Yes and I am getting upset with TPM the regurgitation team.
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Why the F__K canât the senate work on a bill that exclusively addresses a simple and straightforward fix/reform for DACA? House members should do the same. Even if the âgarbage fireâ in the White House threatens to veto⌠forge ahead, pass the legislation and let the public know that it is only the president standing in the way of progress. If he vetoes, vote to override it. Congress HAS the power.
Besides, âcomprehensiveâ immigration reform is far too complex to work on (as a whole). so fix a piece of it and move on to the next issue.
Q. How do you eat an elephant?
A. One bite at a time.
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That is why you do not see ICE raids on meat and food processing plants anymore. If Trump was really serious, that is the route they would go. They could also hit the landscaping and building construction sites if they wanted to get really serious. That would hurt US businesses, thatâs also why we are not seeing that. They are picking up the low hanging fruit.
What the Dreamers need to do is hire a lobbying firm on K street. If they all kick in ten bucks, they could buy nearly eight Congressmen at a million bucks a piece. I suppose an extra dollar a piece would be needed to pay the lobbying firm.
ETA:
My math was off, it would take 100 bucks a piece to buy 80 Congressmen at a million per.
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So this is the part where the genius Chuck Schumer pulls a rabbit out of his hat, right? Right???
(My guess is that all heâll be able to muster is a sputtering, âBut, but, but Mitch! You promised!â)
Plus pic should be of McConnell. The Dems donât control Congress. Thr association is also misleading because it connects the blame to Schumer. His failure was in the original failed filibuster messaging.
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They have the power, but not the will.
This is exactly what they want to happen.
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What happens now? NothingâŚjust a passel of ceremonial nonsense with no resultsâŚyou can see it over and over again over the past decadeâŚthey serve no one but themselves and the monied interests that arranged to have them âelectedâ
Since it was a broken promise made to DACA by our government could the a CLU get involved? Enough time needs to be bought in order to help time enough for the midterms to possibly turn over the Senate and come close to turning around the house of representatives And then maybe the courts can help by putting in Junction on any actions by the Trump administration. More proof of what liars they are incompetent do nothing party lying politics in favor of Russia is the name of the Republican Party game.
The headline for this is a depressing example of bothsiderism from TPM.
Republicans killed DACA, with a big push from Trump.
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The Senate Failed To Save DACA. What Happens Now?
I would expect a surge in enrollment in Spanish classes.
WTF is wrong with your headline writers?!
The Senate Failed To Save DACA
Bullshit. The correct headline is:
The Senate Failed To Save DACA from a problem created entirely by Trump.
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The primary objection to the âcommon sense caucusâ plan mentioned by the administration and a number of potential yes vote senators was the âlowered priority of enforcementâ deadline, which was either Jan, 2018 or June 2018. (The June 2018 date was handwritten in, and after the fact, some Dems said that related to something else. But regardless, either the bill had a sort of pre-emptive amnesty, which really seemed to enrage some Republicans, or it had a very near-date amnesty.
My sympathy for those who arrived illegally grows with the time theyâve spent here. I donât think those who arrived a couple months ago can realistically claim to have built their lives here. I would welcome them. My votes have always been for people who would raise legal immigration levels.
But I think their claim is lesser in a way that makes it worth it, to me, to adjusting the reduced priority of enforcement date back by a couple years if it gets status for significant numbers of people and statutory reduced priority of enforcement for millions of others.
Of course, I also donât know for sure whether that change would bring 6 votes. Nor whether such an amended bill could pass the House. But it seems worth testing. That bill was pretty damn close.
You might want to get out a little more around your town, deporting 700K is a pretty popular in certain circles, whats more they want all 11 million, they secretively want all furriners deported regardless of status.
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Democratic messaging and strategy continues to suck. The Republicans will likely blame DACA failure on the Democrats and make it stick. Our leadership is old, out-of-touch, and unequipped to fight. Here is another total messaging failure:
I donât get that. It has suited Republicans for decades to disable regularized immigration (and emigration, e.g. Reagan administration attack on military pensions of dual citizens) practices. Cesar Chavez in 1969 went to the Mexican border to protest the use of irregular migrants outside the bracero system to break strikes in the central valley in the struggle to organize farm workers for even livable wages. The right still has trouble wrapping its head around what Chavez was up to. Every time the Democrats attempt to clarify the debate, however, the Republicans instinctively reframe back to a murky image of ants scrambling across the desert. DACA youth are basically permanent residents and all the Senate and House have to do is pass a bill that ratifies this de facto truth. They could even make those that have completed military service or a university degree automatic citizens, because the issue of contributing to the US is moot. Most DACA youth, as we are always reminded, do not know where they would go if deported. Democrats would probably do better to stay on message about regularizing the status of everyone in the US, even though the predictable âamnestyâ charge will be laid in one millisecond.
Quite frankly, it looks like DACA is dead. If I was a DACA recipient, I would keep a packed suitcase available, because probably by July the deportations will start.
The voters failed these folks. Protest voting is just plain stupid.
Itâs simple. Trump ended the Obama executive order protecting Dreamers. Trump could restore the protections today. The GOP could have voted DACA protections into law. They didnât.
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The article refers to saving the DACA law. There isnât and never was a DACA law. Thatâs the entire problem. DACA came about as a result of administrative action to prioritize action on immigration. What one President binds, another can loose, and thatâs what Trump did. It shows that we need an actual law, not that Trump seems to be keen on obeying those either. DACA could be back on tomorrow if Trump rescinded his order rescinding Obamaâs order. All his squaking about DACA is completely disingenuous. He could put it back tomorrow with any modifications he wanted. Want to let active military dreamers stay? Tell DHS not to prioritize them.Want to let non-criminal dreamers stay? Tell DHS not to prioritize them. Uncertainty about immigration drives even legal immigrants back into the shadows and out of the political arena. I would venture to wager that practically every hispanic person in this country, citizen or not, has a story about walking while brown.
This is an entirely solvable problem, but thatâs not really the point. Trump wants the problem.
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E-Verify is flawed, kind of like the âNo Flyâ list. Some US citizens are on it that should not be from identify theft activity, or even simple miscommunication, and there is no easy formal method to fix bad data. Which is why it is voluntary in most states. So someone would have to have an accurate E-Verify list first to enforce it everywhere, which would mean a lot of effort and perhaps national ID cards. Not going to happen when somehow the âillegalsâ are the problem, not the people hiring them who dodge taxes and ignore laws to do it.