The law gives us an answer to the immigration question: the federal government is required to secure the border. Congress can argue within itself about how to secure the border, but current law is clear that it must be done.
There is no bill coming up for a vote in Congress that would change the law as it currently stands. No one is even trying to change the law. Instead, they are taking the easy way out and neutralizing the laws they don’t like. As a citizen, you and I cannot cherry-pick which laws we want to follow and which we’d rather skip. To give legislators that privilege is profoundly un-democratic.
Any rule without enforcement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. We respect “no parking” signs because if we don’t, we’ll get ticketed. We file our taxes annually, not always because we think the government makes good use of it, but because it’s required by law. If no one ever got a parking ticket, or was caught cheating on her taxes, millions more people would break those rules, emboldened by the knowledge that they’ll never get caught.
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