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DACA Advocates Pressure Democrats To Shut Down Government

DACA Advocates Pressure Democrats To Shut Down Government

“You have an unfolding crisis in which young American kids are losing jobs and being exposed to deportation”

It doesn’t look like Congress is going to act on Obama’s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) any time soon.  Listless Congressional Democrats, pressured by their base and DACA advocates, are reportedly mulling over attaching it to a budget bill in the hopes that they can pull enough GOP support to squeeze it through.

The idea is that such a move will force the hand of Republicans who want to avoid a government shutdown over DACA.  The CBO released a report last Friday that estimated DACA passage would cost American taxpayers $25.9 billion over the next decade.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

Democrats in Congress are growing increasingly pessimistic that an agreement to protect young immigrants from deportation can be reached this year.

While U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, says it would take a miracle to get a deal done before lawmakers leave for the holidays later this week, immigration advocates are holding out hope that an agreement can be reached in the Senate by tying the fix to the must-pass budget bill, which could force action in the House.

. . . . Cesar Espinosa, executive director of the immigrant rights organization FIEL Houston, said that he has seen congressional support dwindling as the year winds down – even from Democrats and progressives.

. . . . “We’re trying to put as much leverage on Republicans as we can, but they are saying early next year. I was hoping we could do it by the end of the year and maybe a miracle will happen, but I don’t see it right now,” said Cuellar, a moderate in his party. “I hate to put it so cold, but do you shut down the government for 800,000 people at the expense of 320 million Americans? That’s really what you’re looking at.”

Advocates for illegal aliens are once again rebranding their cause.  They’ve worked hard to change the language used to describe illegal aliens from “illegal alien.”

They have chosen a number of less-precise and more misleading terms like “undocumented alien” and “undocumented immigrant,” to “immigrant,” and now, apparently, to “American.”

The Houston Chronicle continues:

The nearly 800,000 so-called “Dreamers” in jeopardy since the Trump administration canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have pressed for resolution before the end of the year. President Donald Trump gave Congress until early March to write legislation restoring protections, a date GOP leaders in Congress see as affording sufficient time for a solution.

“You have an unfolding crisis in which young American kids are losing jobs and being exposed to deportation, and Republican leadership is saying we can kick the can down the road,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, an immigrant advocacy group.

The term “American” is being disconnected from immigration and citizenship status.  If you can wake up one morning and decide you’re a different gender or race, I guess you can wake up and declare yourself an American citizen as well.

Congressional Republicans, however, do not appear to be swayed by the Democrats’ implicit, if unenthusiastic, threat of a government shutdown.

The Daily Caller reports:

To force the issue, DACA advocates are pressuring their Democratic allies to tie amnesty provisions to a must-pass spending bill due later this week.

But Republicans have dug in their heels, presenting a unified front against the idea of inserting DACA amnesty into a budget deal. House Speaker Paul Ryan managed to secure 221 Republican votes earlier this month for a continuing resolution without DACA provisions, passing the measure with 14 Democratic votes.

Now, as lawmakers attempt to hammer out another spending deal, Republicans again appear to have the votes to pass a bill without having to address the DACA issue. As the Friday deadline approaches, some Democrats concede that using the threat of a government shutdown to get a DACA amnesty is unlikely to sway Republicans.

Despite the improbability of DACA’s passage, seven jailed Dreamers are participating in a hunger strike in an effort to push Congress to act on DACA.  They are also reportedly refusing to leave jail until DACA is passed into law.

CBS News reports:

A group of Dreamers — including a former Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign staffer, Erika Andiola — have been on a hunger strike since they were arrested Friday after a sit-in at the Capitol, at the office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. The Dreamers are vowing to continue their hunger strike until Schumer and GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida win enough votes in the Senate and the House to delay a vote on the spending bill and force a vote on a clean DREAM Act. They’re pushing for a vote on such a bill on Dec. 22, the date when lawmakers must pass a new spending bill in order to avert a government shutdown.

. . . .  According to Andiola’s Twitter account, she, along with six other Dreamers and one ally in their cause will be held in a Washington, D.C. jail until at least Tuesday. Andiola says that when they appeared in court, the government requested a hold “in response to their noncooperation.” The Dreamers’ attorneys, complying with their clients’ wishes, didn’t oppose the hold. The group of protesters also believes that ICE has been contacted about Andiola, and therefore faces the risk of deportation.

The eight say they will not leave jail without a clean DREAM Act, which seems unlikely to happen in the next few days.

If that doesn’t work, they plan to sing “Henry the Eighth I am” until they get their way.

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Comments

“You have an unfolding crisis in which young American kids are losing jobs…

Quick clarification: they’re NOT American…

    Matt_SE in reply to MTED. | December 18, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    What this means is that the people making this claim are abject liars, and nobody can trust a word they say.

      notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital in reply to Matt_SE. | December 19, 2017 at 12:26 pm

      “It’s Always Daca, Daca, Daca!!!!!”

      For the last time, I do not care what Hillary’s Depends are full of……..

    Granny in reply to MTED. | December 18, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    AMEN! Each and every one is an illegal alien. DACA allows them to take jobs that should be going to REAL American kids, many of whom are unemployed.

what MTED said: those are NOT American children. they are illegal aliens, present in this country in violation of federal law, and they should ALL be deported forthwith.

if the Demonrats want to go to the wall on this issue, let them. good way to make sure you lose in 2018 AND re-elect Trump in 2020 when he vetoes the bill.

😎

Subotai Bahadur | December 18, 2017 at 8:23 pm

1) they are not “young Americans”. They are hostile foreign invaders.
2) The only reason the Republicans have not openly joined in the Democrat efforts to encourage and enable the hostile foreign invasion is that as much as they really want to, and even though dozens of Republican Congress-critters have signed a petition to grant Amnesty, instant citizenship, and chain migration rights is because right now there is no reason to vote FOR Republicans in 2018, and this would change that to definitive reasons to vote AGAINST them prior to using stockpiles of hemp rope and a great deal of musketry if they are seen in public.

If the Republicans allow or enable it, the red line [ours, which means something, not theirs which doesn’t] will have been crossed.

So, the Dems are toying with the idea of achieving renown as the party which benefits pretend-“Americans” rather than, like, you know, actual Americans.

No, not even the Dems are dumb enough to go for that. They’ll talk up a storm, but that’ll be the end of it. Unless of course they can stampede the Republicans … as usual …

I think we have far too much government. I think in the event of a shutdown, Trump will easily be able to press this point to the public as he demonstrates how few services people missed.

I don’t see a downside here.

Let them shut down the government and furlough those nonessential employees and when it opens up again, forget to tell them to return.

Subotai Bahadur | December 19, 2017 at 1:30 am

If they do shut down the government, as noted furlough the non-essential, and anyone who is sent home DOES NOT get back pay for the time they do not work; unlike all previous shutdowns when it just turned into a paid vacation.

    If you scratch the surface enough, you’ll find just about everyone in that rotten corrupt town would be properly classified as “non-essential”. Even better would be to classify them as “worthless”.

    Begin the RIF action if the Government is shut down. That will give the peeps a chance to look for a new job and will entitle them to some monetary benefits. No sense is unduly attacking these people because the democrats are more interested in their agenda than the American workers inside or outside of Government.

      rdmdawg in reply to rabidfox. | December 20, 2017 at 12:40 am

      as after 2 terms of obama, the 5 richest counties in the US are now in the Washington DC metro area, I have no tears to shed over these over-paid bureaucrats.

So these Dreamers are claiming to be Americans, that they are lawful and good people, and that America would do well to make these people citizens because of their abilities and value as a group, but if Congress doesn’t vote them into being citizens this week, then they want to shut down the government and start the first steps to destroying this country. So these are people we should want as citizens? They sound more like spoiled petulant children throwing a temper tantrum and that this tantrum is precisely why they should NOT be voted into citizenship. Perhaps they should grow up first.

I dunno what everyone is getting so excited about.

Remember, the President has always been for amnesty.

He could have, and promised to, end DACA “immediately”. He lied.

    No, he didn’t lie. He rescinded Obama’s illegal EO, and then returned the lawmaking to Congress, where it belonged.

    Funny lawyer who doesn’t recognize rule of law…

      Ragspierre in reply to SDN. | December 19, 2017 at 7:21 pm

      Did he do ANYTHING about Dreamers “immediately”, as he promised?

      No.

      Are the Dreamers still here?

      Yes.

      When he threatened Congress, he promised to revisit the issue under his own power, like Barracula, if they didn’t jump to his tune.

      I hope they stuff it back in his tiny hands, making him do what he promised, and has NOT done.

      Ragspierre in reply to SDN. | December 19, 2017 at 7:27 pm

      Oh, and under “the rule of law”, they should all have been gone by now.

      Or did you miss that in your drive to apologize for your cult leader?

“A group of Dreamers — including a former Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign staffer, Erika Andiola — have been on a hunger strike since they were arrested Friday after a sit-in at the Capitol, at the office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”

Are you telling me that Chuck Schumer’s office in the Capitol isn’t a Sanctuary Office?

Ahhh, the 800,000 dreamers are pressing for resolution…
How can they do that? It isn’t like they can vote…
then again….

    notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital in reply to amwick. | December 19, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    You know they’ve already been voting for Democrats multiple times in even one election!

    Snark.

CaliforniaJimbo | December 19, 2017 at 11:59 am

We were lectured by many on the left that we shouldn’t mess with the full faith and credit of the US government. We were also told many times during the Obama administration to pass a clean CR and not tie deficit reduction or anything else we wanted to it.
Democratic lawmakers: pass a clean debt celiling extension and don’t mess with the full faith and credit of the US government. Shut down the government at your own peril

    pass a clean debt celiling extension

    Unfortunately, digging the debt hole ever deeper with no limit in sight is not a solution to anything, either.

    What can’t go on forever, won’t.

notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital | December 19, 2017 at 12:24 pm

“….DACA passage would cost American taxpayers Several Hundreds of Trillions of Dollars in the next few years….” – THERE! FIXED IT FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

buckeyeminuteman | December 19, 2017 at 2:02 pm

A hunger strike? Why should anybody care if you eat or not. That’s like saying, “I’m going to break your laws. If you don’t let me break your laws, I’m not going to eat.”

They have to go back. Oh and build the wall.