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Trump defends immigration proposal against 'amnesty' criticism from conservatives
The Hill ^ | January 20, 2019 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 01/20/2019 9:15:10 AM PST by 4Runner

In a series of tweets, Trump chastised Democrats for dismissing his plan, and attempted to assuage immigration hard-liners who likened the administration's latest proposal to amnesty for immigrants already in the country illegally.

"No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer," Trump tweeted. "It is a 3 year extension of DACA. Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on immigration or something else. Likewise there will be no big push to remove the 11,000,000 plus people who are here illegally-but be careful Nancy!"

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Eisenhower administration's "Operation Wetback" removed over a million unlawfully present aliens in 1954.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

61 posted on 01/20/2019 10:10:52 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Snickering Hound

“You’re trying to reason with the personality cult”

Yeah, that darn “personality cult” that got you guys this far, while you all would have tossed the 2016 election and would be shaking your fists at the PC screen over Hillary’s news SCOTUS pick like impotent rag dolls while you would have gotten actual amnesty for all 20+ million illegals 2 years ago.

Must suck to live in such times where you can have the luxury of having this be the thing you all are seriously complaining about.


62 posted on 01/20/2019 10:11:18 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yes, Trump can’t just remove them. There is due process and a many years backlog of immigration cases and with catch and release many of the arrested are never to be seen again.

If he just throws them out like Eisenhower, 9th Circuit will stay, not to mention weeks long bad press that he is a dicator and not following the rule of law, and dems will likely talk impeachment 24/7.


63 posted on 01/20/2019 10:11:44 AM PST by springwater13
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To: proust
Personal attacks are not allowed on FR.

BS. It depends on who's doing the attacks. I'm personally attacked on a regular basis. But that's OK, no problem, as it's a clear indicator I'm over the target.☺

64 posted on 01/20/2019 10:12:44 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: VanDeKoik
Yeah, that darn “personality cult” that got you guys this far, while you all would have tossed the 2016 election and would be shaking your fists at the PC screen over Hillary’s news SCOTUS pick like impotent rag dolls while you would have gotten actual amnesty for all 20+ million illegals 2 years ago.

Would be nice if the personality cult would hold Trump to his campaign promises instead of just trying to one up each other about how much they support him.

65 posted on 01/20/2019 10:14:35 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: 4Runner

Guess what. None will be deported, Build the wall, 2020 election depend on Trump keeping Gov closed until Dems cave. But they wont Gov stays closed until election.


66 posted on 01/20/2019 10:15:41 AM PST by QuigleyDU
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To: Spiridon
One HUGE advantage of this deal is that Congress would have to get their fingerprints all over the DACA deal. In order to get President Trump to sign the legislation into law, that would mean 1) make the Obama EO obsolete and 2) have Congress put a deadline on how long the DACA's have protection under the law.

Of course, that assumes that President Trump would add requirements like that in exchange for his signature. Watching the Dems codify the termination date would be a great time to invest in popcorn futures.

67 posted on 01/20/2019 10:17:16 AM PST by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Ike's ‘Operation Wetback’ (imagine that being used today) had general support of a majority of the political class and Americans. Harry Truman's INS had done a lot of the operational planning and the Dems also wanted this done. The Korean War was over, the need for masses of workers now while rapidly expanding the armed forces and drawing on the smallest pool of draft eligibles (those born in the Great Depression) which made looking the other way about border jumpers a pragmatic solution n longer was valid. The labor unions were exerting pressure on the Dems to deport illegals who were then , as now, acting as a wage deflator. Even the black ‘civil rights’ organizations were quietly but persistently pressing for a crackdown on illegals as they would work for even less than black laborers and gave no backtalk as they were here illegally. Ike fully agreed and the size of the illegal problem was growing exponentially. So he put retired fire eater Lt Gen Joseph (Jumping Joe) Link in charge of INS and told him to execute the operation as though he were executing an o plan on the battlefield. It worked and the plan was executed with such dispatch and ‘zeal’ that illegals thought long and hard about coming to the land of the big BX. There is no national consensus today and more than half the political class want the ‘demographic’ changed for a variety of reasons.
68 posted on 01/20/2019 10:17:53 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: springwater13

So..he should do then?


69 posted on 01/20/2019 10:18:10 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: 4Runner

If you’re in boat with water flooding in, you have to stop the water FIRST. Otherwise you’ll die trying to bail it out. Hello??

Those in country are NOT a priority. Stopping the flood is paramount.


70 posted on 01/20/2019 10:18:38 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: springwater13

So..he should do IT then?


71 posted on 01/20/2019 10:18:42 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: springwater13
Yes, Trump can’t just remove them.

Yes, he can remove them.

There is due process and a many years backlog of immigration cases and with catch and release many of the arrested are never to be seen again.

That is related to illegals and their asylum cases when they first breach the border. There is nothing stopping POTUS from using existing immigration enforcement laws from removing illegals.

If he just throws them out like Eisenhower

Please, stop using the language of the Left.
Simply enforcing immigration laws on the books is "not throwing them out." When word of Eisenhower cracking down on illegals hit, many other illegals left on their own free will.

9th Circuit will stay, not to mention weeks long bad press that he is a dicator and not following the rule of law, and dems will likely talk impeachment 24/7.

I don't care about the media or what they're going to say about Trump. Trump can enforce existing laws to remove illegals, which will actually light a fire under Dems and change the asylum and other loopholes.

72 posted on 01/20/2019 10:19:01 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Everything. Obama and his party did his best to radicalize people against “whitey”. The country is not the same now as it was then.

The country back then thought more like one people, had more in common with each other. The minority folks that were here thought “American” first, and other things second.

There are blocks of people of various races that are embittered thanks to democrat/liberal brainwashing and manipulation.

Assimilation is now NOT the goal (from the Left’s perspective), but the forming of pissed-off victim grievance voting blocks that vote for their own interests, instead of those of the country.

People came here - from everywhere - to BE American. We used to be the melting pot, but that seems no longer the case.


73 posted on 01/20/2019 10:21:57 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Mikemurphy
Please people, Think through these things before you knee jerks.


74 posted on 01/20/2019 10:22:03 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: robowombat
There is no national consensus today

The majority of Americans want the border secured and illegals sent packing.

There is no political consensus because the debate has been hijacked by the Left, the messaging by conservatives is not emotional, and illegals are being romanticized and equated to the immigrants of the 19th century that helped build America.

75 posted on 01/20/2019 10:23:10 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: 4Runner

Btw, thanks for posting this never-Trump thread. It makes it much easier to spot people like you.


76 posted on 01/20/2019 10:23:13 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Because the other was worse. At least McCain helped the GOP hold the Senate. That is the logic. Many now have had enough. I voted that way often. No more. If the Mittens GOP push DJT out I won't vote for any GOPER for Prez again unless they become DJT. This is why Linda Gramnesty keeps getting elected. No more, if he backpedals on immigration again no more votes. Better let the loon dems show the country for sure what they are.
77 posted on 01/20/2019 10:24:24 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: 4Runner

If we do not remove any of the 30 million (11 million was passed in 1998) and we going to amnesty them, there is no point in a wall/fence/barrier.

We still lose the rule of law and our country.


78 posted on 01/20/2019 10:25:27 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Reno89519

If you’re in boat with water flooding in, you have to stop the water FIRST. Otherwise you’ll die trying to bail it out.

Those in country are NOT a priority. Stopping the flood is paramount.


79 posted on 01/20/2019 10:25:44 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: NFHale
Nobody in the GOP or even most conservatives are pointing out these facts:

- Liberals advocating for illegals are protected by walls and armed guards.

- Democrats simply want the votes of illegals (who'll get citizenship) so they can remain in power forever.

- Nobody cares about the environmental damage illegals are doing to national forests along the border and Rio Grande river.

If Republicans bring up these points, they would control the narrative.

80 posted on 01/20/2019 10:26:39 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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