It is
simply not credible. Budget negotiations are not the only place where Republicans haven't
engaged in a productive way. President Trump's decision to end the DACA
Program has put nearly 800,000 Dreamers in this country in an untenable
position. The decision was as cruel as it was senseless. It may make a
tweet that people look at, but if you are one of those Dreamers and you
are on your way to school and are expecting a scholarship to college
and you don't know if you are going to be in this country tomorrow,
that is not a tweet. The President should have worked with Congress. He should have found
a permanent legislative solution while keeping DACA protections in
place. I believe he terminated the program under false pretenses,
yielding to xenophobic voices in his administration, and last night a
Federal judge issued an order that said just that: Terminating DACA was
not required under the law--far from it. But a court order that only
temporarily halts the administration from dismantling DACA provides
little comfort to Dreamers. They live each and every day uncertain of
the future and with fear of deportation. Now, I have heard Members of the Senate trying to decide at what time
we are going to finish voting for the week. Their big fear is this: Are
we going to make our flight home?
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