Don The Bankrupt Builder Tears Down DACA, Then Punts

(Sometimes I think I should rename this blog "What the Hell Has the Orange-Tufted Lunatic Done Now?")
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Yesterday our fake president catered once again to his small but loyal moron base by rescinding DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, instituted in 2012 by executive order from President Obama.  DACA stopped deportations of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, and allowed them to legally live and work in this country for renewable two-year periods.  Tweetle Dumb gave Congress six months to come up with an actual law, or DACA renewals will cease, meaning 800,000 people would then face deportation.

Killing DACA is an alt-right, white-wing ideological litmus test.  The idea makes the Breitbart crowd pop wood.  It's no coincidence Jefferson Beauregard Sessions was trotted out to give us the news.  The Racist Jughead has made a career of being anti-immigration -- he hates not just undocumented immigrants, but all immigrants.  Sessions has always been an uncompromising, deport 'em all asshole.  He led the successful fight against a 2007 George W. Bush immigration bill which would have given legal status and a path to citizenship for our 12 million undocumented immigrants.  The white nationalists have adored Sessions ever since, so the Bigoted Cookie Elf was a natural choice to make yesterday's announcement.

Beauregard enjoyed his moment at the podium, but there is overwhelming bipartisan opposition to ending DACA.  That's because doing so is cruel, unnecessary, and economically harmful to the country.  The potential deportees are working, attending school, purchasing homes, starting businesses, buying goodas and services and paying taxes.

Trump punted to Congress, giving them a slim chance to do something legislatively.  But Obama acted by executive order because it was the only thing available to him -- Republican leaders have for years refused to support any major immigration laws.  The bipartisan DREAM Act would have offered permanent legal residency to the undocumented.  It was first introduced in 2001, and has gone nowhere.  Dubya's 2007 bill was scuttled by Sessions-led R's.  What are the chances Congress will now get it done in six months?

We are better than this.  Can the same be said of today's Congressional Republicans?  We're about to find out.  A clean DREAM Act not tied to the stupid wall or any other crackpot conserva-tard impulse would be ideal.

Failing that, we toss the bastards out in the 2018 mid-terms, then get rid of Trump in the 2020 general, if he's not already in jail by then.