MY TOP 4 TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS WEEK'S TRUMP-INDUCED DREAMER NIGHTMARE
11. Jeff Sessions is not only cold, smug and heartless, he also lies.
I may have cracked a molar grinding my teeth watching Sessions try not
to smile as he gleefully read the statement that essentially ripped the heart
out of 800,000 young people. But what struck
me the most were the blatant nativist lies and misinformation he spewed. To name just a few:
“DACA…contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border.” Really?
So the surge didn’t start well before DACA due to the extreme violence
and abject poverty in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala? Or maybe those kids were just clairvoyant,
and they saw DACA coming years in advance.
If the kids did in fact know about DACA, they would have known that they
didn’t qualify unless they had been in the U.S. before 2007.
DACA granted immigrants “benefits, including participation in
the Social Security program…” This is patently false,
unless by participation you mean paying in to social security with no ability
to draw from it for the foreseeable future, if ever. Also, DACA recipients are not eligible for
any other public benefits.
DACA denied “jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by
allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”
Hmmm. Isn’t unemployment at a
near all-time low? Hasn’t it decreased
every year since DACA was introduced?
Also, why do I still see help wanted signs nearly everywhere I go? Finally, how could you possibly prove
this? Shouldn’t you have some sort of
factual basis for your assertion?
22. Trump is even less of a leader than I thought, and I did not give him any
credit to begin with. First, he didn’t even have the huevos to be
the one to make the announcement rescinding DACA. Instead he sent Sessions, who I’m sure was
volunteering with his hand raised high like a third grade class
brown-noser. Coward. Second, he punted. Rather than take responsibility and address
the issue head on, he passed the buck to congress. That way he can reap all the praise if
congress is able to do something, but none of the blame if they fail. He doesn’t risk ruffling the feathers of his
30 percent base, and can even blame congress to those from his base if a Dream
Act passes. Rather than take a stand and
do the right thing, as a leader would, Trump wrapped himself in bubble wrap.
33. Trump has no clue what he just did. After feeling the
heat from the national response to rescinding DACA, Trump tweeted that if
congress was unable to pass anything in six months, he would revisit the
issue? I don’t think he even knows what
he signed, or what it means to terminate DACA.
Does he not realize that he just stated that Obama’s executive order was
unconstitutional, thus not valid or legal?
So what is he going to do in six months if congress doesn’t act, issue
an executive order reinstating DACA? But
you just said such an executive order isn’t legal, so…? Also, Trump is telling DACA people they
shouldn’t be worried, they will be taken care of, meanwhile, his agency, USCIS,
is telling DACA recipients they should use what little time they have left to
make plans to leave the U.S. Trump, take
a step back and “[l]ook what ya did ya little jerk.” (Borrowed from the mean uncle in Home
Alone.) Better yet, read what you sign
and think things through before you act.
44. Dreamers are even more awesome than I thought, and that is saying something.
As soon as the initial shock of sadness and uncertainty subsided, the
fearless Dreamers took to the streets, airwaves, television channels, and
social media to share their stories and support each other. They acted and continue to act with bravery,
a unity of purpose, and pride. Hearing
more and more of their stories inspire me to be a better American. They are tenacious, ambitious, take nothing
for granted, work exceptionally hard and accomplish great things. I hope my kids exhibit these American traits
to the same extent as the Dreamers.
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