Would she be sent back to Mexico, where she knows no one, has no job or
connection? Will she go by plane or will she be forced to walk to the
border or maybe by car? We are talking about deportation--physical
ejection from the country--not a vague concept of maybe in a few years. We are talking about deportation of 800,000 people, beginning in 6
months, on a scale, a magnitude, and scope that is unprecedented in the
history of the United States of America--the same country that welcomed
my father at the age of 17, when he fled Germany to escape persecution
and knew virtually no one, had not much more than the shirt on his back
and spoke almost no English. Just as many of them came to this country
at a much younger age, and this country gave them, as it did my father,
a chance to succeed. There is no orderly way to wind down this program. There is only
grief, pain and suffering for those 800,000 Dreamers but also for the
rest of us, for our economy, for our sense of self and morality. As far as the rule of law is concerned, these young people are not
the lawbreakers. It is the Attorney General of the United States who is
wrong about the law but, more importantly, wrong to decline to defend
the law and prejudging, instead, what the result would be if this case
went to court, if those 10 attorneys general went to court on DACA to
prove their case, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Where does Attorney General Jeff Sessions have the power to prejudge
what the Supreme Court of the United States would do?
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