A promise delayed does not mean a promise broken.
What would you do? Trump repeals this program AT THIS POINT, and what does he give up in exchange?
1: Deporting felons.
2: Deporting ‘refugees.’
3: Chunks of ICE dedicated to border security in order to go after them.
4: Support from squishy Rs in Congress, which costs us:
4a: Obamacare repeal.
4b: Tax reform.
4c: Supreme Court nominees.
4d: Lower court nominees.
The President is not a dictator and he can’t break the laws of thermodynamics either; he has LIMITED resources and has to choose how to dedicate them.
What would I do? I wouldn’t have promised to “immediately” stop something I intended to actually delay stopping. He said he’d stop it “immediately” but somehow in your and others’ minds now “immediately” doesn’t mean “immediately” it means sometime down the road.
Ok. Fine. Just don’t try to sell *me* this line because I’m not buying at any price.
I never believed he’d stop either EO to be quite honest so I’m pleased he nixed DAPA. I’ll give him credit there. And I heard him say on multiple occasions we have to have a heart, we will let the good ones back in, etc, so it’s certainly not a surprise he doesn’t appear to be rescinding DACA anytime soon. Not a surprise at all.
But he never should have said something if he didn’t actually intend to do it. Again, “immediately” means “immediately”, not months if not years down the road when it becomes easier to do.
Why can’t you just admit that he hasn’t come through on the promise of “immediately”? I can’t for the life of me understand why that’s so hard to admit. It isn’t hard to admit for anyone who’s more interested in the truth than winning an argument.