Sessions rescinds DACA

[CaliCat 3,957]

13 minutes ago, Mrs. Wild said:

I have read it, please point me in the right direction if I've done something wrong.  I simply don't understand the discrimination and/or hostility toward one group of immigrants over any other. I support anyone trying to do the right thing by submitting to the lengthy processes of the immigration system. DACA recipients do such a thing, given the limited scope of what is available to them.

 

 

You have not done anything wrong. It is ironic that this is an immigration site, and yet, there is so much animosity towards immigrants. 

 

[Boiler 46,121]

Just now, CaliCat said:

 

You have not done anything wrong. It is ironic that this is an immigration site, and yet, there is so much animosity towards immigrants. 

 

Huh?

 

Perhaps there is a hidden part of the site we do not have access to.

[Mrs. Wild 87]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

Total tosh, I am not an American and never will be and have no doubt been here much longer than most of them.

Perhaps that's how you feel, and that's valid. There are many immigrants in America who will always identify more with the nationality of their home country. To most DACA recipients, this may not be their country of birth, but seeing as how the average came under the age of 6... They grew up here during their formative years, they're American by any other definition other.

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Total tosh, I am not an American and never will be and have no doubt been here much longer than most of them.

 

Precisely. Time has nothing to do with it. American is the flag they pledge allegiance to; America is the only country they know, American are their values. They are Americans, because being Americans is all they know. Some people are that lucky. 

Edited September 7, 2017 by CaliCat

[jayjayj 571]

16 minutes ago, Mrs. Wild said:

I have read it, please point me in the right direction if I've done something wrong.  I simply don't understand the discrimination and/or hostility toward one group of immigrants over any other. I support anyone trying to do the right thing by submitting to the lengthy processes of the immigration system. DACA recipients do such a thing, given the limited scope of what is available to them.

 

 

It is neither discrimination nor hostility.  They did not wait in line to come here, regardless of whatever line they might be in now.  Their parents brought them across the border illegally.  You and I didn't make that decision for them.  Their parents made that decision.  The bad guys in the situation, the people who put them in this situation, their parents.  

[Boiler 46,121]

2 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

Precisely. Time has nothing to do with it. American is the flag they pledge allegiance to; America is the only country they know, American are their values. They are Americans, because being Americans is all they know. Some people are that lucky. 

[jayjayj 571]

6 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

You have not done anything wrong. It is ironic that this is an immigration site, and yet, there is so much animosity towards immigrants. 

 

You do realize this is a site for legal immigration right?  What is ironic?  I'm sure there are sites out there for illegal immigration, you should find those sites and go help some people.

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 minute ago, jayjayj said:

You do realize this is a site for legal immigration right?  What is ironic?  I'm sure there are sites out there for illegal immigration, you should find those sites and go help some people.

 

I stand corrected.  The right word is "hypocritical." Thanks. 

Edited September 7, 2017 by CaliCat

[Jacque67 7,328]

Just now, CaliCat said:

 

I stand corrected.  The right word is hypocritical. Thanks. 

💥🌊

[jayjayj 571]

5 minutes ago, Mrs. Wild said:

Perhaps that's how you feel, and that's valid. There are many immigrants in America who will always identify more with the nationality of their home country. To most DACA recipients, this may not be their country of birth, but seeing as how the average came under the age of 6... They grew up here during their formative years, they're American by any other definition other.

Except not by the only definition that gives them legal standing.  

Just now, CaliCat said:

 

I stand corrected.  The right word is "hypocritical." Thanks. 

You do realize this is a site for legal immigration right?  What is hypocritical?  I'm sure there are sites out there for illegal immigration, you should find those sites and go help some people.

[Teddy B 17,252]

1 minute ago, jayjayj said:

It is neither discrimination nor hostility. 

For most it is about discrimination and/or hostility. There's really no other way to explain why someone would be against DACA without being discriminant to the people in the program and/or hostile by wanting to tear their families apart and send these people away from the only country they've ever really known all the while through no fault of their own.

[Mrs. Wild 87]

2 minutes ago, jayjayj said:

Except not by the only definition that gives them legal standing.  

Unfortunately

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, Teddy B said:

For most it is about discrimination and/or hostility. There's really no other way to explain why someone would be against DACA without being discriminant to the people in the program and/or hostile by wanting to tear their families apart and send these people away from the only country they've ever really known all the while through no fault of their own.

Teddy 2020!

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 minutes ago, jayjayj said:

Except not by the only definition that gives them legal standing.  

You do realize this is a site for legal immigration right?  What is hypocritical?  I'm sure there are sites out there for illegal immigration, you should find those sites and go help some people.

 

Definition of hypocritical

1. :  characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel :  characterized by hypocrisy said that it was hypocritical to demand respect from students without respecting them in returna hypocritical gesture of modesty and virtue — Robert Graves; also :  being a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings :  being a hypocrite

 

[jayjayj 571]

Just now, Teddy B said:

For most it is about discrimination and/or hostility. There's really no other way to explain why someone would be against DACA without being discriminant to the people in the program and/or hostile by wanting to tear their families apart and send these people away from the only country they've ever really known all the while through no fault of their own.

There is another way to explain it.  Many people on here support legal immigration, not illegal immigration.  That isn't an emotional argument.