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As soon as the Trump administration adopted zero tolerance policy requiring law enforcement to prosecute all illegal immigrants at the border, it became clear that officials werent prepared to deal with the crush of kids that would find themselves under their supervision. Nor were they able implement policy in a humane way.

Family separation is callous and ineffective, but its existence doesnt excuse the ginned-up moral panic, the pious grandstanding, or the historically illiterate associations to Nazi death camps unleashed by its critics. Nor does it excuse the fact that Democrats have shown zero interest in dealing with the undermining problems that propel these situations.

Why wont the GOP stand up to Donald Trump?! is the well-known refrain from those who lock-stepped their way through the eight-year hard-left turn of Barack Obama. Yet, every Republican member of the Senate claimed to support legislation to fix existing laws that separate children from parents who are caught crossing into the United States illegally even as the president defended it. Ted Cruz, despite criticism from the president, has proposed, perhaps overly optimistic, legislation expediting asylum claims by adding more immigration judges and prioritizing families to be processed first.

So maybe the House (also working on legislation) and the Senate wont be able to come to an agreement. Or maybe Trump will veto the bill. We dont know. Not that any of it is going to matter if Democrats block the legislation, which is what they were promising to do before even seeing it.

There are so many obstacles to legislation, and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is a co-sponsor of proposed Democrat legislation to supposedly fix the problem, stated. Legislation is not the way to go here when its so easy for the president to sign it.

Now, I realize Democrats have gotten used to the idea of a president ruling with a pen while concocting immigration law unilaterally. But even though Trump acquiesced to pressure and signed an executive order, the subsequent action will not be easy. Democrats know that the administration could be stopped by the courts, and that the long-standing Flores consent decree complicates efforts to enforce border laws and keep families together. They know that only legislation can allow both to happen. Theyre more interested in returning to the status quo.

Someone should ask leading Democrats if they believe any illegal immigrant bringing children should be detained at the border for any reason whatsoever? Because Democrats, who ignore the moral cost associated with thousands of children wandering over the border, have yet to explain how we can possibly know if these kids are going to ok if we have no way of ensuring their parents compliance to a court?

Someone should ask Schumer if he opposes the child separation policy or a zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. Has any Democrat clarified why the latter position doesnt incentivize more migrants to bring children (sometimes their own, and sometimes not) on the dangerous trek over the border rather than to a ports of entry? Theres been a spike of families and unaccompanied children at the border over the past five years. Claiming amnesty after apprehension is basically a get-in-free card.

Someone should ask Democrats what kind of illegal immigrant they believe doesnt deserve de facto asylum. Im well aware of that most of people flowing in from South America are escaping poverty and violence, and highly sympathetic to their plight. But I assume migrants who properly ask for asylum are in the same situation other than being punished for following rules.

Im a pretty liberal guy on immigration open to more asylum seekers, bigger immigration, more temporary workers, etc. But Im not a huge fan of chaos. And I suspect Im not alone. Yet, we have Democrats and activists calling for the elimination of ICE. We have a Democratic Party unwilling to make any compromise on the issue even when we faced with a surge of migrant children. As Gabriel Malor pointed out in The Federalist this week, the proposed legislation cosponsored by every Senate Democrat was so carelessly written that it would prevent federal law enforcement agencies almost anywhere inside the United States from arresting and detaining criminals who are parents having nothing to do with unlawfully crossing the border and seeking asylum.

Its neither healthy for the country, nor the people who come here seeking a better life, to be thrown into a system that doesnt work. Nor, as we increasingly see in Europe, is it politically tenable to rely on emotionalism as a means of ignoring all law.

(This piece has been edited to reflect Trumps executive order.)

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