Posted on 09/06/2017 3:55:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Over and over again, from the mouths of politicians in both parties, identity politics purveyors and cheap labor lobbyists, we hear the same refrains about President Obama's 800,000 amnestied illegal alien youths:
"They don't deserve to be punished."
"They deserve protection."
"They deserve the American dream."
Deserve, deserve, deserve.
Over and over again, in countless cookie-cutter op-ed pieces published over the past month, so-called DREAMers have vociferously lamented President Donald Trump's push to eventually undo their unconstitutional five-year reprieves from deportation plus coveted work permits:
"DREAMers like me have flourished under DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Trump might take it all away."
"If Trump ends DACA, DREAMers like me will return to a life of anxiety and doubt."
"I feel exhausted, I feel frustrated, I feel angry, and in the worst moments, I feel helpless. I feel terrified that at any moment this program is going to be taken away and once again I won't be able to work -- how will I pay my bills? ... What is going to happen to me if I get stopped on the street and I no longer have DACA? What's going to happen to me if I get put into deportation proceedings and I don't have thousands of dollars to hire an attorney to stay in this country?"
"I will lose my job, my ability to finish college, my driver's license, and will be subject to deportation. I am not alone either. Almost one million young immigrants like myself will be affected in the same way and possibly even worse."
I, I, I. Me, me, me. My bills. My ego. My education. My job. My anxiety.
Since when did DACA become the Depression and Anxiety Cure for Amnesty-seekers?
It's this insatiable appetite for collective entitlement that demonstrates the perils of blanket amnesty. Give a privileged political class an inch and they'll take, take, take until feckless public servants give away their country.
The proper response to illegal alien activists demanding that Washington act "NOW!" to preserve their comfort, allay their anxieties and extend their unconstitutional protections indefinitely is this:
Why?
Americans in uniform who've dedicated their lives to defending our nation are struggling to gain access to quality health care they've earned by action, not by accident or circumstance. Imagine their stress.
Five million American young people between 16-34 were unemployed last year and 50 million more are not even in the labor force. Imagine their anxiety.
Hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed. Imagine their frustration.
Why don't their dreams come first?
Nancy Pelosi called on House Republicans to help her "safeguard our young DREAMers from the senseless cruelty of deportation and shield families from separation and heartbreak."
Never has this Bay Area elitist called on House Republicans to join her in shielding native-born and law-abiding immigrant families from the senseless and preventable violence committed by criminals in this country illegally who've caused immeasurable heartbreak for decades in her overrun California sanctuary.
Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose son was mercilessly shot to death by a sanctuary-protected gang member living in outlaw-coddling Los Angeles illegally, administered a bracing reality check:
"You want to talk about families being separated? Try spending your holidays talking to a grave!"
The left-wing DREAM racket is a self-perpetuating political marketing machine. Its primary contribution to American society? Lashing out at how cruel, racist, ignorant and ungrateful the rest of us are for not bowing down before the hallowed angel children of the Obama administration's amnesty program. It's no coincidence that the publicity-hungry leaders of the DREAMer movement are full-time fulminators in government-funded academia, community organizing outfits, immigration law foundations and the grievance-nursing media.
A deserving DREAMer would respect the sovereign right of an independent nation to determine who stays and who goes based on its national interest and constitutional obligations to put its citizenry first.
The deserving DREAMer, in other words, would admit he or she is owed nothing and deserves nothing.
There is no such thing as a "deserving DREAMer."
I suggest “con”gress address daca after they finish what they promised during the election.you know.. Obamacare.. taxes... Regulations...
This time next year after those are completed sounds about right. The American people should come first.
Spot on! I said the same thing during the Bush and Obama administrations, it's absolutely applicable here too!
I don’t see where you can assume that being Aus equates to being white. I always get so frustrated when people hold such an uninformed opinion. There are a huge percentage of people who are not white who are Aussie born and bloody proud of it, too right now!
Stephen Foster wrote “Beautiful Dreamer.” Maybe they will leave his statue up after all.
My God....Jamiel should not have to be going through this agony.
You can thank the half/caste boob that once occupied the Oval Office.
Dreamers? They’re more like a nightmare.
Amen Michelle!!!!!
From home. No “getting in line” here in the US.
Exactly. Your post is common sense. Give them all a year to do it legally and if they don’t, then go after them. Problem solved, problem stays solved.
Yes, that was very otherizing of me. I will check my privilege.
I came here legally on September 25, 1966 when my husband brought me to the States as he was transferred from Germany to Fort Campbell, KY. I went through immigration, received my Green Card and became a legal Resident. On June 12, 1977 I became a Naturalized US citizen in Junction City, KS (we were stationed at Fort Riley. The celebration was at the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS two days later, June 14, 1977
The “dreamers”...really known as “nightmares”...should all be deported. I really don’t care if they are 3 years old (most are in their 20’s/30’s). They are invading illegal alien criminals. Get out of OUR country you ungrateful losers! Go back to your crappy countries and make them better...or not. Be gone!
They don’t “deserve” anything except a kick in the a**...out of this wonderful county. Criminal illegal alien invaders are losers.
The courts are rife with cases of judges removing kids from homes after being there for years. They always justify it by calling on “The rule of law”. Of course that only applies for things that liberals are in favor of. i.e. More democrat voters!!!
I agree. Why should criminals be glorified? Next do we glorify thiefs and robbers? They too only want to “better their financial status.” Sarc
You did it the right way!
I have a buddy who married a woman from another country also. I had the honor to attend her naturalization ceremony. Very moving and made me proud to be an American welcoming her to the country as an full citizen.
I remember one guy from Nigeria....he had tears in his eyes as he took the oath and said the pledge for the first time. I welcome those kind of folks.
The dreamers are all deserving. The question is just what is it they deserve? Certainly not a golden road to citizenship. They perhaps should be given a pass on their wetback status if they return willingly to their countries of origin and make their applications legally.
>> I don’t see where you can assume that being Aus equates to being white <<
You mean to say that all those Aborigines are not white?
Do tell!
Go home. Get in line
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