- Moderator
- #1
This is when I have to ask...where is your heart?
These are people who were brought to the US as CHILDREN. Not their choice. For many - America is the only culture they know. They are as American as you or I...just don't have the right papers.
This is not a huge group of people - and they are people who are in school or employed or in the military - people making a go of it. The kind of people who define what it is to be American. They are working at or being educated for feilds such as teaching, nursing, law, medicine...kind of what we need.
We have low unemployment. They aren't taking jobs from anyone.
So why such vitriole towards them and the program?
I commend Paul Ryan for speaking up here.
And...I hesitantly commend Trump for at least finding it a STRUGGLE between his heart and his campaign promise.
I hope his heart wins.
Congress MUST address comprehensive immigration reform. The only reason Obama ordered DACA was because Congress WOULD NOT DO IT.
So do it damn it! Don't destroy these young and VERY AMERICAN lives!
These are people who were brought to the US as CHILDREN. Not their choice. For many - America is the only culture they know. They are as American as you or I...just don't have the right papers.
This is not a huge group of people - and they are people who are in school or employed or in the military - people making a go of it. The kind of people who define what it is to be American. They are working at or being educated for feilds such as teaching, nursing, law, medicine...kind of what we need.
We have low unemployment. They aren't taking jobs from anyone.
So why such vitriole towards them and the program?
I commend Paul Ryan for speaking up here.
And...I hesitantly commend Trump for at least finding it a STRUGGLE between his heart and his campaign promise.
I hope his heart wins.
Congress MUST address comprehensive immigration reform. The only reason Obama ordered DACA was because Congress WOULD NOT DO IT.
So do it damn it! Don't destroy these young and VERY AMERICAN lives!