Our system of government as designed has completely broken down, and, at least if history is any guide, is going to change, and right soon.
There have been too many laws made by the President and by the courts, all unconstitutional, of course, to be undone by a righteous President and righteous judges (if we ever get any). "Combinations too powerful to be suppressed" have arisen to defend this enormous body of non-constitutional and extraconstitutional law, and the border displays a perfect example.
To begin:
Our immigration laws are not Obama's laws, or Trump's laws. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE'S LAWS. Passed by both Houses of Congress, signed by Presidents - if self government is possible in the United States, these laws are as close to perfection as we can get.
But what do we see?
These laws are opposed by powerful secular and religious interests, The reasons they are opposed are familiar and do not require restatement.
The People could change these laws at any time by simple legislation - BUT CONGRESS CANNOT ACT, because it is paralyzed by bribes and by threats.
So the pressure to undo our perfectly valid, legitimate legal structure flows through the White House and the courts, and our laws (again, made by the People's representatives) crumble under the onslaught.
The situation on the border is repeated over and over, in environmental "law", in race relations, in our schools, in relations between the sexes, and so on and so on.
The idea of a national Legislature representing the People and the States to reconcile diverse interests has failed, and failed decisively.
Our Sulla, our Cromwell, or our Franco, our Pinochet, has not appeared - but he's been born and has probably reached adulthood.
Change is inevitable - but we probably won't like it.
<>The idea of a national Legislature representing the People and the States to reconcile diverse interests has failed, and failed decisively.<>
The Senate stopped representing states 105 years ago. It is doing what the Progressive promoters of the 17th Amendment intended.