I am not a right-wing zealot, nor a left-wing revolutionary — just an ordinary American with some views that lean right and others that lean left. But when I step back and examine the current state of immigration in the U.S., I can’t help but feel a deep sense of frustration. Not at the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents carrying out their duties, nor at the Americans protesting what they view as government overreach, and not at the administration for enforcing laws it campaigned on.

My frustration lies squarely with Congress.

Elected lawmakers take to cable news to denounce the actions of the executive branch while conveniently ignoring the fact that it is their own legislation being enforced.

Immigration and Custom Enforcement and the Homeland Security Department are implementing laws Congress passed, many of them years ago.

If the system feels cruel or outdated, the power to fix it does not lie with agents on the ground or even entirely with the president. It lies with Congress. Yet, rather than work toward........

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