"Surely the immigration policies, practices, and sensibilities of the 1800's should apply to current day America" - a dumb person
"Surely these people who came to America as children and only know America, work here, go to school here and contribute to America should be sent back to a life they don't know at all for no legitimate reason" - a dumb person.
"Surely we should arbitrarily ignore/rewrite laws for these people through executive action rather than change the immigration policy through congress as it the entire purpose of the 3-branch system"
Why can't we do both? Why can't we use common sense and allow those people to remain here instead of forcing them back to a life they never knew? While congress tries to tries to work things out why can't we work with these people to help them? Many of them came over as kids under no control of their own, contribute to society and have families of their own. Are we gonna send their entire family back?
For how long should we arbitrarily ignore our own constitution and let the executive branch make new laws instead of congress? It's been almost 6 years.
EDIT: And if you support this, are you willing to also support whatever other executive actions Trump puts into play using the same mechanics as Obama? Because we don't as a country get to allow one president to bypass checks and balances and not another simply based on whether we like the actions they're taking. That's not how government works.
Good luck with all your logic and common sense. ---
