GOP Rep. Blasts Trump For Ending DACA After Saying He’d Show ‘Great Heart’

UNITED STATES - MAY 19: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Ca... UNITED STATES - MAY 19: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump for his reported plans to end the DACA program, noting that he’s said in the past that he would treat DREAMers with “great heart.”

Trump reportedly plans to announce on Tuesday his decision to roll back the DACA program, which grants legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, with a six month delay in implementation.

He will announce his decision on the deadline a group of Republican attorneys general gave him to end DACA. If he does not role back the program, the attorneys general plan to sue the White House. Trump is poised to reverse the program implemented by former President Barack Obama despite opposition from several Republicans in Congress.

Trump’s plans to roll back the program come after he previously said he would treat the DREAMers with “great heart.”

“We’re going to show great heart,” he said in February. “DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you. To me it’s one of the most difficult subjects I have, because you have these incredible kids, in many cases. Not in all cases; in some of the cases they’re having DACA and they’re gang members and drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids. I would say mostly.”

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  1. Avatar for meh meh says:

    Apparently his “great heart”: is the 6 month delay he promised. He is a cruel and sadistic man with never a th9ught to anyone other than himself and what he believes is his glory and fortune.

  2. From Harper’s. If only…
    From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory military service and to register his initial emigration to the United States twenty years earlier. Prince Luitpold rejected Trump’s request for repatriation; the family later settled in New York. Translated from the German by Austen Hinkley.

    Most Serene, Most Powerful Prince Regent! Most Gracious Regent and Lord!

    I was born in Kallstadt on March 14, 1869. My parents were honest, plain, pious vineyard workers. They strictly held me to everything good — to diligence and piety, to regular attendance in school and church, to absolute obedience toward the high authority.

    After my confirmation, in 1882, I apprenticed to become a barber. I emigrated in 1885, in my sixteenth year. In America I carried on my business with diligence, discretion, and prudence. God’s blessing was with me, and I became rich. I obtained American citizenship in 1892. In 1902 I met my current wife. Sadly, she could not tolerate the climate in New York, and I went with my dear family back to Kallstadt.

    The town was glad to have received a capable and productive citizen. My old mother was happy to see her son, her dear daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter around her; she knows now that I will take care of her in her old age.

    But we were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick.

    Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree — not to mention the great material losses it would incur. I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again.

    In this urgent situation I have no other recourse than to turn to our adored, noble, wise, and just sovereign lord, our exalted ruler His Royal Highness, highest of all, who has already dried so many tears, who has ruled so beneficially and justly and wisely and softly and is warmly and deeply loved, with the most humble request that the highest of all will himself in mercy deign to allow the applicant to stay in the most gracious Kingdom of Bavaria.

    Your most humble and obedient,

    Friedrich Trump

  3. Ros-Lehtenin is retiring. To see why:

    “She also said she’s not leaving Congress because of her differences with President Trump or with House GOP leadership, though Ros-Lehtinen has been one of the most vocal moderate Republican critics of the White House and the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Ros-Lehtinen, who said she didn’t vote for Trump last year, has disagreed with the president on deportations, transgender rights and budget cuts, and with House Republicans on healthcare”

    C.M. Guerrero
    http://www.miamiherald.com

    another reason why: she’s on the House Intelligence committee. She’s heard much more dirt on Trump than we have.

  4. That’s not really “blasting” Rump especially for a Congresscritter who’s retiring. I’ve heard worse.

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