Trump to Dreamers: Drop Dead! [NSFW]
We saw this coming, but even we didn’t think the story would leak on the Sunday evening of the Labor Day weekend.
President Trump will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, setting the president in opposition with House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The news that Trump would end the program was first reported by POLITICO Sunday evening. The official announcement is expected Tuesday.
In recent weeks, several Republicans have expressed support for DACA, and on Friday, Ryan, who has rarely opposed the president even when many in his own party have, implored the president not to end the program in an interview with a hometown radio station.
“I actually don’t think he should do that,” Ryan said when he was asked on a hometown radio show Friday about Trump ending the program. “I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix.”
Trump promised to end the Obama-era program during the campaign, calling it “one of the most unconstitutional actions ever undertaken by a president.”
… without, of course, explaining exactly why it was unconstitutional. Besides, it’s no secret that Trump’s agenda is to undo or sabotage everything President Obama accomplished to make this nation a better place.
Raw Story has a stack of Twitter reactions to Trump’s latest smarmy xenophobic move, and they’re not pretty:
@realDonaldTrump Fuck you, I hope you end up in prison without a single penny to your name and forever be remembered as a failure. #DACA
— Carlos 🇺🇸 (@savage_hunter) September 4, 2017
Dear @realDonaldTrump: They say you like visuals. Also, you may want to read Ezekiel 18:20 & Matthew 25:35 on #nationaldayofprayer. #DACA https://t.co/39lGtkHBez
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 4, 2017
Reports of #DACA ending on #national day of prayer is a slap on the face on dreamers
— barbarab1833 (@barbarab1833) September 4, 2017
All of these scientists would have to leave if amnesty is not granted. #DACA https://t.co/GNqgrRSo3Q
— Matias Kaplan (@mtskpln) September 4, 2017
BONe very high profile Democrat was none too happy about the matter:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that if President Trump followed through with ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, it would be “one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president.”
Sanders took Trump to task in a series of tweets after Politico reported that Trump had decided to terminate DACA with a six-month delay.
“Taking legal protections away from 800,000 young people raised in this country is absolutely counter to what we stand for as a nation,” Sanders continued. “If Trump ends DACA, Congress must act immediately to restore it.”
Politico adds this telling detail and comment:
In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the president’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official. But a senior White House aide said that chief of staff John Kelly, who has been running the West Wing policy process on the issue, “thinks Congress should’ve gotten its act together a lot longer ago.”
So do we.
First, it’s clear that Republicans know this is yet another move that alienates millennials – and we would not be surprised if Congress (or a court or two) throws a monkeywrench in Trump’s plans to throw these all-American in everything but official citizenship out of the country.
Second, one could almost interpret Kelly’s comment as a general vritique of Congress, particularly Republicans.
And it’s clear by now that it shouldn’t have taken this long for at least one article of impeachment to have been approved and sent to the House floor by the Judiciary Committee.
