They are, as the President of the United States
said, terrific people. We love them, as he also said. The announcement that he would end their legal status here, that they
would be deported, that they would be ejected from this country is the
height of hypocrisy and inhumanity. It is cruel and irrational, it will
deprive our economy of hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10
years, it will mean disruption in workplaces, and that is why employers
are protesting the decision. It will mean schools will be uncertain
about how many students there will be, and that is why university
presidents and administrators are condemning it, but, most importantly,
it will betray who we are as Americans--a nation of immigrants, a
nation that keeps its promise. Now, let's be very clear. When the Attorney General of the United
States says there will be an orderly wind down--I think those are the
terms he used. There is no such thing as an orderly wind down of DACA. There is disruption and destruction, already chaos and confusion,
terror among the young people who are living their lives now seemingly
on borrowed time. It is borrowed time because the President of the
United States has thrown a ticking timebomb into this body, in effect
playing chicken with their lives.
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