WAPO: A Political BOMB Is About To Blow Up In The Democrats’ Faces

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Star Member Segami (11,203 posts)

WAPO: A Political BOMB Is About To Blow Up In The Democrats’ Faces

This scoop from Jerry Markon and David Nakamura is going to scramble the politics of immigration in the presidential race, and it may create more problems for Democrats than for Republicans:

The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year, according to people familiar with the operation.

The nationwide campaign, to be carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as soon as early January, would be the first large-scale effort to deport families who have fled violence in Central America, those familiar with the plan said. More than 100,000 families with both adults and children have made the journey across the southwest border since last year, though this migration has largely been overshadowed by a related surge of unaccompanied minors.

The ICE operation would target only adults and children who have already been ordered removed from the United States by an immigration judge, according to officials familiar with the undertaking…The adults and children would be detained wherever they can be found and immediately deported. The number targeted is expected to be in the hundreds and possibly greater.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-plans-raids-to-deport-families-who-surged-across-border/2015/12/23/034fc954-a9bd-11e5-8058-480b572b4aae_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_immigration-920pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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Star Member WillyT (69,468 posts)
1. K & R !!!

 

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:07 AM
cali (105,818 posts)
2. Hillary will be as vague as possible on this in a typical attempt

to have it both ways.

Response to cali (Reply #2)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:17 AM
Star Member Segami (11,203 posts)
3.Star Member Segami (11,203 posts)
3. Her vagueness won't work.
Concerned families will want to hear where she stands with clarity, absent of political double talk.
Nice Christmas gift to immigrant families deeply concerned where their families will be tomorrow............

Star Member Motown_Johnny (19,145 posts)
4. I hate playing politics with this kind of thing, but....

since the entire post seems to be about the political impact this may have, the only choices are to address the politics or be off topic.


IMO, shining a light on just how bad the immigration policies of this nation are can only help us. If Boehner had brought up the Senate reform bill in The House then this might not have happened.

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:20 AM
Trajan (17,740 posts)
5. IT"S A POLITICAL NIGHTMARE !@

OH NOES !

What will we ever do ?

Shall I just up and quit now ? ... Is all lost ?

Shall I prepare to Welcome Donald 'Herr Fuehrer' Trump as our shoe-in President ?

I mean, after all .. HE hates those damned aliens as much as any WAPO reporter ...

Poor Bernie ... Caught in an inescapable web of political intrigues and machinations - He is POWERLESS against fear inducing headlines !

I am now so fearful .. I can barely move ...

Um .. Is that a donut ? .... GLOMP !

What was a saying ?

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:27 AM
NCTraveler (11,348 posts)
6. Focusing on our disastrous immigration policy will help us greatly...

And boost Clinton.

Sanders voted multiple times against a pathway to citizenship for over ten million people. He didn't even want it to have an up or down vote. With one of the cloture vote coming within four votes of moving forward, and the leadership people claim Sanders possesses, it's clear he could have swayed three more of his republican colleagues he was siding with. We had the votes if it got past cloture. Get that. Sanders didn't want it to even have a fair vote.

Clinton, Kennedy, Boxer, Biden, Obama: All voted for it. Millions of these great Americans would be citizens today if it weren't for Sanders opposition. That's if you believe he is the leader his supporters claim he is.

Yes, economics came first. So many are still living in the shadows because of Sanders leadership in opposing a pathway to citizenship for over ten million people. We were so damn close.

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:44 AM
Star Member Tierra_y_Libertad (46,699 posts)
7. It's time for the abuela to speak up to protect her nielos.

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 11:04 AM
Truprogressive85 (583 posts)
8. Oh my

These raids will focus on Central American who fled their homelands and escaping violence WTF 

Where is the compassion in this country and we have a so- called front runners one has called for a mass deportation and building a wall the other is on record calling for "sending child migrants back" to their where they were trying to escape from.

My, my, my looks like the Sandman sandbagged them leaving Hillary in the lurch.  Pity. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

DUmmtards, the Oministration wouldn't let this go forward if they thought it was going to hurt them.  These are fully-adjudicated cases with outstanding deportation order that are being ignored up until now.

The objective is obviously to appear to be 'Not sleeping at the switch after all' to the moderates, and keep them from fleeing to Trump or other immigration hard-liners.  The big question is whether the political calculus is correct on the Left; it's based on the legalistic assumption that since these cases have already been adjudicated, there should be no problem with their own base.  This assumption, in turn, is based on the rash assumption that the Leftist base thinks rationally and accepts the legality of any government action that runs counter to their emotionally-driven positions.

Now if the Left reacts like the berserk emo retards that they really are, I would not be surprised to see ICE (At the behind-the-scenes instigation of the White House) 'Reconsiders' or scales down this thing.  If that happens, the Leftist base will be only slightly mollified, but the Center and Right will have even less confidence in Democrats controlling the border than they already do.

[thundley4]

This story was only leaked because of the stories going around about how illegal deportations are at a 10 year low.

[DLR Pyro]

these stages "raids" are just window dressing to give the illusion that obama is tough on illegal immigration.  I predict there will be alot of fanfare and press coverage of buses full of illegals heading south to show obama has cleaned up the immigration mess.  What won't be shown on the news is the illegals arriving at some undisclosed location south of the border, getting off one bus and then quickly herded onto another bus which will be heading north back to the states in the middle of the night.

[98ZJUSMC]

our disastrous immigration policy

Is that what selective refusal to enforce existing legislation is called these days, Idiots?

Response to Segami (Original post)Thu Dec 24, 2015, 10:44 AM
Star Member Tierra_y_Libertad (46,699 posts)
7. It's time for the abuela to speak up to protect her nielos.

That little gerber burp of pandering has been a trick cigarillio for the Hoosegow Honey.
 

Millions of these great Americans would be citizens today if it weren't for Sanders opposition.

Oh, how terrible.

[obumazombie]

Our immigration policies should be designed and enforced to strengthen our country, not weaken it as lib policies do.