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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:49 PM Jan 2018

Sen Cornyn "No harm if DACA not renewed"

Saw Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on C-SPAN say that if DACA is not renewed, nothing bad will happen.
DACA recipients won't be deported, as "we" only deport 'illegal immigrants' who are felons and gang members.

The only thing (he said) that would happen is the DACA recipients will no longer have the protections of DACA,
no longer will be able to get work permits,
and no longer can be admitted to schools.

That's all?

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Sen Cornyn "No harm if DACA not renewed" (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 OP

Deport him. n/t rainin Jan 2018 #1

tell that to the man just deported who came here at the age of 10 lapfog_1 Jan 2018 #2

Exactly lapfog, First thing that came to mind after reading the tweet.... Old Vet Jan 2018 #4

I keep thinking about the guy who was deported The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #3

The quality of mercy is not strained except for the GOP bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #5

Smooth move Cornyn MagickMuffin Jan 2018 #6

And the cons lsewpershad Jan 2018 #7

What an asshole sakabatou Jan 2018 #8

Well. That's MurrayDelph Jan 2018 #9

rainin

(3,011 posts)

1. Deport him. n/t

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:54 PM

Jan 2018

lapfog_1

(29,243 posts)

2. tell that to the man just deported who came here at the age of 10

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:57 PM

Jan 2018

and never even had a traffic ticket.

Checked in with ICE routinely.

Deported last week from his wife and children.

He was a little too old to be a Dreamer

Old Vet

(2,001 posts)

4. Exactly lapfog, First thing that came to mind after reading the tweet....

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:11 PM

Jan 2018

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,015 posts)

3. I keep thinking about the guy who was deported

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:10 PM

Jan 2018

after living here for 30 years, had a home, a job, a family, no criminal record. And I wonder about the people who actually did the dirty work of bringing him in and sending him to Mexico (ICE agents, I assume)? How do you live with yourself after you've done something like that? You physically take a man away from his wife and children and put him on a plane to someplace he doesn't know. You leave his family without their husband, dad and breadwinner. What are you thinking when you go home that evening and your spouse says "How was work today?" Do you say, "Great! I got rid of another freeloading foreigner! What's for dinner?" Or do you mumble something and grab a beer and turn on the TV because you feel too guilty to talk to anybody? Do you think about quitting, or are you like the soldiers of the SS who comfortably did what their Führer told them to do? I don't understand how anyone can do a job that requires that kind of cruelty.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

5. The quality of mercy is not strained except for the GOP

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:20 PM

Jan 2018

MagickMuffin

(15,983 posts)

6. Smooth move Cornyn

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:31 PM

Jan 2018

Considering Texas is becoming more and more a large Latina/Latino based state. My neighborhood has seen a sharp increase in the Latina/Latino moving into this once all white community.

I have no qualms with their being here. However, I do not like to listen to their music over a loud PA system at all hours of the day/night. Other than that I get along with everybody.