Chuck Schumer actually said...

the current DHS policies are systematically weakening, I think, our interior enforcement, and we need to talk about that.

the leadership did not come from the executive branch. It came from Congress and the American people who insisted that these things be done.

this country is a Nation also of laws, and we cannot refuse to enforce those laws.

That, to me, is a European model of governance that is very threatening because there, big is not necessarily bad.