{"id":30602,"date":"2018-06-28T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30602"},"modified":"2018-06-28T01:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:36:50","slug":"dreamers-are-still-caught-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30602","title":{"rendered":"‘Dreamers’ are still getting kicked around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oh, man, I hate that so-called “Dreamers” keep getting kicked around like the political football they have become.<\/p>\n

It happened yet again as the U.S. House of Representatives voted down a compromise immigration bill that, among other things, gave Dreamers a “pathway to U.S. citizenship.” Conservatives saw that “pathway” provision and translated it to “amnesty.” They would have none of it.<\/p>\n

This bill also included money for a wall. I don’t give a damn about the wall, other than I hate the idea of it. My thought today is about the Dreamers.<\/p>\n

Dreamers are those who came this country as the children of illegal immigrant parents who brought them across the border in the search for a better life. They were granted a temporary reprieve from deportation by President Obama who signed an executive order creating the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, aka DACA.<\/p>\n

DACA residents deserve that pathway. They shouldn’t be deported because their parents brought them here. Many of them were babies. They know no other country. They are de facto Americans.<\/p>\n

But in the Age of Trump<\/a>, all illegal immigrants — even DACA residents — are now thought to be criminals. They need to be deported.<\/p>\n

This is heartless. It is inhumane. It is un-American.<\/p>\n\n

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Oh, man, I hate that so-called “Dreamers” keep getting kicked around like the political football they have become. It happened yet again as the U.S. House of Representatives voted down a compromise immigration bill that, among other things, gave Dreamers a “pathway to U.S. citizenship.” Conservatives saw that “pathway” provision and translated it to “amnesty.” … Continue reading ‘Dreamers’ are still getting kicked around<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[7071,7312,2245,4728],"class_list":["post-30602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-daca","tag-dreamers","tag-immigration","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602","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=30602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30609,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions\/30609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}