Posted on 02/22/2017 6:33:23 PM PST by ColdOne
“Small price to pay to get the problem under control,” he says of amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young illegals, via the Daily Rushbo. Am I awake?
I kid. This shouldn’t be shocking — if you’re a pragmatist, not a polemicist. Point one: Trump has been hinting at amnestizing DREAMers for months. Usually that takes the form of gooey pronouncements about having a big heart and how “great people that are here that have done a good job … should be far less worried” about deportation than criminals. Lately, though, the White House has showed its hand more clearly by declining to suspend Obama’s DACA program for DREAMers as part of its executive overhaul of immigration policy. All Rush is doing here is getting in line with a Republican president he already spends much of his time defending.
Point two: An immigration deal with Democrats that would trade serious enforcement upgrades for amnesty for DREAMers does make a lot of sense. If Trump needs to horse-trade with Democrats to get 60 votes in the Senate for more Border Patrol, more sophisticated means of tracking immigrants internally, and so forth, legalization for America’s most sympathetic class of illegals is an obvious possible concession, especially since Obama’s already granted them
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So your wallet and your roof and your neat yard are more important than National Sovereignty?
I never said they were BAD people.
I said that they broke the Law by coming here illegally and have no right to anything except Criminal Prosecution.
They should be sentenced to be deported.
The border is Sacrosanct.
He needs to stop DACA. It was illegally done by obama wasn’t it?
it’s absurd to advocate that we don’t enforce our immigration laws because you got a nice roof put on your house by what you suspect were a group of illegals.
I mean, it’s just off the charts ridiculous.
Yep! We have plenty of hard-core criminals and jihadis to kick out ASAP.
“horrific family members”. You didn’t differentiate or specify.
I didn’t say anything about how much it cost. I said they did a good job and worked hard. And many of them do.
A 10 year old has no right to anything but criminal prosecution?
Relax Francis.
Your reading comprehension is as bad as they guy I was responding to. I didn’t defend them being here. I said that many are hard working and not “horrific people”. I believe they should be deported. But I also don’t think a 10 year old deserves “criminal prosecution” because his parents brought him here when he was 2. Call me crazy.
Pick the low fruit first.
Democrats will probably be back in power in 4 or 8 years, and we need to make progress quick.
Actually, it did hurt the Clintons, just not to the extent that it would have had the press not been carrying their water. Be prepared for the media to hang the “Trumportation” of babies around the neck of Republicans like we hung 0bamacare around the neck of the dems. You are looking to win the battle, while I am looking to win the war.
I have no problem with those who have been raised here since young childhood and can prove it through school records being allowed to stay if they do certain things. Rule #1, NO government freebies.
Those who came recently need to be sent back ASAP.
perhaps your state is not as generous as the home state of Dead head Ted who invented all of this disaster in 1965.
I have no sympathy left. I am paying for these parasites who knock me out of line at Costco, do not speak English and make no attempt to assimilate.
My brazilian born/American citizen friend was threatened by her own fellow Brazilians for working last Thursday on that idiotic “day without and Illegal” or whatever the heck it was.
Yes. I will indeed call them horrific family members.
And you?
Listening to statements from the white house briefings I’m not convinced Trump is going to ignore DACA. They just aren’t making it a priority and quite frankly why should they. There is already evidence though that they will eliminate DACA status quickly if need be so it’s more a political move to not highlight it. It’s the media that’s been highlighting it. Spicer said, it doesn’t mean we’re not going to we just haven’t gotten to it (I remember hearing this or something close to it during yesterday’s presser). The media is trying to box Trump in and it won’t work. Even if he allows some to stay I believe it will be much narrower a group
this is a straw man. the entire history of the saying about having to pick one’s battles is a fabric of failure for centuries.
first of all, you DON’T choose your battles. they usually choose you. but that’s not even the point; even if you did choose your battles, what needs to be explained is how or why they chose incorrectly.
He Rush, because I know you read here, here’s what we win: all the entry level jobs that Mexicans steal from black people can be rightfully restored.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, THESE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS?
Even before he took the Oath of Office, the left & the supposed right have been crucifying him. So he should do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
There has NEVER, in the history of this nation, been a president, UNTIL NOW, who didn't get a "honeymoon" period.
Though the Whigs and those in that era's media went after Andy Jackson,tooth & nail, before he became president, that abated, after he was sworn in. And all of THAT filth, Jackson believed until his dying day, killed his wife. And it just may have.
And in my lifetime, there has NEVER been protests, marches against, nor any of the other crap going on today, against a president....and NOT before I was born either.
Dang straight.
odd how everyone’s reading comprehension seems to be faulty but yours. maybe you just said something silly.
This is Paul Ryan CRAP.
Remember during the campaign, “American kids are dreamers” ?
How about we won’t deport them but they can never be citizens... and their families have to go back.
NO VOTING - EVER !
“[Some of them served in Vietnam.]
Criminals were often given the choice of joining the military or going to jail.”
Staying on the DREAM topic, I don’t believe my classmates in high school were criminals.
They were drafted, like me. I wasn’t a criminal, either.
I respect them for their service.
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