DACA BY ANOTHER NAME MIGHT SMELL NEARLY AS SWEET

"The Trump administration Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known as "DREAMers," who entered the country illegally as children... 

Duke said no current beneficiaries will be affected before March 5 of next year. But she said, "No new initial requests or associated applications filed after today will be acted on."....

The program did not provide lawful immigration status. Instead, through what the Obama administration characterized as the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, it granted a deferral from possibly being removed from the U.S. to those who qualified; it also granted work permits. The deferrals and permits were granted for two-year periods and could be renewed for additional two-year periods.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its enforcement priorities have not changed. It has no plans to target DACA holders as their permits expire. They will be eligible for deportation but a low priority." "

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/546423550/trump-signals-end-to-daca-calls-on-congress-to-act

We should all know by now that this white supremacist son of a b**** president wants black and browns out of the country. White Supremacist Nationalist Steve Bannon being forced out after Charlottesville didn't change that a bit. But I'm hoping he'll be satisfied with Congress creating the same program under a different name. 

I'm fairly certain that disassociating the black president's name from this program and replacing it with the same thing will make Trump look like a hero with only slight changes. But this will only come to pass if industries affected ( those with companies as big as  Apple, Amazon,Facebook) puts enough pressure on congress that DACA must be replaced. 

What replacing DACA probably requires on the front side is white people, on the left and the right, finally figuring out that money and white supremacy are Trump's only two motivators

...same as his base.

Nobody has to figure out what Trump followers are in favor of. It doesn't matter if Trump passes a single thing through Congress. What matters to Trump's white  base is that Trump is against the same things they are against. And they will applaud and cheer him if he makes moves to crush those non-white.

That's why they are dumb enough to cheer whenever he sends tough-guy messages out to North Korea  -- which is probably speeding up North Korea's nuclear program like nothing else.  

And you should never forget that people who are not-white are the ones most in danger if we wind up bombing North Korea -- because Trump his followers never forget this little detail because people who are not-white are less human to them.

Trump and his followers are for the macho toxic masculinity stomping of anybody not-white for so long as white lives are not at stake. 

As for DACA, the only thing that's going to save Mexican, Asian, Middle-eastern young adults that have been here since childhood is for industry to raise enough hell that they drown out the applause coming from Trump's white supremacist base. That's when the courts will act if they can act.

MUSLIM BAN skidded to a halt without white folks really coming together to understand how deep the white supremacy is in Trump's court. And maybe industry can put pressure on the courts to do the same thing to MEXICAN BAN PHASE 3* as they did to MUSLIM BAN without understanding the depth of white supremacy

But the slowness caused by white run news organizations to understand this is slowing our response time to everything Trump does. And that slowness in response time to Trump's actions, as well as the failure to understand his motivations, is a major part of why he is president today. The white press normalized him because the white majority wants to turn away from what is ugly about white culture since this country's inception. This turning away, led by the press (until it was too late?), is part of the reason this incompetent racist hasn't been forced from office.

But the thing at hand is DACA.

Let the games in court begin. Federal judges stopped the worst part of MUSLIM BAN. Federal judges also limited Trump's attacks on sanctuary cities. May they find enough legal standing to do the same thing to Trump's attack on DACA. But it seems less likely. If President Obama put DACA in place with an executive order it seems likely Trump can erase it with one.

That might mean Congress is our only hope.

Industry putting pressure on congress to replace it with something much the same might be the easiest way forward to protect people that have been here since childhood and probably feel like they are American as you and me.

Video: 1 minute

(What is DACA?)

My feelings about protecting DREAMERS are strong but there are conflicting issues for me as a black person. 

People who are here illegally --the mostly poor non-college going section-- tend to cut wages for the poor because being illegal makes them desperate. 

People who are here illegally and desperate which makes them live and work in conditions that Americans, including black Americans, won't. 

And this means some industries have workers at near-slave wages.

Industry being able to offer near-slave wages means black people, who have a much higher poverty rate, are less able to work their way out of poverty.

Furthermore, when paler-skinned immigrants get to immigrate here legally, they get to pass most of the way or all the way into whiteness like Steve Jobs.  And this has allowed and will allow a large chunk of immigrants to surpass blacks.

So letting immigrants into the country is not all good news for me and mine, not by a long shot. 

But President Obama took care of immigrant children because it was the right thing to do anyway. And I support DACA for the same reason.

If a legal path for citizenship is provided for poor immigrants while we cut off access for the relatively wealthy ones with one degree, two degrees or three, then the poor people in this country will be needed by industry. 

That is, without importing our brains from elsewhere, we'll have to educate the American people that already live here in order to have enough computer programmers and doctors and lawyers. And if we have to pull American people up into these positions that means there will be room at the bottom for poor immigrants. After the poor immigrants do the menial jobs for a generation, their children get to move up too.

That's how I was taught this country worked for white people in the 18th and 19th centuries. That's why "give us your tired, your poor, and your hungry" was written.

Doing the right thing by immigrants --especially those that need help-- is the same thing as doing right by ourselves. And if this president and his followers were anywhere near to being honorable Christians, he'd know that.  

Video: 5 minutes 

(What will happen to people like me, if DACA is cancelled)

I truly believe this world has been created in a such a way that we will hang together or hang separately.  

The other thing I believe is that Racism is treason, especially when it comes from the top.

So whenever I'm not praying for Trump to leave Washington D.C. for good, I wonder if maybe Trump needs to stay in office, crushing us one group at a time--including white people, until we all see this.

Until we see this we will not see that we need to sustain a BACK-TO-BACK ANTI-RACISM (and/or anti-ethnoracism) in order for the country to survive. We need to create a BACK-TO-BACK Feminism as well. Achieving these stances is going to take a radical self-examination from white people and a radical forgiveness from black and brown people in order to create and sustain both. 

We will hang together or we will hang separately.

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Mexican Ban Phase 1: Build That Wall

Mexican Ban Phase 2: Ice Deportation

Mexican Ban Phase 3: Ending DACA

Yes, more than Mexicans are affected by phases 1 and 2, but Mexicans are the main ones that White Supremacists are aiming to be rid of -- Muslim's too but that's what MUSLIM BAN is for