The Center for American Progress Action Fund, founded by Clinton operative, John Podesta, sent out a memo that reads, “If Democrats don’t try to do everything in their power to defend Dreamers, that will jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in 2018 and beyond." [President Trump knows this better than most and, by supporting DACA, has knowingly handed the Democrats a powerful advantage in future elections.] [...]
DACA allows 700,000 people to stay in the US who were brought in illegally when they were children. Trump now says he will accept any bill that Congress presents to him, which is a total abandonment of his promises to end DACA, stop chain migration, and build the wall. [Those who voted for him because of these promises have been betrayed again.] [...]
Tucker Carlson says the immigration policy of lawmakers over the past 30 years has been to grant amnesty to illegal aliens while promising future border controls that never materialize, and he says that policy continues today. President Trump won the election by promising to reform immigration, but now he is pushing DACA, and Republican lawmakers are supporting the same bad deals of the past. [...]
President Trump has blamed NAFTA for eliminating manufacturing jobs for U.S. workers but it also caused economic dislocation in Mexico, driving some desperate Mexicans northward to the U.S., as Dennis J Bernstein reports. By Dennis J Bernstein During his campaign…Read more →
Over the last few decades, once populist Texas has turned into a very red state. But not hopelessly red. Last year , without even trying, Hillary made unexpected inroads in districts that were gerrymandered to prevent unexpected inroads. Trump won the state-- 4,685,047 (52.23%) to 3,877,868 (43.24%). Those 3.87 million Texans who voted for Hillary were more than her margin of victory in the national popular vote.
Courtesy of USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, we've looked at the Numbers of DACA recipients in each district where we have an endorsee and where we have a candidate far along in the vetting process. We also noted the annual GDP loss in each district that would result in the deportation of the DACA workers. This is a very big issue in Texas, as you might guess from looking at the stats.
A broad-ranging set of demands relating to immigration enforcement has been laid out by the White House as the condition for a compromise that would see immigrant young adults secure Obama-era protections. About 690,000 holders of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status could soon face deportation if a deal isn’t agreed to when the Obama-era program expires.
Kevin Jackson of the Black Sphere says that the NAACP and the Black Caucus are using Hispanics to topple the whites who hold power. [...]
This debate takes a deep dive into many collateral issues, with details on the argument from both sides. [...]
