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In reply to the discussion: I have close, hard-working, truly decent friends who are about to be deported. [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,213 posts)The real problem is that our nation is becoming meaner, nastier, stupider, and less decent. Too many are able to let these people be just abstract arguing points. Give a listen to Woody Guthrie's song Deportees.
And it isn't that a president didn't try. Yes, it could have been a bigger push, but Obama tried to engage the congress in immigration reform, and even though his suggestion was to use the mostly republican plan for immigration reform, the ass hat republicans used my friends as political warfare against any progress under a black president. Obama actually executive ordered a portion that would end a good part of the heartache. Then godless assholes in Texas found a KKK judge to block it.
No. There are two villains here. Soulless republicans (I know - redundant) and lefties who either didn't vote for Hillary or spent the primary after February trashing her. I'm not feeling very christian right now, so I just wish the pain their actions have caused to so many to be visited upon them. Hey. Not perfect here. But the republicans and mindless lefties did the crime. My friends didn't do anything to anybody.