exchemist
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Well it nicely captures both the failure to realise they are being shafted and the general ignorance about the world.
American Pogrom (#WhatTheyVotedFor)
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Pinball1970
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Obviously I do not engage with the OP but is "Pogrom" an appropriate word for this thread?Well it nicely captures both the failure to realise they are being shafted and the general ignorance about the world.
We might observe the social media source finally figured out he'd screwed up; the source post for #3786832/34↑ above finally pulled his post.
Cruelty and Priority
The short form, per Aaron Reichlin Melnick↱:
The lede and detail, from Jackie Llanos↱:
This isn't a new point; see #8 above↑ in re the eighteen years, at least, screeching about the border and then doing everything they can think of to forestall a solution. Or, ca. 2024¹:
This is what it comes to, as we push toward nineteen years later; these are the people they're after. For instance, "Christian, who worked as a community liaison for a city council member in a major Texas city, submitted his renewal applications on Dec. 5. He'll be able to go back to his job once the Trump administration renews his work permit."
Or the American dream, itself:
And it's not just them; Yenifer, the behavioral therapist for autistic children, worries about the disruption of the kids' progress.
Republicans complaining of a border crisis, today, should thank their conservative predecessors for refusing their own bills long enough for them to still be able to complain about conservative fears agitated by Republican failure.
This racist cruelty was always so important to American conservatives. It's part of the fundamental character of the people capable of carrying forward what has been bestowed by those who raised them up. Such hatred requires people capable of believing in it.
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Notes:
Llanos, Jackie. "The Trump Administration's DACA Renewal Delays Are Pushing People Out of Work". NOTUS. 20 April 2026. NOTUS.org. 20 April 2026. https://www.notus.org/immigration/daca-status-renewal-delay-jobs
The short form, per Aaron Reichlin Melnick↱:
The Trump admin forced a firefighter paramedic with DACA to resign from his job (and risk deportation) because they didn't process his renewal application, even though he filed FIVE MONTHS before his status was set to expire.
The lede and detail, from Jackie Llanos↱:
A firefighter, a child behavioral therapist, a city council member's staffer and a video game tester are among those who say they've lost their jobs because the Trump administration hasn't renewed their DACA status.
Federal government delays in renewing the immigrants' status are putting them at a higher risk of deportation and financial strain as a result of losing their work authorization, pushing some to have to ask their community for financial help ....
.... President Donald Trump tried to eliminate DACA during his first term. The program has since 2012 granted work permits and reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they turned 16 and have lived here since at least 2007.
More than 505,000 people have DACA, according to the latest data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The program is under further threat as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration: Currently the federal government is only processing renewals, not new applications.
USCIS reported that as of February its median processing time for DACA renewals is 2.3 months in the current fiscal year, the longest since 2016. However, USCIS completes 80% of its cases in 3.5 months, according to the agency. USCIS recommends submitting DACA renewals four to five months in advance, according to its website ....
.... Six months have passed since Vicente, a DACA recipient from Venezuela living in Florida, submitted his renewal application.
The firefighter paramedic said he's called USCIS several times and the agency has not provided a timeline for his approval. He said he had to resign when his work permit expired last week.
"You do everything right, and you still can't even get an answer or any kind of update," Vicente said.
Federal government delays in renewing the immigrants' status are putting them at a higher risk of deportation and financial strain as a result of losing their work authorization, pushing some to have to ask their community for financial help ....
.... President Donald Trump tried to eliminate DACA during his first term. The program has since 2012 granted work permits and reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they turned 16 and have lived here since at least 2007.
More than 505,000 people have DACA, according to the latest data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The program is under further threat as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration: Currently the federal government is only processing renewals, not new applications.
USCIS reported that as of February its median processing time for DACA renewals is 2.3 months in the current fiscal year, the longest since 2016. However, USCIS completes 80% of its cases in 3.5 months, according to the agency. USCIS recommends submitting DACA renewals four to five months in advance, according to its website ....
.... Six months have passed since Vicente, a DACA recipient from Venezuela living in Florida, submitted his renewal application.
The firefighter paramedic said he's called USCIS several times and the agency has not provided a timeline for his approval. He said he had to resign when his work permit expired last week.
"You do everything right, and you still can't even get an answer or any kind of update," Vicente said.
This isn't a new point; see #8 above↑ in re the eighteen years, at least, screeching about the border and then doing everything they can think of to forestall a solution. Or, ca. 2024¹:
Remember that the border crisis Republicans complain about not only dates back to Boehner, over a decade ago, but actually reaches back to conservative refusal of President Bush's bill in 2007. Democrats, in the seventeen years since, have literally been unable to give Republicans the bills Republicans demand, because Republicans end up killing the bills.
("Presidential predictions for 2024?" #378↗)
("Presidential predictions for 2024?" #378↗)
This is what it comes to, as we push toward nineteen years later; these are the people they're after. For instance, "Christian, who worked as a community liaison for a city council member in a major Texas city, submitted his renewal applications on Dec. 5. He'll be able to go back to his job once the Trump administration renews his work permit."
Or the American dream, itself:
For Cesar, a 25-year-old who has lived in the U.S. since he was 2 years old, the lapse in his work permit and DACA status led to losing his dream job as a video game tester in January. It was particularly bad timing, as he and his wife, a middle school teacher, were in the process of buying a house.
"I can't even drive. I can't really do much because I'm scared of being pulled over," Cesar said. "That's like a nightmare I keep having, and my family keeps telling me to stay positive, but there's nothing to be positive about right now."
Being out of work has meant that his wife has had to take on extra hours tutoring and working as a delivery driver. Now, he's occupying his time obsessively checking the USCIS portal to see if the agency has renewed his DACA and work permit. He submitted his renewal Dec. 3, weeks before the Jan. 1 deadline, because the longest he said he had previously waited had been three weeks.
"I just punish myself thinking about all the money we could have had if I kept working and if it was different," Cesar said.
The couple has an immediate concern.
"We're just, like, in survival mode right now trying not to lose the house," he said.
"I can't even drive. I can't really do much because I'm scared of being pulled over," Cesar said. "That's like a nightmare I keep having, and my family keeps telling me to stay positive, but there's nothing to be positive about right now."
Being out of work has meant that his wife has had to take on extra hours tutoring and working as a delivery driver. Now, he's occupying his time obsessively checking the USCIS portal to see if the agency has renewed his DACA and work permit. He submitted his renewal Dec. 3, weeks before the Jan. 1 deadline, because the longest he said he had previously waited had been three weeks.
"I just punish myself thinking about all the money we could have had if I kept working and if it was different," Cesar said.
The couple has an immediate concern.
"We're just, like, in survival mode right now trying not to lose the house," he said.
And it's not just them; Yenifer, the behavioral therapist for autistic children, worries about the disruption of the kids' progress.
Republicans complaining of a border crisis, today, should thank their conservative predecessors for refusing their own bills long enough for them to still be able to complain about conservative fears agitated by Republican failure.
This racist cruelty was always so important to American conservatives. It's part of the fundamental character of the people capable of carrying forward what has been bestowed by those who raised them up. Such hatred requires people capable of believing in it.
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Notes:
¹ See also, Trump 2.0 #552 (2025)↗, "DACA—the 'Dreamers'—were originally a Bush administration proposal, and those extreme leftist Democrats have been begging for a chance to compromise and pass GOP border bills, now, for over seventeen years", and #1571 (2025)↗, "And Democrats have been begging for a chance to compromise with Republicans and pass a shitty GOP border bill for over seventeen years, now. The problem is, Republicans can't seem to come up with a bill racist enough to satisfy Republicans.; "Goodbye 4th Amendment" #15 (2025)↗, "Remember, DACA "Dreamers" come from President George W. Bush, and complaints of border crisis depend on seventeen years of Republicans refusing their own bills."
Llanos, Jackie. "The Trump Administration's DACA Renewal Delays Are Pushing People Out of Work". NOTUS. 20 April 2026. NOTUS.org. 20 April 2026. https://www.notus.org/immigration/daca-status-renewal-delay-jobs
TheVat
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Paging James Madison, who identified partisanship as a "disease" in the body politic...and then quickly set about forming a political party and being partisan as hell. The current partisanship on the Right has settled into a caricature of itself, with its three step program for scoring points: break something, then point out the something doesn't work, then say the something was invented by Democrats.