The same goes for Jesus Lara in Ohio. He has four American citizen
children who have lived their entire lives here but their family is
being broken up by their own government. According to the Secretary, the courts are deporting them, not he or
his agency. He denied any responsibility and said he can't do anything
about it. But we all know the Secretary of Homeland Security has
extraordinary powers to spare families from deportation, especially
when doing so would not be in our national interest. I told him he could just pick up the phone and stop the deportation
of Ms. Lino and Mr. Lara and spare the American people the cruelty and
the hardship. But he is hiding behind the old ``it is out of my hands''
bureaucratic dodge and the old ``I am just following orders'' defense--
the general following orders. But, General, that is completely invalid because we know you have the
power to do the right thing. On TPS, a program that currently allows hundreds of thousands of
people to live and work here legally, the Secretary has almost
unilateral power to extend it. But the Secretary was like: Well, I
don't know what I'm gonna do. They have been here a long time.
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