Turning the Dream into a Nightmare
I am so goddamned tired of Trump's obsession with getting rid of every 
good thing former President Obama did because he's still got his fucking
 panties in a knot over getting laughed at by Obama's jokes at the 
annual Correspondents' Dinner in Washington DC a few years ago.
 
Okay, so this morning, Pres Trump caved into Texas AG Ken Paxton and 
several other state attorneys general--who had threatened to sue the 
administration if it did not kill DACA by Sept. 5--and announced that 
the program would be phasing out starting in six months. As of today, if
 people who are eligible have not applied, they will not be allowed to 
apply. Now, first, what is DACA? Well, it's a 2012 Executive Order by 
then-President Obama that allowed people who were brought to the USA 
illegally as children to apply for renewable two-year deportation stays 
based on going to school, keeping a spotless criminal record, how old 
they were when they arrived, and so forth. The long title is Deferred 
Action for Childhood Arrivals and it was important to put it into 
place--after congress refused to do it for 11 years--because a lot of 
little kids brought here no nothing of Mexico or whatever country in 
which they were born, and so deporting them seemed pretty cruel. I mean,
 they don't know their birth country or anybody in it in all 
probability, don't generally speak that country's language, don't know 
how to function there. And they had nothing to do with their arriving 
here illegally. So cut them some slack, right? Tight rules to follow, 
but if you follow them, you get to stay and not worry about ICE knocking
 on your door. 
    It affected about 800,000, with more than 230,000
 of them in Texas. Our AG Paxton didn't give a shit about them. Just 
tossed them under the bus with a load of batcrap about how he wasn't 
against the idea of it, he was against Obama's overreach with Executive 
Orders. This from a guy who told judges in Texas they were free to 
ignore performing gay marriages--mandated by the Supreme Court--if it 
offended their religion. This from a guy who refused to enforce the 
federal mandate on non-gender bathrooms. This from a guy who rails 
against rampant voter fraud and then found one lady who voted illegally 
and had her put away for eight years! This from a guy who is so 
anti-abortion that he's closed nearly all the abortion clinics in the 
state, winding up killing women to save zygotes. Oh, and this from a guy
 facing up to 99-years in a federal penitentiary for two felony counts 
of securities fraud in an upcoming trial. 
    Way to keep it real, 
Kenny. Making America White Again, making most of us sick, and turning 
the Dreamers' dream into a nightmare.
    Good luck with your upcoming trial. Wonder whether your lawyer will be able to weed out all the Latinos from the jury?
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