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if we get no DACA bill and some dreamers are forced to leave, is there any chance that (Original Post) bluestarone Jan 2018 OP
as long as you you have 2/3 vote to override a veto. Unforutnately, the time to have done this was still_one Jan 2018 #1
Yeah, that was the time to preserve these lives, our courts, everything. But to a whole lotta folk Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #2
He has to sign anything... regnaD kciN Jan 2018 #3
yea agree these people are gonna go thru a living HELL bluestarone Jan 2018 #4

still_one

(91,945 posts)
1. as long as you you have 2/3 vote to override a veto. Unforutnately, the time to have done this was
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:00 PM
Jan 2018

2016 when some self-identified progressives decided not to vote for the Democratic nominee because the Supreme Court, DACA, the environment, Civil Rights, Workers Rights, Women's rights, Gay and transgender rights, etc. etc. etc. were just not that important to them at the time


Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. Yeah, that was the time to preserve these lives, our courts, everything. But to a whole lotta folk
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:03 PM
Jan 2018

it wasnt important enough.

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
3. He has to sign anything...
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jan 2018

...plus, as I understand it, if you're deported for being here illegally (as all Dreamers will be), you get a mark on your record banning you from entering the U.S. legally for the rest of your life.

In addition, even if that were overcome, you're talking about people who have been ripped away from their communities with only the clothes on their back, and dumped unceremoniously in the middle of the night in places like Juarez or Tijuana (in a country most of them have never known). If, some time down the road, we were able to reverse the cancellation of DACA, how many of them would be in a condition to be able to return? How many of them might not even be alive anymore?

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