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Can, if we had a functioning Congress that actually passed material laws. We’ve been trying to pass immigration reform for the last couple of decades.

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Changing laws is irrelevant if the executive chooses to ignore them.

It would be better to actually enforce the immigration laws we have right now, and see where we land. Then make changes from there.

And we would have had bipartisan steps toward it before the last presidential election, if Trump hadn't told Republicans to tank it at the last minute because it hurt his biggest talking point for reelection.

Republicans did not support that bill. A single Republican Senator negotiated it in secret. You guys mischaracterize this bill as some amazing thing that everyone was excited to pass until Trump told them not to. That isn't reality.

You can hear it from the horse's mouth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

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