By Carolyn Shore Aresu as Libby Shaw
Only cowards would scapegoat children.
It seems to me that many, if not most members of Congress more than deserve to get fired in November. This would include some so-called "Centrist" Democrats. (I am talking to you, former W. kissed surrogate, Henry Cuellar.)
It should be obvious to most of us by now that a peanut gallery of middle school children are rebelling against or outright sabotaging the people's business in the U.S. House of Representatives. Despite the fact that the vast majority of the American people are in favor of immigration reform that supports a path to citizenship Ted Cruz's tea party army of teenagers will have none of it.
Recent polling shows that the majority of Americans have little respect for and quite frankly and understandably loathe the current U.S. Congress. Its current approval rating stands at a breathtaking low of 7%.
Actually 7% seems pretty generous to me. This leaves me to believe the 7% are comprised of the usual right wing Obama bashing bigots, sore losers, xenophobes, misogynists as well as those who benefit from a do nothing government: the Koch boys, oil and gas lobbyists, Wall St. insiders, anti-Social Security and Medicare lobbyists, the NRA, ALEC and other greedy players who would love nothing more than to empty the U.S. Treasury into their pockets.
Such happened during the W/Cheney years in 2007 and 2008 and so the greed masters remain ever hopeful. After all, this current Congress has worked very hard to diminish the American people's faith in our government. Ted Cruz and his sorry ilk smash the place to smithereens and then they turn around and blame the President and the evil doing federal gubmint for the mess they made.
Canadian born immigrant Ted Cruz is only too happy to accommodate the fat cats and his far right ideologues. At the expense of the plight of children who are fleeing the violence in their Central American countries.
Yes indeed. Ted Cruz has helped to create the worst Congress ever. In fact, Ted Cruz is now the de facto Speaker of the House.
Meanwhile, over 50,000 children are seeking refuge in our country. How are we going to take care of them?
What is the chief government saboteur Ted Cruz's solution for these children other than deportation and a certain death or kidnapping into human trafficking ?
It takes a coward to scapegoat children.
Background: Under current law, refugee children fleeing Central American violence can stay with family or sponsors while their immigration case is processed instead of being forced to remain in temporary shelters overcrowded kennels. In practice, that's what happens in a majority of cases.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent human being who thinks there's anything wrong with that law or policy. Unless, of course, you're a House Republican. Then you start having fantasies about how all these illegal refugee kids are invading America, aided and abetted by their illegal sponsors, and so now we need to start making people show their proof of citizenship or at least legal status, otherwise this country will be overrun and our freedom destroyed and we'll all get thrown into FEMA camps. Or something.
The notion of decent humanity does not enter into the realm of a right wing master of
shameful deception.
Weaving, Conflating and Deceiving
Only cowards would scapegoat children.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
Ted Cruz and right wing extremists at the Heritage Action "think tank" can be counted on to blame the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program of 2012 for the recent influx of children refugees from Central America.
I mean, what else can a Party of hate based sore losers do?
The obvious question raised by all this is whether DACA can actually be blamed for the crisis. I mean, if Ted Cruz and the hard-right flank of the House GOP are ready to scuttle what could be Congress’ last chance to address the border crisis before they all skip town for a month, they’d better have a damn good reason, right?
Well, they don’t. There’s little cause to believe DACA has anything to do with the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the border, and there’s zero reason to believe it is the primary driver of the mass migration. Conservatives are attempting to capitalize on the chaos and end an immigration program they dislike.
The Heritage Action group relies, as usual on deception and fuzzy math.
Oof, that lede causes physical pain. Anyway, when Needham writes “the numbers are undeniable,” what he means is “the numbers are undeniable so long as you don’t really look at them too closely.” It is true that Obama created DACA on June 15, 2012. It’s also true that the number of minors crossing the border spiked between 2011 and 2013.
What Needham carefully omits is precisely when that spike began: the autumn of 2011, several months before DACA was signed into existence. “Beginning in October 2011, the U.S. Government recorded a dramatic rise – commonly referred to in the United States as ‘the surge’ – in the number of unaccompanied and separated children arriving to the United States from these same three countries – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras,” a recent report from the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees states.
Busting the right wing snake oil dealers. Twisting the facts to suit a hateful agenda, as usual.
And that’s just it – what it comes down to ultimately is that Needham, Cruz and other conservatives are trying to conflate misinformation about DACA with DACA itself. They’re arguing that the program should be scrapped because people in Central America may have misconceptions about it. “Rather than creating the clarity necessary to dispel the myths and rumors, the Obama administration is now considering expanding its so-called deferred action program to millions more,” Needham writes.
When the program was signed into the law, the parameters were fairly clear: It applies only to immigrants brought into the country as kids before June 2007. There was, however, a substantial portion of the conservative political and media world that did their level best to scream as loudly as possible that the White House had just declared amnesty for young undocumented immigrants. So maybe the White House isn’t to blame for the lack of clarity.
So, while the GOP has spent the summer
screaming about the crisis at the border, its members are now congratulating themselves for doing nothing about the humanitarian calamity at our nation's doorstep.
Congressional nihilism has created a vacuum. Now it’s President Obama’s job to fill it, to keep his promise to end the border crisis and find ways to redirect immigration enforcement and protect possibly millions of families from unjust deportation. Of course, regardless of what he does, the system will still be marked by chaos and pain. And the hard-liners will scream at any action he takes.
Wait a minute. The U.S. House Republicans voted to sue the President for his use of
executive powers. Despite the fact that President Obama has issued the
fewest of them when compared to his predecessors.
Is there a psychiatrist in the house?
November cannot get here soon enough. It's time to send the middle schoolers home to their mommas for a hard spanking and long-term grounding.
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