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  Immigration The immigration crackdown began last night with raids in sanctuary cites including New York City. Over 500 undocumented migrants wanted for outstanding crimes were arrested. This would be the beginning of the immigration policy under the Trump administration. I wonder what took so long with arresting these migrants that have committed crimes. It is an interesting system. It is important to consider the percentage of migrants that commit crimes is low compared to those migrants that come to this country to work for their families. Migrants from Mexico can make $10-15 dollar an hour for a day’s work. Compared to making $10 a day for similar work in their country. In a month they can earn enough money to help their family in Mexico buy a car. This is one reason to come to the United States to work. The immigration system needs to be overhauled. This should include pathways for guest workers and other migrants that are hard working. This should also include pathwa...

This past weekend we witnessed the dysfunction of Washington, of the Republican controlled congress, of the President and of the Democratic Party. Our leaders in Washington were trying to make a deal. A deal with the author of the Art of the Deal. Meetings and meetings and no deal. Commercials and tweets blaming each other. Tweets applauding the other party, then tweets saying that they caved. That’s like a bully hitting you in the stomach then asking if you are ok. Then hitting you again. Is the blame game for them or for their political base? Who looks better in this shutdown? Part of the deal is what to do with DACA recipients. They should have nothing to do with the government shutdown. The border wall should have nothing to do with this shutdown. For whatever reason, both issues are part of the “Deal.” So, if no deal is reached by February 8 th , who will be at fault? The problem that I have is that if no deal is reached then nothing good comes of this for Dreamers or...

Trump made the "shithole" comment in an Oval Office meeting after lawmakers suggested restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and several African nations. According to Trump these are the shithole countries. The comment is inappropriate. He needs to apologize for the remark as soon as possible, wait, it is already too late to apologize. What is frightening to me is that the white house did not apologize in their statement regarding the comment. Some media members also came to the defense of Trump’s inappropriate comment. Fox News Hosts Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters defended Trump’s comments. Carlson stated, “Why can’t he say that?” While, Watters argued that the "forgotten men and women" who make up the president's base would approve of the comment. This comment alarms me. It is one thing to defend the comment, but to say that a group of people would also approve is worse. The sad part about Watters remarks are they are true. It is ...

Immigration reform, again, was the big news story today. President Trump met with Republicans and Democrats to discuss a solution for 700,000 people that might face deportation if Congress does not fix DACA. The meeting was streamed online as if it were a reality show. Don’t we already have C-SPAN? The topic of Immigration always comes up when no other political issues need to be solved. This time a fix to DACA might be tied to a bill to avoid a government shutdown. Immigration has not be a political issue alone. The issue is raised before election for the House or the Senate or before the Presidential election. The issue is raised to either get votes from those who support immigration or to get votes from those that do not support immigration. Politicians will first take a side depending on the votes that they need. Politicians do not put the people affect by immigration reform or DACA.   Now the issue is upfront for the next 10 days. It is an issue because of a government ...