Kicking The Kids Out

OBAMA'S DEFERRED ACTION ON CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS (DACA) was possibly his way of atoning, in his mind, for the fact that he ordered the deportation of two and a half million illegal residents. Or perhaps it was his way of atoning for the fact that he ordered drones to attack targets in Pakistan which killed hundreds of innocent people, thereby making himself a war criminal. Or, maybe Obama believed that id a child was brought illegally into the United States without having anything to say about it, that child should not be kicked out of the country now that she has completed high school, received a scholarship to Harvard, and is currently working towards an advanced degree in medical science. Trump, quite predictably, rescinded the executive order, only to inform congress that he will kindly give them six months during which to arrive at a permanent solution. Whatever Obama did, Trump, by his very nature, must undo. Who knows, maybe Trump was born in Kenya, and is not qualified to be president. He sent out his A. G. Jeff Sessions, who told us that because of Obama's actions, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children had headed north to the American border. This is a lie; the mass migration began long before DACA. Sessions, content to press on in fantasy, further informed us that because of DACA, there has been a soaring crime rate among illegal residents. Another lie; the actual crime rate among illegal participants in American society is actually far lower than among those of us with proper papers. Anything to reduce the number of people who are potential democrats. There isn't a shred of evidence to indicate that illegal aliens take jobs away from American citizens. there is, however, considerable evidence showing that they are productive in expanding the American economy, that they pay into the social Security system without taking anything out of it, and that they work hard, and give American businesses the opportunity to sell more products to more people. Kicking them out shrinks the economy. But who cares about all that? Donald J. Trump, with his morass of conflicts of business interests, profiting personally in his businesses from the presidency, is ever the stickler for the law.