Posted on 01/13/2018 9:04:59 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Everyone knows something has to be done for America's DACA kids.
Everyone with a good heart or a working brain knows it's not their fault their parents sneaked them into the country when they were kids under 16.
It's true that by law they are illegal immigrants.
But most DACA kids have grown up to become good, law-abiding Americans.
They've gone to school here. They've worked and paid taxes here. They've even served in our military.
Everyone except a few people on the far fringe knows it'd be wrong to deport these 800,000 so-called "Dreamers" -- now or in the future.
As we saw in Washington this week, DACA kids have become a bargaining chip for President Trump in his efforts to get Congress to build a border wall and reform immigration policy.
President Obama created America's DACA kids by executive order in 2012 with his Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, which delayed the deportation of "Dreamers" who signed up for it for two years.
President Trump has already announced his administration's plans to phase out DACA, though this week a federal judge temporarily blocked that executive decision until a bunch of lawsuits challenging it are settled.
Trump and his Republican allies say they want to extend protections for the "Dreamers" as part of a larger legislative bill that also funds the wall and ends chain immigration.
Democrats in Congress say to Trump, "OK, but extend DACA's protections first, then we'll deal with the border wall and other stuff later."
But already it's a perfect example of how bad the Republicans are at educating the public about what they do in Washington and why they do it the way they do.
In this case, Republicans need to explain to the country why they are insisting on Congress doing DACA and immigration reform together.
The reason is because Republicans remember how badly they were burned by Democrats in 1986, after my father signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, aka the Simpson-Mazzoli Act.
Part one of Simpson-Mazzoli allowed 3 million illegal immigrants to have a pathway to citizenship. That's the only part of the bill people remember today - the so-called "Reagan Amnesty."
But nearly everyone - particularly the mainstream liberal media that thinks American political history started when they woke up this morning - forgets about the second part.
Part 2 of Simpson-Mazzoli was an agreement to secure the southern border - which was never implemented in 1986 or to this day.
That's the memory Republicans are still haunted by today. They have good reason to not trust Democrats to keep their word on border security if they negotiate a two-step DACA-immigration deal.
Now it's up to the president, the speaker of the House and every important Republican in Washington to explain to the public why it's so important for DACA and border security to be done together.
The mainstream media will never fairly or fully explain the Republicans' position on their own, but if President Trump starts talking and tweeting about it, they'll have to.
If Trump can bring enough attention to the GOP side of the immigration debate, a win-win bipartisan deal might be possible.
The Republicans will have to cave on DACA and the Democrats will have to cave on the border wall.
President Trump has already said he'll be willing to take the political hit to get an immigration reform deal done. Let him.
He doesn't care anyway. He can say or do just about anything.
The worst that can happen to him is that in 2020 he has to go back to being a billionaire.
“SEND THEM, THEIR CRIMINAL PARENTS,SIBLINGS, AND EVERYONE ELSE BACK TO WHATEVER HELLHOLES THEY WERE BORN IN! “
You mean Shitholes
Okay...SHITHOLE!
Michael Reagan Blasts Trump: My Father Would Not Support This Campaign ...
Fox News › insider › 2016/10/03
Oct 3, 2016 · The son of former President Ronald Reagan said today that he can no longer support Donald Trump and that he believes his parents would have taken
I don’t give a rats ass about these illegal bastards and neither does Trump.
No citizenship PERIOD.
Maybe a green card if their PARENTS ARE DEPORTED IN EXCHANGE.
Let the goddamned communists make a deal with the MARINES, ICE, and CBP.
The FBI, CIA, State Department, etc, are NOT under Trumps control.
Time for the Iron Fist.
Michael R. is a #NeverTrump globalist.
The average age of a DACA recipient is 24. They can be up to 37 years of age. We are no longer talking about children.
Small window remains to hit the American left so hard that they will never recover.
Time to start the final assault on the Domestic Enemy, or be defeated forever.
This is WAR.
Only question is can the Republic get burnt...
Any kind of DACA deal that doesn't start with "mass deportation" burns the Nation forever...
I don’t blame Reagan for the failure to secure the border during the end of his term. It was the responsibility of his successors to do so, and they furked it up.
Giving DACA immigrants a path to citizenship is a mistake.
Bringing in hundreds of thousands of additional immigrants as cheap farm labor is a mistake.
Time to rethink the green card issue. The DACA people, at the most, should get yellow cards (temporary work permits, no citizenship unless they leave the U.S. and get in line behind the other legal applicants).
If they commit another crime, they should get a red card (automatic and permanent ejection from the country). It works for soccer, so it should be easy for them to understand.
That might be fine for him but it would be a disaster for the country having President Oprah or whoever. KAGA!!!!
Indeed, President Reagan’s soft stance on immigration is part of the unholy mess that President Trump inherited!!!
Given the fact that Reagan was a two-term governor in California, I dare say he’s constantly rolling over in his grave, knowing that his once “Golden State” has basically become no less than a Sh*thole!!!
It’s a pity that Michael cannot comprehend that reality.
Absolutely, 1000% correct!!!
President Trump is this country’s LAST HOPE to rediscover her greatness—and anybody who doesn’t realize and accept that fact of life is totally ignorant and insane!!!
WTF?? JUST WHO CARES ABOUT THE UNIPARTY GOP. It should be obvious that our nation and it’s working people will get screwed. And someone is suppose to care about the GOP? THIS ORGANIZATION IS HALF THE PROBLEM THAT GAVE US THIS IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE! Again, I repeat myself, WTF???
They've gone to school here. They've worked and paid taxes here. They've even served in our military. <<
Great..all of them that have a DD214 a HS diploma.. can speak fluent english...have proof of paid taxes more then welfare and no criminal record can get a green card.....the other 780 thousand will have to go back home...I could live with that...
I would like to see a deal that, if we MUST take “care” of the dreamers, predicates citizenship in future years on the amount of taxes they pay directly (minus any welfare or other dole payments they receive). Start a business - your business taxes count, as do your personal taxes. Work for a company - your personal (federal only) taxes count.
Fall into negatives after a short grace period, get deported.
Fail to reach the required value to the United States, get deported.
If the dreamers are so valuable, they should be willing to prove it - one case at a time.
I say we refer to this grou0 as “Schemers”.
Rubbish.
Meanwhile, the admin has apparently reinstated DACA without getting anything in return:
https://nypost.com/2018/01/14/citizenship-and-immigration-services-resumes-accepting-daca-renewals/
NO to DACA Sh$thole.
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