Republicans Signal Break Over DACA

[struggle4progress]

by ANDREW RAFFERTY

WASHINGTON — ... While Democrats are overwhelmingly united in their effort to preserve the policy, some influential Republican lawmakers have signaled support as well for .. DACA ...

"It is right for there to be consequences for those who intentionally entered this country illegally," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said in a statement Monday. "However, we as Americans do not hold children legally accountable for the actions of their parents" ...

"I've urged the president not to rescind DACA, an action that would further complicate a system in serious need of a permanent, legislative solution," Hatch said. "Like the president, I've long advocated for tougher enforcement of our existing immigration laws. But we also need a workable, permanent solution for individuals who entered our country unlawfully as children through no fault of their own"...

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-reform/congressional-gop-signal-break-trump-over-daca-n798596

Five years later, the GOP has finally chosen its response to popular DACA: criticize Obama for this policy, then try to appropriate it as a GOP idea!

[rurallib]

1. I will believe it when I see those turn into votes in congress

to keep DACA - until then it is just more republican rhetoric to me.

[Historic NY]

2. Creating 800000 potential new enemies

and American haters. It would uproot the educated, tech savvy, employed, home owners, business owners, the highly vetted illegals that actually pay to be registered.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Exactly! This administration is RADICALIZING immigrants before getting them out of the country!

It's like Trump WANTS civil unrest in addition to opening up thousands of job vacancies that his couch potato supporters couldn't possibly hope to fill...

[George II]

7. That's how bush/cheney/wolfowitz created ISIS.

[panader0]

3. You last sentence--"critize Obama for this policy,

then try to appropriate it as a GOP idea."
That's the way they roll.....

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Indeed

That's exactly what Lindsey Graham's statement on DACA implied.

[spanone]

4. K&R...