President Trump said he'd deal with DACA with heart. It was a lie.
President Trump said hed deal with DACA with heart. It was a lie.By Paul Waldman September 4 at 9:12 AM
We are going to show great heart, President Trump said at a news conference in February when asked about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We are going to deal with DACA with heart. If you believed that for a second, you were a fool.
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As we awaited Trumps decision, we were told in one news report after another that the dilemma was just tearing him up inside, because he had such sympathy for the young people known as dreamers (after the Dream Act, an earlier piece of legislation that would have granted them legal status). Were still being told that. And why wouldnt he? Since President Obama created DACA, more than 800,000 of them have come forward and registered with the government, making themselves vulnerable for the chance to stay legally in the place theyve grown up. Theyre people who were brought to the country illegally as children, and have done everything right since; in order to be eligible you had to still be in school or had to have graduated from high school or been honorably discharged from the military, and not committed a felony or serious misdemeanor.
According to a recent survey, 97 percent of dreamers are in school or working, those who are working are earning significantly more than they were before gaining legal status, and theyre starting businesses at dramatically higher rates than native-born Americans are. These are young people who grew up in America. Many of them havent seen the countries of their birth since they were too young to remember. And now Trump is going to deport them.
Is anyone really surprised? Its not just that as a candidate the president promised to end DACA; we know what his word is worth. But lets remind ourselves of the person whose heart were talking about. Donald Trump began his presidential campaign saying, When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. He alleged that the judge in the Trump University fraud trial couldnt do his job objectively because Hes a Mexican (the judge is in fact an American of Mexican heritage). He repeatedly told lurid stories of individual crimes committed by an undocumented immigrant, especially if the victim was a beautiful white girl, even though immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans. As president he followed up by creating the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office, which exists in order to publicize crimes committed by immigrants. A month ago, he endorsed a bill in Congress that would slash legal immigration levels in half. He claimed, ludicrously, that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton only because millions of undocumented immigrants voted for her. And the symbolic centerpiece of his campaign was a wall along our border with Mexico.
A Trump supporter might say that all that doesnt mean Trump is a bigot, because we cant judge whats in his heart. The only appropriate response is: Give me a break. There is precisely zero evidence that Trump feels anything for dreamers. More importantly, none of us should give a damn whats in his heart. What matters is what he does. And no president in our lifetime has encouraged, promoted, celebrated and exploited bigotry and hatred particularly against immigrants to the degree Donald Trump has. Thats who he is.
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GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)A heart that is rotted and depraved? Fuck him and his asshole followers. Fuck them all.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)You're a mean one, Mr. Trump.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Trump.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Trump.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders.
You've got garlic in your soul,
Mr. Trump.
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine and a half foot pole.
You're a vile one, Mr. Trump.
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile,
Mr. Trump.
Given the choice between the two of you,
I'd take the seasick crocodile.
You're a foul one, Mr. Trump.
You're a nasty wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks.
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Trump.
The three best words that best describe you,
Are as follows, and I quote"
Stink!
Stank!
Stunk!
You're a rotter, Mr. Trump,
You're the king of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots,
Mr. Trump.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr. Trump,
With a nauseous super nause.
You're a crooked jerky jockey and
You drive a crooked horse
Mr. Trump!
You're a three-decker sauerkraut
And toadstool sandwich,
With arsenic sauce!
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)The first paragraph anyway.
Now I would relate him to the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz since both are lacking a heart.
JDC
(10,127 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)NotASurfer
(2,150 posts)Words have bizarro alternate universe meanings with this administration. Just saying.