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[–] 18226997? ago 

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.