Is it purely because of the executive branch though? Or does congress or the senate have some say (even if just by veto)?
It's the judges (mostly district courts) blocking most of what little Trump attempts to do, as well as what was already on the books years before he came into office. Take the IIRAIRA for example, passed while Clinton was president, it has what most normal Americans would call sensible border enforcement, i.e. Aliens are fined for attempting to enter, those already here illegally cannot attempt to come again for ten years and most importantly, INS (disestablished in 2003, also a part of the problem it that it's split up between three agencies, ICE, Customs and Border Patrol and US Customs and Immigration) agents could decide an illegals case without judicial oversight, freeing up the backlog that allows the judge to give the illegal a court date, which 90% don't show up and are never seen again (until they kill someone, are arrested and given deportation orders, which they also don't abide by). Courts basically say now we have to review every case individually, they can't even be told to stay in Mexico while we process their fabricated asylum claims. They rush the border agents, allowing the drug runners and smugglers to pass while the agents are busy processing them.
I'm convinced that if orchard owners, dairy farmers, and all other employers of illegal labor were actually penalized, we wouldn't have nearly as big of an illegal immigration problem.
True, also they fact that they are allowed to use our hospitals, schools, and collect gibs is an abomination.
Is it purely because of the executive branch though? Or does congress or the senate have some say (even if just by veto)?
I haven't brushed up on my civics in a while
Oh, by the way, since we're talking about illegal immigration, I should point out that one option that neither democrats nor republicans ever speak about is the fact that local law enforcement rarely ever punish the employers of illegal migrants.
In fact, I remember working out of The Dalles Oregon, and my boss (a Mexican) pointed out the exact spot where the cops park ONCE a year at the end of cherry picking season to pick up laborers and haul them back to where ever, only for a new batch of workers to come in the next spring. All this despite most people in the area being "conservative". It's also really easy to find cocaine and heroin in that part of Oregon. I'm convinced that if orchard owners, dairy farmers, and all other employers of illegal labor were actually penalized, we wouldn't have nearly as big of an illegal immigration problem.
"at this point, what difference does it make?"
Even if "detained/arrested", they just get turned over to BP/ICE which currently has NOTHING about deporting anyone. Its all just first step to getting gibs and permanent legal status, and even if "not legal" NOTHING happens.
This is ALL on Trump. There shouldn't have been anything for these guys to do after Feb 2017. There should've been "changing of the guard" ceremony where Trump thanked these guys for "holding the line" and then a bunch of regular US Army and NG units would officially get their orders.
Trump is first real Clown POTUS. Not even Obama was this Clown, ever.
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Of course it's fucking related, moron. My point is, he made it easy for them to justify it.