John Kelly Recieves Backlash For Saying Some Dreamers Are 'Lazy'
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The Trump administration has often times left parents shutting off their televisions, shielding their children from hearing vulgar remarks that often times are quite insulting to large groups of American citizens or non-citizens.
President Trump himself has called African countries 'sh*tholes', has been featured in a leaked Access Hollywood video encouraging the illegal vaginal groping of women, saying 'grab them by the pu**y', alongside many others. Chief of Staff John Kelly is usually not on this side of the news, but today, he stole the spotlight.
To be clear, we fully expect this story to be out of the headlines by tomorrow. However, today John Kelly stole the spotlight of the White House's daily-vulgarity, calling illegal immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA 'people who didn't want to get off their asses'.
He recieved criticism nation-wide for this statement, many citing he's failed to realize the seriousness of the immigrants' causes and why they have escaped their nations, also citing he doesn't know the real reason why they didn't sign up for DACA.
Kelly was referencing the Trump administration's pitch to the Democratic party increasing the number of Dreamer recipients saved in a potential immigration bill from around 600,000 to 1.8 million people.
"The difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up," he told reporters, sparking extreme backlash.
Many Republicans have unfairly treated immigrants into the United States like political pawns to get what they want. In fact, Trump himself proposed a pathway to legal citizenship for Dreamers if, and only if, he gets his border wall and security.
Kelly failed during his speech to tell himself that Dreamers, in particular, didn't all come forward to the Obama government and hand in all of their information in absolute fear they'd be put in a situation the Trump administration put them in within months of his inauguration back in January.
See, these Dreamers have lived in the shadows and not been official beings in the United States for years. Dreamers are those of which immigrated as children and had no control on their parents' decisions to come here illegally. One thing about making themselves public was the fear that came with the possibility of a crackdown.
Trump has since decided he disliked Dreamers, threatening to kick them all out though noticeably had a 'soft spot' from the first moment he researched them.
Now using them as political pawns, he is still threatening the legal status of nearly two million people of which his administration did not obtain rights of their information, but Obama, who made a promise to them, did years ago.
Once again, these people of which were not immigrants by choice are forced with the feeling of being ripped apart from their families and homes and the country they've lived in for a majority of their lives in less than a month.
One way to stop it? According to Democrats, a DACA-fixed deal. According to Republicans? An immigration deal. According to Trump? All of his demands.