Now we are at a point where we are trying to
figure out if we can fund the government either through a vote sometime
tomorrow or if there will be a shutdown tomorrow night. I have only been here for about 3 years, and I have been in politics
for 12 years. I find it interesting how things change overnight, how
things that were untenable or awful just a couple of months or a couple
of years ago are justified today based on the disagreement we have on
the DACA deal, which I am convinced we will get done before the March 5
deadline, and I hope sooner than that because there are a lot of good
kids who came to this Nation through no fault of their own, through a
decision made by an adult, who deserve a path to citizenship, who
deserve the respect of this Nation, and who should be welcome because
there are a lot of good kids. I will keep working on a solution, but now we have people who want to
distract us, not only to distract us from trying to negotiate a
reasonable outcome for DACA but adding the distraction and creating the
toxic environment that shutting down the government will cause. If we go back, what is amazing to me is that the very people who are
now saying we should shut down the government made these kind of
statements in the past. This is from former Speaker Pelosi in the
House: ``Not too long ago it was an unthinkable tactic to use in a
political debate.''
There is a long list of people.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that all DACA recipients are 'good kids'.