Astounding. They want to legalize the Dreamers while simultaneously not doing anything to secure the border so that we end up with more Dreamers. They don't care about protecting the American people.
“I worked to get the six-month extension of DACA. I ordered that. I managed that. And everyone has thanked me for that,” he told the group.
Oh really?
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the original sponsor of the Dream Act that would permanently legalize at least 690,000 dreamers, asked Kelly to clarify Trump’s definition of a border wall.
“Certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed,” Kelly said.
No, no one expected a wall over mountains or rivers or other natural barriers. Nothing he said was uninformed.
“A concrete wall from sea to shining sea” is not going to happen, Kelly said. Instead, “a physical barrier in many places” is what the administration is requesting. Kelly used the term “physical barrier” several times during the meeting, attendees said.
Kelly goes on to say that there are of course natural barriers but says we need a barrier for 700 of the 2,100 miles. That leaves 1,400 miles without a barrier. I don't know how he defines barrier either. He said concrete would be good in "certain places" and manpower and drones for other parts. Based on my read, if you need manpower, then people may be able to cross. It seems to me you would need a wall.
Kelly also said that there will be no wall “that Mexico will pay for.”
Oh really?
After serving as homeland security secretary and commander of U.S. military forces in Latin America, Kelly told lawmakers that he has helped Trump “evolve on issues of the wall.”
“I had a lot to do with that,” he said of Trump’s change in position regarding border security.
“He campaigned against DACA,” Kelly said of Trump, but since then, “he’s lightened up.”
Oh really?
Once the issue of dreamers and border security is resolved, Kelly said during the meeting, he expects the administration and Congress to work together on the future of people with temporary protected status. In recent weeks, the administration has announced the end of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua who are living in the United States after natural disasters or violence in those countries.
Oh really?
Kelly had to know these folks would sprint to the WaPo to spill. The article also notes that Kelly and Kirstjen Nielsen "have been privately complaining" about Trump's plans to build a wall." That's not how they sound publicly, but Kelly's comments in the meeting today where he brags about making Trump "evolve" on DACA, seems to say we need less wall than we probably do, and then says we are going to permanently seek a path for those with TPS are not things that compute with what Trump promised during the campaign or that help him with his base at all when they get out there.
I wonder what Trump would think of this.
Either
1. Trump has a knack for hiring utterly disloyal people (perhaps because there IS no one in Washington who knows the meaning of the word).
or . . .
2. This is fake news, which the scumbag media is simply throwing out there in yet another attempt to portray the Trump administration in a bad light.
Kelly...you’re FIRED!
Kelly is a swamp creature.
Trump needs to make clear who is boss.
Washington Compost.....don’t believe a word of it!
I’m thinking Kelly is the one who is “uninformed.”
General Kelly,
When in your military career did you ever tell a reporter that your Commander was “ uninformed”?
In fact. When did you ever agree to meet with a pack of civilians antagonistic ( to put it mildly) to the Commander who hired you and trusted you as a gatekeeper?
I heard it and he was clearly referring to natural barrier exclusion from a physical wall— like the peak of a mountain or raging rapids. I dont agree with his misconception on the desert)He said the minimum needed is $20 billion. I understand the WALL better in that context and I think Kelly . I think he was fine in his position. I support General Kelly and as long as we get 100% of the wall for 100% of the daca deal, chain reduced to nuclear family , no more lottery ever, Im in
The United States can never build a complete canal from across Panama from sea to sea, over mountains, lakes, rivers.
What a putz.
We can build it, we need to build, we should build it. Sea to Sea. Complete. No gaps for any reason. Access roads for easy patrols. Tunnel monitors. A real, physical, manned, comprehensive, modern border. That is what is required.
I don’t believe a word out of their filthy lying mouths.
President Trump. This assclown Kelly is stabbing you and your voters in the back. Please do the right thing and give him the bum’s rush. He needs to be shown the door.
The part that won’t be blocked by a wall will be blocked by a fence.
Is this confirmed? This is disgusting. Basically he’s the President’s schedule runner. He has ZERO business injecting his damned policy opinions into the operations.
He is a glorified secretary. It’s only a recent development to even have one. If this is true, then fire this gatekeeping globlist putz.
But once again, is there a source for this -besides- the word of a democrat?
Wa Po = Fake News
The thing about the liberal media is that they will twist a “yes” to mean “no” and vice-versa.
More fake news from the WP!
It’s all fake news: from the Fox News Story: As for the wall, Kelly said experts talked to Trump about how there “are places where, geographically, a wall would not be realistic.”.....Asked about Trump’s famous pledge that Mexico would pay for the wall, Kelly said: “In one way or another, it’s possible that we could get the revenue from Mexico but not directly from their government.”
Trump said we don’t need a wall in places where natural formations serves as a barrier. In those places you need technology to watch. But there will still be plenty of uncrossable wall.
I wonder who told the paper what Kelly said?