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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Kelly Smears Immigrants Who Didn't Apply for DACA as 'Too Lazy to Get Off Their Asses'
Speaking with reporters at the Capitol, Kelly referred to Trumps hard-right immigration proposal, which offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young undocumented immigrantsnot just those who have officially gained DACA status. According to The Washington Posts 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 didnt 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 administrations push to end it.)
https://splinternews.com/john-kelly-smears-immigrants-who-didnt-apply-for-daca-a-1822763722
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)spanone
(135,877 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)who he truly is - another embedded racist pig in the White House!
spanone
(135,877 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Because of a so called "lack of enthusiasm" by some, the vile chief traitor and this ASS kelly were allowed to steal our WH.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)knowing that administrations change...
spanone
(135,877 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)as easy to identify as the would like.
spanone
(135,877 posts)underpants
(182,881 posts)Risk getting caught or risk giving them your name. Frankly those who chose the former are better off in the current environment.
brush
(53,871 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)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.
JI7
(89,269 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)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)in this country. Most retired military officers I know are right wing to the point of being totally closed minded.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)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)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)Kelly, like the man whose scrotum he cleans is a POS.
niyad
(113,573 posts)for the orange madman. and you DID have a choice.
Vinca
(50,304 posts)niyad
(113,573 posts)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 Colombias 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 countrys defense minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón. Pinzón, a young, Princeton-educated economist, brought Kelly to visit soldiers maimed by the land mines of leftist guerrillas. Kellys 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 Kellys 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 Kellys 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 Trumps team. He had been widely depicted as less ideological than others in the presidents 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 Trumps than many may have realized. As Southcoms 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.
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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
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)erinlough
(2,176 posts)I believe he is one of the biggest dangers in the whitehouse. I cant stand hearing him or looking at him.