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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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Trump has this very well covered - Great wooding!!! Thanks for posting Jack.
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CMSgt Security Forces
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Democrats are too focused on bringing down Trump to let some executive order on family separation rain on their parade. It has become painfully obvious Congress has no appetite for solving immigration.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/beto-orourke-immigration-cnntv/index.html
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
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And what do you mean by "solve immigration" exactly?
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I'm no expert but inciting racial tensions is probably not a solution...unless you're a Democrat running for the US Senate.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
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CMSgt (Join to see) - What bothers you more, the racist aspects of this situation, or that someone pointed it out? Perhaps it would have been better to let it remain in the undertones rather than exposing it on the surface. It makes people uncomfortable and puts them on the defensive. Everyone knows it is there, but it is probably better if no one says anything about it. If it is exposed and pulled out into the open, the response will be to start making big speeches about walls across our northern border, that Canada will pay for - obviously; and to start seperating children from parents who illegally cross up north... you know, to oppose the thought or perception that there is anything racist going on here. I get your point.

But that still doesn't really address what "solving" immigration looks like. Are we talking about an immigration policy that everyone will agree with?
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No, my point is that politicians and the media have polarized immigration to the point that any pragmatic discussion is off the table. This has morphed into a single focus...attack Trump. The Dems will attempt to leverage this discourse going into the mid-terms. Immigration and the families separated at the border have become nothing more than political fodder. DACA is in the same boat.

The focus of my comment was not on racism, I was referring to the executive order that is the subject of this thread and critics who prefer to inject rhetoric instead of presenting a palatable solution. O'Rourke offers no solution, he simply claims Trump is a racist and then criticizes the ORR. Welcome to the new Democratic platform. Didn't work in 2016 and is not looking good for the mid-terms.

I suspect that if you dislike Trump and think he is a racist then O'Rourke is right in your wheelhouse. Meanwhile his political grandstanding does nothing to move the issue forward. Did you read the executive order? Seems reasonable to me. Congress needs to step in and do their jobs. I would have preferred FEMA or another civilian entity to handle the displacement issue instead of DoD.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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I read it earlier and it is brilliant. Puts the onus back on Congress where it belongs.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
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Brilliant? Really?
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