Onearlier this week i spoke the connection between comprehensive Immigration Reform and the crisis we have at our border. Tois the height of hypocrisy talk about trying to do something about Border Security when we cannot even bring comprehensive Immigration Reform to this form floor. Citizenship defined as a status that entails the specific rights, duties, and benefits given to an individual is the final step of ilLegal Immigration process. Since the inception of this country the immigration process has adapted to the evolving situation of the country. Our current immigration system is inherently flawed. 3 of thet poll, 60 public supported congress in taking up Immigration Reform proposals. While the system should be straightforward, problems tend to arise. They have a history of chronic management problems. Between fiscal years 2016 and 2018 the backlog of delayed cases exceeded 5. 6 9 million. What aspects of the immigration system keep it from being effective . We need to make it simpler. It should not be such a difficult process that every day people have to spend thousands of dollars to hire attorneys to figure out how to deal with the immigration process. The systemhe flaws is experiencing is the sheer theme of people crying that government does not have the manpower to process the feel number the sheer number of applications coming in. What powers of the president can be used to affect our immigration system . Enps main have the department of Homeland Security that houses immigration and Customs Enforcement which you might know as ice and also customs and border protection. The executive branch also houses the department of justice, which contains the immigration administrative the president , who is the leader of the executive branch has power in a number of different ways. The first is that obviously he gets to appoint the leaders of the different cabinet agencies. Those things matter because it has been those individual agencies and all of the many hundreds of thousands of people under them that were on the ground making those policies and making a decision that impacted peoples lives. The executive branch should only do things based on laws that are already on the books. They should not create laws or policies outside of the framework of the current laws that are on the book. Every Year Congress passes spending bills that gives certain allocations to the executive branch to execute immigration laws. Harrisvillember the , its significance is that the controversy regarding the u. S. Immigration system is not whether our system needs to change, but rather what the change should look like. Even though the general public believes Immigration Reform is necessary, what does comprehensive Immigration Reform look like . Howhe change would be people come to the United States, a systemic change is how we execute the new policy. Underneath of the scope of policy there are two concepts, meritbased versus family or asylum based immigration. If these concepts are so contradictory what should the primary focus of our immigration system be . Bringing families back thisher moving forward is moving me to look at a mix, where different aspects of the economy and the population they look at the United States and wonder what we need right now. Maybe we have a mixture where we have family reunification as 1 maybe we put in a meritbased system. Positivelyk you can affect the United States why not bring in the best and brightest from around the world i am of the camp that believes that our immigration system is absolutely broken. Neede humanitarian side we to spend a lot of time on doing what this administration has done. All of these programs are forcing people to return to countries that may have never lived in. This is not the america that i think most people want to be. I would say the same thing about refugee admissions. We have the lowest number of refugee admissions in the history of the program, that is something we have to get back up. We need to be able to be a safe haven for people. System is aration complex and divisive issue. If the problems within our system are to be solved, the fundamental question for president ial candidates is this, what would you do for our immigration system to acknowledge reforms and balance the essential aspects of a working, Legal Immigration system. You can watch each winning studentcam documentary online at dentcam our live coverage of response to the coronavirus outbreak watch it any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. Updates from governors and the president , it is all there. Use charts and maps to track the global threat. Cases county by county. The coronavirus webpages your fast and easy way to watch cspan political news, molly back of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporting that the Democratic Convention in milwaukee is being pushed back to august 17 because of the coronavirus. It was scheduled for july 13, but will be held the week of august 17. Coming up we will hear from the louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards as his state sees an coronavirus cases. That is live at 3 30 eastern. Hold ahe president will briefing on coronavirus. We will have live coverage