Ted Cruz Has A Short Memory…

In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision to allow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to stand for now, many members of the Republican elected officialdom are very unhappy. It is important to remember that they didn’t weigh in on the legality of DACA itself, but…

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Government Shutdown: Trump Owns This One

The Senate didn’t pass the budget extension act that had passed the House earlier in the week and the federal government went into its first shutdown since 2013. Pointing fingers and the blame game started even before it was obvious that an agreement wouldn’t be reached. Of course the federal…

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DACA Statement from President Donald J. Trump Annotated

The Washington Post provided an annotated version of the president’s statement on the repeal of DACA. Click here to find the document and a video of Attorney General Jeff Sessions looking about as smugly proud of himself as he can be. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was instituted…

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It’s Time To Abolish DACA!

Ok, take a deep breath and calm down. I am not suggesting for a moment that the Trump administration round up and deport dreamers. Actually I am proposing exactly the opposite. What we should be doing is granting green cards to all of the dreamers. They were brought to the…

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