NYTimes: Donald Trumps Cowardice on Dreamers

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President Trump didn’t even have the guts to do the job himself. Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country that the administration would no longer shield from deportation 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.

Mr. Sessions, a longtime anti-immigrant hard-liner, was more than up to the task. In a short, disingenuous speech, he said a program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012 — known as DACA, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — was a lawless policy that “yielded terrible humanitarian consequences” and denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. (Mr. Trump echoed these claims in a statement released by the White House.) Mr. Sessions called DACA “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” and said “failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.”

False, false, false and false.

DACA recipients are not threats to public safety or national security; to the contrary, they must have a nearly spotless record to be eligible in the first place. They do not receive legal status in this country, only a two-year, renewable deferral of deportation along with a work permit and eligibility for other government benefits down the road. And they are not taking jobs from native-born Americans, whose declining levels of employment can be chalked up to other factors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/trump-daca-dreamers-rescind.html?mcubz=0

[gratuitous]

1. False, false, false, and false

Of course their reasoning is specious! Damn, it's like the Times hasn't been the paper of record for 40 years. If they had good reasons for their hateful and cruel policies, Republicans wouldn't have to lie. But the "good" reasons are bigotry, racism, and cruelty. So they can't say that.

[madaboutharry]

2. Some of the comments

following the article are dreadful, people can be so hateful.

[shanny]

3. This is the way to go after trump.

Call him a coward, show his incompetence, point out his ignorance, destroy his brand--focus on his actions not his general repulsiveness (that's been tried).

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Call him a coward because he IS a coward. It's not made up or reframed.

Cowardice seeps from Trumpy's every pore. Cowardice is at the core of his daily lies. He's a coward who hides behind his money.

[shanny]

5. Of course he is

His brand is only a public image with no basis in reality, and it is what got him elected. Destroying that might not only cripple him politically, it could make him quit. His only motivation is his own self-interest anyway.

[Lucinda]

6. KNR Thank you!

[lindysalsagal]

7. 45 has "repealed" all of Obama's social programs, until he hasn't.

Just like he's cared about his base's Archie Bunker "values", until he didn't.

Because he used them the whole way down the road without actually giving one crap about anythiing except himself.

[Solly Mack]

8. Anyone in the Senate that says Sessions is a decent person is a liar or just as bad as Sessions.

He isn't and he never has been decent. Just because the word Senator came before his name at one time doesn't mean he is worthy of respect. If your co-worker is a piece of shit there's no point in pretending otherwise.

Sessions, like Trump, is a racist.

Sessions as AG is a disaster for all Americans. Even the idiots too stupid to understand the danger Sessions represents will suffer from his being AG.

Same goes for Trump.

I'm sick of this mal- administration and I'm sick of its supporters and defenders.