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DonViejo

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Tue Feb 6, 2018, 04:10 PM Feb 2018

Kelly: Some Immigrants 'Were Too Lazy To Get Off Their Asses' For DACA Signups

By Summer Concepcion and ALAN FRAM | February 6, 2018 1:10 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Dreamers” protected by an Obama-era program that President Donald Trump has said will end on March 5 are not top targets for deportation as long as they lack criminal records, the White House chief of staff said Tuesday.

John Kelly also dismissed the idea of a short-term extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program beyond March 5 to give the administration and Congress more time to work out compromise legislation.

“What makes them act is pressure,” he said of Congress.

According to the Washington Post, Kelly said the Trump-endorsed plan to legalize the status of 1.8 million Dreamers was “stunning and no one expected it.”

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Kelly: Some Immigrants 'Were Too Lazy To Get Off Their Asses' For DACA Signups (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
What an asshole Kelly is. skylucy Feb 2018 #1
Spoken like a man who has NEVER been without power. . . n/t annabanana Feb 2018 #2
Another American Shitstain spews his toxic verbal poison. Stinky The Clown Feb 2018 #3
Kelly and Miller awesomerwb1 Feb 2018 #4
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