> the executive branch followed certain norms around this, until this administration
Which norms? Which administration didn't act differently than all others? Reagan firing the FAA unionizers was a new one.
Obama said he couldn't “waive away the law Congress put in place.” DHS went and legalized a few million anyway, years later. Sounds very familiar, but somehow different?
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it sounds awfully revisionist.
And the President is also in charge of local waste disposal, as we all know.