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| Kelly having to correct ... |
He
says such people are not going to be a priority for deportation, regardless of
whether or not the legal protections that were offered those individuals during
the Barack Obama presidency do wind up disappearing next month due to the
actions of President Donald J. Trump.
NOT
THAT I believe any individuals who went to the trouble of registering with the
federal government under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are
going to feel the least bit relieved.
Then
again, it could mean the ultimate protection for those young people who have
lived the bulk of their lives is the inability of our federal government
leadership to figure out what it wants to do.
It
could wind up that will hold in check those individuals who seriously thought
that a vote for Trump just over a year ago would wind up instant deportation of
all these “foreigners” who “don’t belong here.”
That
is, of course, when they were not fantasizing about their other “priority” –
the instant incarceration of Hillary R. Clinton (remember chants of, “Lock her
up!”?).
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| ... his boss, Trump, so often ... |
KELLY’S
WORDS THIS week to reporter-types in Washington, D.C. that these “dreamers” are
“not a priority for deportation” and that those individuals will be left alone
so long as they avoid any criminal record and “stay out of anyone’s scope”
ought to offer some comfort to those individuals who seriously wonder if the
election of an ideologue who doesn’t really have a clue how government works
provides a threat to their futures and the lives they’re trying to build.
But
then again, it was just over two weeks ago that Kelly told members of Congress
that it was likely even Trump knew his constant demands for a physical barrier be
built along the U.S./Mexico border were not going to happen.
Only
to have Trump himself come back and insist that it was Kelly who didn’t have a
clue – and that his demands for a border wall to keep all those dreaded
Mexicans out of the United States really was going to happen.
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| ... is a sight we didn't get in the days of Rahm ... |
Does
this mean that tomorrow’s “story” will be Trump denouncing Kelly for once again
speaking on this issue, and that all those young foreigners really are going to
face deportation once the DACA protections of the Obama era expire come March
5?
COULD
IT BE that this ongoing battle over the fate of a group of young people who
really have done everything they can in life to assimilate to this country and
merely want a bureaucratic obstacle removed from their path to complete the
journey is going to be what keeps the federal government from acting?
Because
I don’t believe our Congress is going to come up with a magical solution to
this issue by March 5. The courts, thus far, have ruled in ways that would
thwart action toward deportation.
Yet
there are too many members of Congress who are determined to keep any long-term
resolution of the bureaucratic mess that is our federal immigration policy from
being reformed.
There
are too many people whose ideological hang-ups benefit from a chaotic
immigration policy. A real solution is going to include the eventual replacement
of Trump as president with someone who wants to look at the issue rationally.
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| ... advising his boss, Obama |
WHICH
IS A situation I must confess I don’t see occurring anytime soon. I can see a
lot more irrationality occurring on the issue of immigration reform before
anyone gets willing to be serious.
Until
then, the safest bet for those young people whom some are determined to view as
the problem (instead of political nonsense) could be the chaos itself – which could
prevent any ideologically-motivated actions with long-term consequences.
And
one other thought – about how absurd our federal government has become. Can
anyone envision former President Obama so often being contracted by his
chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for not having a clue?
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