Beautiful People,
Last Thursday, the House voted to embrace the legal challenge to President Obama's executive actions on immigration. In 2012, the Senate approved a bipartisan broad overhaul of immigration legislation, but the proposal stalled in the House.

Two years later, after it became clear that the legislation will not pass, the President announced a series of executive actions to allow people who have been in the United States more than five years and who have children in the country legally to "come out of the shadows and get right with the law." He also announced the expansion of a program that affects people who came here illegally as children.

Soon after, twenty-six states, have filed a lawsuit challenging the President’s actions, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments next month and possibly rule in June.

Regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling, an executive order on extremely controversial issues such as immigration, Planned Parenthood, gun control, healthcare should never be forced.

I am still deliberating as to whether executive orders are a troubling sign of weakness and despair or a sign of power and strength. However, when it comes to those issues, an executive order is a temporary fix to profound problems; ergo, it is destined to fail.

Not so long ago, there were conservative democrats and liberal republicans, but today this overlap has vanished, and the continental divide feeds into two different ideologies.

But America should know better. Congress must find ways to bridge differences for the people. We cannot agree on every issue but we ought to at least negotiate in good faith. Truly listen to the other side, be open, and collaborate for the greater good.

This approach is being used in relationships, the classroom, business, and it should also be useful in politics.

XO,
Sharon