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02-16-2018, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by hopeful_in_nyc View Post
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Trump tweet: Cannot believe how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated by the Democrats...totally abandoned! Republicans are still working hard.

I actually agree with him on this one, lol.
The GOP did not want anything to pass that could be construed as a wide-ranging legalization program. Both sides played politics, but immigrants are simply not within the GOP's base. We've always known what the Democrats, however inept they were in negotiating, were looking for: a fix for DACA without radically changing the legal immigration system. This is not a departure from what their platform has always been. The GOP, however, is trying to flip this by claiming the high ground, when anyone who has ever followed this debate for the last 17 years has seen that they have either lacked the leadership or the will to move this position to an acceptable one for their base.

Yes, there is great public support for Dreamers, but the problem is that the GOP turned this debate into a wider one involving all immigrants, which is anathema to their base. That was intentional. There was no real reason to do that; this debate is happening because of the discrete decision by Trump to rescind DACA. The debate should have just focused on fixing DACA, but the GOP turned this into enforcement + wall + legal immigration + diversity visas.

So, who's treating Dreamers poorly? Which party's leadership politicizes tragedies involving immigrants? Which party's leadership incites violence against immigrants and minorities? Which party's leadership has kicked this can down the road for almost two decades?
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