I'm submitting this thread fully aware it will be downvoted and I really don't care as it's time for some constructive criticism and tough love for President Trump's actions on immigration and the open borders snakes he has surrounded himself with and letting himself be snow jobbed by the GOPe crowd and pie in the sky libertarians who support open borders.

A reporter for OANN really laid it out best as it's a damning indictment of Trump's failures that I suspect is from his lack of attention to detail and his obsession with building a wall over everything to a point where other key components of the immigration system really suffers like expanded catch and release, more visas for foreign workers and asylum rules being expanded as well to the point where whole groups of people claiming to be families are showing up at our border.

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I can't overstate how incredibly bad the GOP and Trump have been on immigration over the last two years...

Start w/ the GOP. Paul Ryan is a shill for corporations that want cheap labor and open borders... even worse though he believes in this idiotic libertarian notion that all people in their heart want less government... it's not true.

Paul Ryan made no effort to pass a single piece of Trump's immigration reforms or the wall. In his budgets he expanded catch and release and work visas making the situation all the worse. Mitch McConnell is the same in the Senate.

This is the view that a majority of Republicans in Congress have... do what the donors ask, we always need more cheap labor. Some of the worst offenders - Sen. Tillis, Sen. Gardner, Sen. Cramer, Rep. Gonzalez, Rep. McCaul, Rep. Stefanik and so on.

The other really good Republicans like Paul, Lee, etc... they just don't understand this issue. They fall back to their principles... and good luck winning national elections on that.

So yes, Congress has been bad, but Trump hasn't done anything to push them. His administration have been TRULY TERRIBLE.... it bears repeating. TERRIBLE.
Pompeo has refused to classify the Mexican Drug Cartel as a foreign terrorist organization - a bill Chip Roy sponsored (a great rep!) He has refused to punish Mexico for the opioid crisis. The State Dept. hasn't used their power to fullest to stop both the opioid crisis.

Making things worse is the fact that Pompeo has filled State w/ Bush ppl or Obama ppl. An Obama appointee runs our refugee program. Think about that! Mike Pompeo is no friend to the MAGA agenda.

Nielsen is even worse. She has been openly hostile, firing pro-wall MAGA ppl. The DHS. under Nieslen is worse than Obama's DHS. Now she has a whisper campaign against Lee Francis Cisna, one of the only good ppl in the admin working on immigration

Trump also has a problem w/ his legislative director. First he had Marc Short, a Koch Brothers alum who worked on the Stop Trump campaign in 2016. Short bragged in a politico article how he wasn't pushing Congress to accept any immigration changes Trump campaigned on.

Short now works for Pence. So he once again is far too close to the President.

Short's replacement Shahira Knight was pushed by Gen. Kelly, the man who just gloated about how he would have worked for Hillary and how the wall is stupid! (Kelly also got Nielsen appointed to DHS).

No one was worse at putting bad personnel in places than Johnny DeStefano... use to head PPO and brought Never Trumpers into the admin in droves. He now works w/ Kellyanne Conway.

So without a competent staff that's well qualified for the immigration agenda Trump campaigned on... the admin didn't push for immigration reform, for a wall, to even whip the votes for Congress to support the emergency declaration.

Even worse, the judiciary (namely the 9th circuit) are giving away constitutional rights to illegals like they're candy. We are going to have defacto amensty because of our judges and there's no pushback from Congress or the WH.

Lastly the problem w/ Trump supporters is they're unwillingness to criticize their guy. I get it, he's our quarterback, don't boo him, he's trying... I'm sorry but no. He's caved a lot. With Texas going blue in 10 yrs. or less we don't need cheerleaders we need leaders

Any candidate going into 2020 needs to understand this issue. It's about time the GOP base understands why their party is failing them so miserably on their most important issue.

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Trump needs to remember that he wins when he bullies the GOP, not cower and cave to them at every turn on this issue. It's why he won the nomination in the first place.

I'll just state the obvious here. Trump does not have real institutional control over his administration pushing the immigration agenda he campaigned on and has staffed it with people who do not support it and for some reason has made no efforts to fix it.

Biggest example of that is Trump falling for McConnell and Ryan's lies that he would get his wall if he would just sign this bill or that bill or just wait after a specific election or just wait for the lame duck.

Also, I've been seeing reports that Jared Kushner has been pushing for more visas for foreign workers and more expansions in catch and release. That is not what Trump campaigned on.

Ivanka's husband needs to stick to mideast peace and working trade deals with foreign countries or better yet, just go back to New York.