[Tammy8]

When is the last time every policy put in place on any issue been immediately stopped by a judge popping up? How would anyone plan for that?

Our immigration laws are actually for the most part pretty seriously written and if enforced would be fairly effective. There has been little to no enforcement. Who knew enforcing them would be met with complete resistance by the courts?

[zeestephen]

Re: When is the last time every policy put in place on any issue been immediately stopped by a judge popping up? How would anyone plan for that?

Well, specifically on the border issue, Trump could always try 8 U.S.C. §1182(f):

“Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

Or, on the DACA issue, Trump could write this two sentence Executive Order:

“According to the exact language in the Immigration and Nationality Act, the DACA kids are unlawfully present in the USA. Therefore, I order the Secretary of Homeland Security to remove them”

An Executive Order like that could not even be reviewed by a federal court.

Or, Trump could write an Executive Order implementing Universal E-Verify. The statutes that support Universal E-Verify were passed in the Reagan Amnesty of 1986. Since then, there have been multiple agency regulations written for Universal E-Verify, and one successful Supreme Court case for Universal E-Verify.

Problem is, Trump is an immigration scam artist.

He does not want to stop massive immigration, he does not want to deport the DACA kids unless they are violent criminals, and he does not want Universal E-Verify.

Instead, he essentially begs the Democrat Party to seek nation wide injunctions, and when they do, Trump sends pro-immigration, Deep State, career DOJ lawyers into court to “defend” his case.

Bottom Line - on every significant immigration metric (except UN Refugees), Trump's numbers are within plus or minus 10% of Obama’s numbers.