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Trump,
it seems, is willing to let them stay in the United States, provided that THEY
do the actual labor of erecting the border wall along the U.S./Mexico boundary that
the president has long pledged to his ideological nitwit backers.
OBVIOUSLY,
THAT IS parody. But in some ways, it sounds like the kind of absurd line of
logic that prevails whenever anything related to federal immigration policy or
our nation’s relations with Latin American nations comes up in discussion.
This
rhetoric got stepped up in recent days when the leaders of the Democratic
caucuses said THEY had reached agreement with Trump to get him to back off of
talk that the people who have only been in this country because of the Deferred
Action on Childhood Arrivals program will not face deportation come next year.
That
program is the Barack Obama initiative that was meant to make it possible for
these young people who have lived the bulk of their lives in the United States to
continue to exist here openly and contribute to our society.
But
Trump said about a month ago that he wants to do away with DACA because, of
course, it was an Obama initiative. And that makes it very bad, particularly in
the minds of the xenophobic twits amongst us who think that immigration policy
reform ought to solely be an increase in the number of deportations of
non-Anglo individuals.
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| Have Pelosi and Schumer ... |
SO
I HAVE no doubt that those people are not grossly offended by the thought that
Trump would even contemplate anything other than deportation. Because what they’re
hoping for is the six-month time period for Congress to address the issue to
pass with nothing happening – thereby making deportations inevitable!
It’s
also why I’m not surprised that Trump, himself, is now saying he has NO DEAL
with Democrats on this issue. Trying to make it seem that Senate Minority
Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., are telling tall tales (if not outright lying) in saying that a deal
has been reached.
Yet
the Pelosi/Schumer talk has too much detail too it to be mere exaggeration or
wishful thinking.
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| ... seriously reached a DACA deal with Trump? |
Whereas
even the Republican political opposition talk in response has a bearing of
truth – in that GOPers are saying that Congress will have to approve any deal
before it can take effect.
MEANING
THAT IT could easily be rejected by the same majority-Republican Congress that
went out of its way to ignore serious immigration reform efforts all throughout
the Barack Obama presidency.
Which
is why I’m sure the ideologues amongst us probably fantasize about some version
of the parody blurb I alluded to – that the young people wishing to remain in
the country they call home will be put to work as laborers.
Just
as how some of those same ideologues like to claim all these “foreigners”
coming to this country are really hurting the U.S. black population – taking away
jobs they could be doing.
As
though their vision of our society is one where black people are still picking
cotton and doing other hard labor for the economic benefit of the remainder of
society.
WHICH
IS AN outlandish concept for our modern-day society, if not an offensive one.
How could anyone seriously have such a thought bopping about in their brains?
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| TRUMP: What does he really think? |
Then
again, the debate over immigration manages to bring out the worst in some of
us, and the desperate and outlandish sides of many of us.
So
as to the question of “Do we have a DACA agreement?,” I can’t even begin to
offer an answer that would be anything other than a wild guess.
We
can only hope that sense and decency prevail. Although in this Age of Trump,
there are those to whom absurdity and offensive behavior is their wildest dream
come true.
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