Back in America, writing this blog in Arizona, a state whose immigration policies I criticized in Custom Maid Revolution for New World Disorder and the home state of senators McCain and Flake — two senators who support immigration reform – and who have drawn Trump’s wrath – I couldn’t help ponder over a few drinks with glassmates on Prescott’s Whisky Row, why Senator Chuck Schumer and former speaker Nancy Pelosi were laughing and so touchy-feely with Trump in the White House, especially after the president flicked DACA over to Congress for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan to tackle in march 2018, three months before the midterm election primaries.
The criticism the president has received for his six month pass of DACA to Congress overlooks the obvious reasons. The reason Schumer and Pelosi were chuckling with Trump.
Forget about budget agreements, debt-ceiling with money for hurricane victims, defense budgets, infrastructure, taxes, or education. They are a given. I am just going to share my thoughts on DACA and dreamers.
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised Dreamers he would take care of them and they had nothing to worry about. They don’t!
DACA was sent to Congress where the leaders of both parties are clamoring for its passage – for now.
What will McConnell and Ryan do when the time to vote comes in March? Will they follow through on their current rhetoric that supports Dreamers and immigration reform, at the risk of alienating their republican base with the midterm elections looming, or again renege on their promises and stay true to their conservative anti-immigrant supporters and kick the can down the road until after the midterm elections – to the delight of the democrats?
In either case, it’s a win-win for the democrats who are strong supporters of DACA. If republicans decide to support DACA, democrats get their way and win, but if republicans choose to oppose DACA, democrats have a chance to also win the congressional seats necessary to recapture Congress that will result in Schumer and Pelosi replacing McConnell and Ryan. A good reason for them to be laughing with Trump at his Republican Party adversaries.
The only way for America to become first again is for the career politicians of both Democratic and Republican parties to come together in the bipartisan coalition that made America great in the first place. There are enough Congressional representatives in both parties that can work with Trump to make America Great Again.
So, who will have the last laugh?