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Are the Dems going to be willing to roll over and let Trump have his way in order show how bad his policies are... or are they going to be like last time with the "resistance".
I suspect they will take whatever steps they can to oppose his policies. That's part of their job, after all - even when the opposing party controls the White House, elected Democrats were elected to their jobs as well, and have a mandate to pursue the goals that they were elected to pursue as well.
For things like immigration enforcement, the President has a lot of existing authority to take action against illegal immigrants that have been in the country for a while. Unlike many new/recent arrivals, who are still pending the disposition of their initial claims to lawfully remain in the country, more of those folks will have either evaded the system altogether or have jumped out of the system (ie. have a deportation order that they are avoiding). Against that population, the main check on the President is funding. For his "Day One" stuff, Trump has signaled he'll use emergency authority to divert funds from other programs - which can probably be challenged in court, though how successful such challenges will be remains to be seen. But I expect that Trump will get a shirt-ton of funding for his immigration restrictionism in whatever reconciliation package gets out of Congress in the spring, so that would be a short-lived victory even if achieved.
But if DHS agents start swarming the almond groves in California, there's not a whole lot that California can do to stop it....
