Erickson's opinion column in the Times Picayune of January 14 titled, "Congress should take immigration off the table represents the same old conservative ditto head fake news of President Trump and the GOP. He says congress should let those immigrants under DACA (dreamers) stay, take the issue off the table for now and take it up later His total remarks in the article are silly and full of holes Actually, Trump can settle the "dreamers" issue himself by telling congress he will not deport them. He himself created the problem by cancelling DACA but Erickson 's article is silent on the issue.
Erickson says neither the republicans or democrats want to finalize the issue and points to the fact that President George W. Bush wanted to take up the immigration matter in 2005 but the GOP had no consensus on what to do. Then he makes the silly and fake news statement that the democrats controlled everything in 2009 and did nothing because they wasted time passing the ACA. Actually, the democrats did a lot when they controlled the Presidency and congress in 2009. They passed President Obama's economic pan, the stimulus, bank regulations and other needed policies that moved the country out of the great republican recession of 2008,
The real news Erickson was silent on was the fact that the democratic controlled U.S. Senate did pass immigration reform that died in the republican controlled U.S. House by not allowing the measure to be introduced in the House. Erickson also fails to point out the republican party controlled both houses of congress for four years during the George W. Bush administration and did nothing concerning immigration. Trump and the GOP can find a quick solution to the DACA issue they created by following the democratic lead on the matter. Instead, Trump has changed his mind on the issue over and over and again just last week. Ditto head opinion columns like Erickson are void of any true value to an issue that is not going away.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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