Active Now

Slartibartfast
Discussion » Questions » Politics » Congress has had ample time to legalize and legitimize DACA and has not done so. Why?

Congress has had ample time to legalize and legitimize DACA and has not done so. Why?

Posted - September 6, 2017

Responses


  • 7126
    Too busy playing politics to give a rat's behind about actually helping people.
      September 6, 2017 11:09 PM MDT
    7

  • 5614
    Aye, indeed. The people they help are themselves ;(
      September 6, 2017 11:20 PM MDT
    3

  • 34284
    It takes away the game.....there are many things that they love to talk about but never make it real. Because it is a talking point to get voters energized.
      September 7, 2017 4:51 AM MDT
    2

  • 5614
    Not exactly. Anything that goes before Congress becomes record. Many fear consequences either way they decide. Amnesty may be popular in media but will support for it allow many to keep their seats? Not so much strategy as it is fear and political survival. This post was edited by O-uknow at September 9, 2017 12:28 AM MDT
      September 8, 2017 9:37 PM MDT
    1

  • 34284
    Exactly on side uses it for thier base and the other for their base....with a few in the middle.
      September 9, 2017 7:18 AM MDT
    0

  • 53509

    This is the same group of already-wealthy people who have the legal ability to vote on their own pay raises yearly at taxpayer expense and have always voted affirmatively, and who also take extended "vacations" while important legislation festers. Deciding on DACA is apparently a low priority. 
    --
      September 7, 2017 5:38 AM MDT
    5

  • 87
    Because 99.9% of politicians today are more concerned about their own personal power and fortunes to ever be bothered with something as trivial as doing what is best for the country or those that elected them.

    This is why I will never believe a lawyer who becomes a politician. Both jobs were created for professional liars. And if you are both a lawyer and a politician, that's two strikes against you.
    This post was edited by RoseS at September 9, 2017 12:36 AM MDT
      September 7, 2017 6:59 AM MDT
    5

  • 2658
    The closest we came was the 2013 “Gang of Eight” Senate bill that, while imperfect, offered a bipartisan blueprint for dealing with immigrants who are in the country illegally, among other improvements in the law. That measure died in the House when Republican Speaker John A. Boehner refused to let it come to a vote...

    Trump should show some political courage and endorse immigration protection for Dreamers...

    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-immigration-dreamers-childhood-arrivals-20170718-story.html This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at September 7, 2017 10:46 AM MDT
      September 7, 2017 10:35 AM MDT
    0

  • 5614
    He needs a bill to not only endorse but a bill he can sign. Up to Congress to do it right and stop hiding behind a president. This post was edited by O-uknow at September 8, 2017 6:09 AM MDT
      September 7, 2017 10:02 PM MDT
    1

  • 2960
    They hate Mexicans.
      September 7, 2017 10:03 PM MDT
    0

  • 5614
    Who's they?
      September 7, 2017 10:06 PM MDT
    0

  • 2960
    The bad people.
      September 7, 2017 10:08 PM MDT
    1

  • 3191
    They all thought Clinton would win and it wouldn't be an issue for at least eight years.  
      September 8, 2017 9:55 PM MDT
    1

  • 53509
    Lol, good point!
    ~
      September 9, 2017 12:28 AM MDT
    1