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angrychair

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2. What DACA deal? When?

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:03 PM

Jan 2018

If republicans want CHIP they can pass it without a single Democrat vote. They don’t need us and nothing is stopping them. Nothing has been stopping them for several months.

Why haven’t they voted for then?

To weaponize it and break and humiliate Democrats.

Dreamers and their supporters (read: almost everyone) will see this as a betrayal, it will matter in November when we see hundreds of thousands Dreamers being rounded up and arrested and deported starting in March because Democrats would not stand their ground.

Voting yes on this CR will break our momentum going into November and more importantly it will empower republicans.

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We Should Expect Unity [View all] angrychair Jan 2018 OP

The present DACA deal will never get a vote in the House. yallerdawg Jan 2018 #1

What DACA deal? When? angrychair Jan 2018 #2

Countervaling argument: Stinky The Clown Jan 2018 #3

I get your point angrychair Jan 2018 #4