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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust my gut feeling about where this congress will end up with DACA
Like the budget, it will get kicked down the road.
Some sort of CR-type legislation will put this forward until after the midterms. If the Dems win, it gets enshrined in law. If the GOP wins, they get some shitty, watered down sort of program that will be criminally burdensome on the Dreamers.
Again, just my gut feeling based on nothing but intuition.
And history.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)He is a man of honor and integrity.
mitch96
(13,940 posts)He will come up with something that looks like a DACA repeal but it isn't. He did not make a commitment so we are getting pissed on and them telling us it's just rain...
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treestar
(82,383 posts)then in 2019 they Can pass it. But will the Orange Idiot sign?
Vinca
(50,323 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Campaign on that saying that Congress can then block the Orange Disaster.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)I think it's all going to just end in March, and then they'll act as if it never existed in the first place.
A CR is an indication that there is hope of a resolution, that both sides have incentive to keep program viable. The repubs have no such intention.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)They will kick it to 2019, when they expect Dems to have more power. Then it gets done and the GOPee gets a campaign issue.
They ALWAYS do this when they smell electoral setbacks.
Bush crashed the economy. Obama got blamed for a "slow recovery" - never mind that it was as bad or worse than the Great Depression. This cycle, they sowed the seeds of a crashed economy again AND they get "illegal immigration" as bonus.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)these young men and women in the crosshairs of INS would be a political disaster for the GOP.
Congressional Republicans are well aware of this, that's why they hammered out a bipartisan bill for Durrr Fuhrer to sign. I'm no fan of Graham and company, but it's not their fault the POS in the WH scoffed at the deal.
Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)That said, I'm pretty confident that the results of the midterms will shift the politics in favor of making their status permanent, even if Democrats can't take back at least one house of Congress.