Congress does need to fix this, but there’s little political incentive for Democrats to do so. They are going to get more mileage out of maintaining the status quo and bashing Trump for i
Trump to Congress: If you want us to stop separating families at the border, then change the law that tells us to
During the Obama years Congress got used to the idea that the president would simply ignore laws he didn’t like, or didn’t agree with, or could get more political mileage out of attacking.
The idea that the president is supposed to enforce all laws on the books, and that problematic laws are the job of Congress to fix, is consistent with the Constitution and with the way things have typically worked, but it’s apparently going to take some readjusting for the Beltway crowd.