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It may also be illegal: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/trumps-immigrat...

The Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that had structured American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or residents of the U.S.

http://library.uwb.edu/Static/USimmigration/1965_immigration...

Executive Orders are there to fill in the implementation details that congress leaves out.. they can't override laws entirely.

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Every year it seems what presidents can get away with using executive orders gets more expansive.

Democracy is not a stable form of government in the long term. There are a lot more former democracy's than current ones, and the US seems to be heading down a very dark path.

So what are the Democrats doing about this. The silence from that group is deafening.

Chuck Schumer made a statement yesterday. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/schumer-tears-are-running-...

Media might not be covering their response more? But, I don't know what they could do in Congress.

Well, that site is bad. Clicked on the search button because the link does not exist, and got taken to another site

Lol, blame the Democrats for not doing what? The Rs control the White House and both branches of congress.

I don't think the OP was blaming the Democrats, but rather asking the legitimate question of whether (and how) they are planning to resist.

So far, their actions have been rather dismal. For instance, they've voted for most if not all of Trump's cabinet appointments.

Yes, if a Democratic President was doing this, the din from the other camp would be very load. Not a beep from Chuck Schumer or Nancy Peloci?

Yes, the Republicans complained incessantly every time Obama broke the law with EOs. Nobody cared. Now the shoe is on the other foot and you're wondering why Republicans aren't leaping to help you?

That's the interesting thing, maybe Trump won because he was a smooth talker but why did the Democrats lose all those seats in the legislature? Does it just mean Dems never even voted? I guess why bother putting the shoes on when CNN and NBC have been showing a solid blue map for months on end and experts discussing grabbing of genital parts for days and days.

In all the discussions I heard so far on Facebook and media I noticed a lot blame, name-calling, despair and so on. But I haven't seen enough solid self-reflections. Specifically focusing on why did the Democrats stay home that day. Without it we will have another Trump and then another ...

The rational thing to do for any single voter is to not bother voting; and the US doesn't make it easy for people to vote, especially with election day not being a weekend or a public holiday and requiring most of the day.

In the US the "blue map" does really matter except psychologically since everyone votes in a specific state, but the predictions from the media probably didn't help.

Hopefully Trump will drive democratic midterm voter turn out.

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