Thursday, September 7, 2017

DACA - my thoughts

I try to stay neutral when it comes to politics and FB but here is another fine example of "fake news", well, maybe not fake but at least altered to suit the narrative.

Some US state attorney generals are of course, suing the President over his decision on DACA. And I quote: "they alleged Mr. Trump’s shift was driven by racial animus toward Mexican Americans and that the Trump administration failed to follow federal rules governing executive policy making.”
I point out that the DACA participants are not Mexican/American. They are not natural citizens i.e.: being born here or naturalized by citizenship.

 I could have been taken to France as a child, been raised there to adulthood but never be considered a French citizen. I would always be an American citizen living in a foreign land and have to follow the laws of the "host" country. One must go through that countries steps to become a citizen if that is even allowed in said country. And if France told me I have to go back to the U.S., then that's the way it would have to be. No amount of crying or protesting would change the outcome.

Nor are all the DACA folks even Mexican born, some are from other countries. President Obama did state that this executive order was not amnesty or a path to citizenship and was a temporary fix as he could not convince Congress to create a law on these kids, so he did a run around and signed the executive order which can be annulled by any future President and was.
 So, Trump punted it back to Congress. Can they create a law to offer these young people a path to citizenship? Is that fair to the waiting lists of aliens who have been waiting months and years to enter the U.S. legally? Who knows, only time will tell. It's an ugly mess but lets be clear... this was created by Obama and Trump is left with having to try and fix the problem.
 Unfortunately, its real people stuck in the middle with little to no recourse on how their future in the USA will turn out. Illegal immigrants do not have rights under the laws of USA and unfortunately neither do their children. But this is a humanitarian and ethical issue. How can we send back to unstable and unsafe countries these people who have lived here most of their lives? I don't have the answer and neither does the President. Let's see what Congress can come up with.

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Enemy of the People??

News media sources are not the enemy of the people. Main stream news organizations do indeed have political leanings (FOX News, CNN etc) ...