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spanone

(135,877 posts)
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 01:58 PM Feb 2018

John Kelly Smears Immigrants Who Didn't Apply for DACA as 'Too Lazy to Get Off Their Asses'

In the latest dimension of the Trump administration’s war on undocumented immigrants, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump has already done more than his fair share to help undocumented young people, including those who were “too lazy to get off their asses” to apply for the DACA program.

Speaking with reporters at the Capitol, Kelly referred to Trump’s hard-right immigration proposal, which offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants—not just those who have officially gained DACA status. According to The Washington Post’s Erica Werner, Kelly used this as an opportunity to smear the young people his boss has helped to terrorize (emphasis added):

There are 690,000 official DACA recipients and the president sent over what amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million. 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.

Kelly also said he “doubt[s] very much” that Trump would extend the program past the March 5 deadline the White House gave to Congress to come up with a permanent legislative solution when it killed the DACA program six months ago. (The fate of the program is in legal limbo after a judge temporarily blocked the administration’s push to end it.)


https://splinternews.com/john-kelly-smears-immigrants-who-didnt-apply-for-daca-a-1822763722
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John Kelly Smears Immigrants Who Didn't Apply for DACA as 'Too Lazy to Get Off Their Asses' (Original Post) spanone Feb 2018 OP
Fuck him. octoberlib Feb 2018 #1
RACIST chief of staff spanone Feb 2018 #2
I do believe this John Kelly is revealing... yallerdawg Feb 2018 #3
no wonder trump likes him. spanone Feb 2018 #4
He is a white supremacist, not very smart either but none of them are, really. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #5
Or possibly, too smart to give all their info to the government unitedwethrive Feb 2018 #6
he's coming from a racists point of view....obviously spanone Feb 2018 #9
Of course...but clearly upset that all the Dreamers wont be unitedwethrive Feb 2018 #11
hard to believe this kind of shit comes out of the white house spanone Feb 2018 #12
I agree. It was a hard decision I'm sure. underpants Feb 2018 #13
None of them are too smart. You have to be pretty stupid to think skin color equals superiority. brush Feb 2018 #14
+1 lunasun Feb 2018 #15
What a hateful, bigoted, lying SOB. Many young people feared that registering Tanuki Feb 2018 #7
Racist old Fucker JI7 Feb 2018 #8
Scapegoating the color of humans Corgigal Feb 2018 #10
I wish we could get past our worship of former generals HopeAgain Feb 2018 #16
Check out his time as commander of United States Southern Command lunasun Feb 2018 #17
Wasn't he was booked as the level headed adult who was supposed to babysit Trump? procon Feb 2018 #18
The contempt these assholes hold people in is disgusting. Autumn Feb 2018 #19
true colours coming out at last, kelly? always figured you were a pos, choosing to work niyad Feb 2018 #20
Hmmm . . . Kelly . . . is that a Native American name? Vinca Feb 2018 #21
In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump--a little history on john kelly niyad Feb 2018 #22
How many people that did apply have been deported so far? world wide wally Feb 2018 #23
Just another example of Trumps racist whitehouse. erinlough Feb 2018 #24

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
3. I do believe this John Kelly is revealing...
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 01:59 PM
Feb 2018

who he truly is - another embedded racist pig in the White House!

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
5. He is a white supremacist, not very smart either but none of them are, really.
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:01 PM
Feb 2018

Because of a so called "lack of enthusiasm" by some, the vile chief traitor and this ASS kelly were allowed to steal our WH.

underpants

(182,881 posts)
13. I agree. It was a hard decision I'm sure.
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:07 PM
Feb 2018

Risk getting caught or risk giving them your name. Frankly those who chose the former are better off in the current environment.

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
7. What a hateful, bigoted, lying SOB. Many young people feared that registering
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:03 PM
Feb 2018

for DACA would put them on the government's radar and more easily target them for deportation if the policy ever changed. They were right.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
10. Scapegoating the color of humans
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:05 PM
Feb 2018

because his son was killed in a war. I see he takes no responsibility for telling his child, no don't go. Like all the Trump family does.

They throw those kids out, I'm not gonna be a good German. Hurry up Mueller, shit is going to get bad.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
16. I wish we could get past our worship of former generals
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:14 PM
Feb 2018

in this country. Most retired military officers I know are right wing to the point of being totally closed minded.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
17. Check out his time as commander of United States Southern Command
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:16 PM
Feb 2018

which is responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean
i warned you fans of kelly

procon

(15,805 posts)
18. Wasn't he was booked as the level headed adult who was supposed to babysit Trump?
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:29 PM
Feb 2018

Seems like Kelly lied on his job application. Wonder if all the soldiers who served under his command know he was, among all the other disappointing revelations of late, also a bigoted racist?

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
19. The contempt these assholes hold people in is disgusting.
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:33 PM
Feb 2018

Kelly, like the man whose scrotum he cleans is a POS.

niyad

(113,573 posts)
20. true colours coming out at last, kelly? always figured you were a pos, choosing to work
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:35 PM
Feb 2018

for the orange madman. and you DID have a choice.

niyad

(113,573 posts)
22. In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump--a little history on john kelly
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 02:51 PM
Feb 2018

In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump



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From left: Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez, the top officer in Colombia’s armed forces, and Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón were two of the Colombian officials who worked with Gen. John F. Kelly when he led U.S. Southern Command. Pinzón said the job turned Kelly “from a warrior into a statesman.” (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images)

A few weeks after John F. Kelly was placed in charge of U.S. military affairs in Central and South America in late 2012, he went to Colombia to meet the country’s defense minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón. Pinzón, a young, Princeton-educated economist, brought Kelly to visit soldiers maimed by the land mines of leftist guerrillas. Kelly’s son, Marine 1st Lt. Robert M. Kelly, had been killed after stepping on a mine in Afghanistan two years earlier, and to friends and colleagues, the tall, jaunty Marine general seemed to have turned gaunt, as if withered by grief. Kelly embraced the legless and disabled Colombian troops one by one. “It was an emotional moment,” Pinzón said. “He immediately identified with my soldiers. And after that we became very close friends.”

From that day until Kelly’s retirement from military service in 2016, he spent more than three years working in Latin America as head of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). The period was a bridge in Kelly’s late-career transformation from four-star general to field marshal of the Trump White House, where as chief of staff he spends long hours battling the agents of executive disorder.
How John Kelly is trying to bring discipline into the White House



Many in Washington were surprised to see Kelly emerge as an outspoken, combative member of President Trump’s team. He had been widely depicted as less ideological than others in the president’s orbit and as someone stirred to White House service by patriotic duty, not politics.
Those who worked alongside him in Latin America knew his worldview aligned more closely with Trump’s than many may have realized. As Southcom’s commander, Kelly oversaw the Guantanamo naval base and its notorious prison, and not always in the way the Obama administration wanted him to. He took on illegal immigration, drug cartels and the political and military complexities of a peace deal in close ally Colombia that ended a 52-year war with Marxist rebels.

The job, said Pinzón, “turned him from a warrior into a statesman.” In a role that put him at the intersection of U.S. diplomacy, national security and Washington politics, Kelly also revealed conservative views and a reputation for troublemaking — qualities that would make him a prime recruit for Trump as he assembled his Cabinet.

. . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-john-kellys-final-military-tour-hardened-his-views-on-border-security/2018/01/06/8ac11db0-de9b-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.de4201d83798

erinlough

(2,176 posts)
24. Just another example of Trumps racist whitehouse.
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 06:34 PM
Feb 2018

I believe he is one of the biggest dangers in the whitehouse. I cant stand hearing him or looking at him.

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