{"id":24513,"date":"2017-09-06T02:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24513"},"modified":"2017-09-06T02:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:38:30","slug":"trump-makes-our-heads-spin-over-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24513","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes our heads spin over DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DACA-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24439\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DACA-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DACA-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DACA-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My head is spinning. I feel almost like the Linda Blair character in the film &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump decides to rescind the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals executive order; he gives Congress six months to find a legislative solution.<\/p>\n<p>He then says he&#8217;ll &#8220;revisit&#8221; the issue if Congress fails to come up with a way to shield undocumented immigrants who were brought here by their parents when they were children.<\/p>\n<p>He does all this while &#8212; and this is truly mind-boggling &#8212; granting a full presidential pardon for a former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of breaking the law. &#8220;Sheriff Joe&#8221; Arpaio, the ex-Maricopa County sheriff, got a pardon after a judge convicted him of flouting a federal court order that banned him from rounding up individuals who he suspected of being illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; Trump rescinds DACA, then says he&#8217;ll &#8220;revisit&#8221; the issue, sending out a signal that he might take back his decision to rescind DACA order. He spoke this week of the feelings he has for DACA residents, how he &#8220;loves&#8221; them, how heavily the issue weighs on his heart.<\/p>\n<p>I might be inclined to believe the president on that score &#8212; except for the Arpaio pardon!<\/p>\n<p>Which is it, Mr. President? In what direction is this individual leaning?<\/p>\n<p>There goes my head again. It&#8217;s spinning.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My head is spinning. I feel almost like the Linda Blair character in the film &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221; Donald Trump decides to rescind the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals executive order; he gives Congress six months to find a legislative solution. He then says he&#8217;ll &#8220;revisit&#8221; the issue if Congress fails to come up with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump makes our heads spin over DACA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7071,1424,2250,7266],"class_list":["post-24513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-daca","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration-reform","tag-joe-arpaio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513\/revisions\/24514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}