Dem lawmaker: Kelly is a 'disgrace to uniform'
Source: the hill
By Olivia Beavers - 09/05/17 04:23 PM EDT
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Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday issued an unusually personal rebuke of White House chief of staff John Kelly, suggesting the retired Marine general has tainted his military service by working in the administration as President Trump ends a program shielding young immigrants from deportation.
"General Kelly is a hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear. He has no honor and should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists and those enabling the Presidents actions by just following orders,' " Gutiérrez said in a scathing statement, shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy will be phased out.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus member claimed Kelly backed out of a commitment to protect DACA recipients, who were brought to the United States illegally as children, from deportation while serving as the Homeland Security secretary.
General Kelly, when he was the head of Homeland Security, lied straight to the faces of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about preventing the mass deportation of DREAMers. Now as Chief of Staff, this former general is executing the plan to take away their lifeline and taking steps to criminalize young people who live and work here legally," he said.
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I myself do not care for Kelly. Recall, as head of Homeland Security he went lock and step with the Muslim ban also.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Ambition.
riversedge
(70,273 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Money, money, money.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)homeland security. The meaner he could be the better.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)(even here) describe him as a safeguard against Trump's ignorance and volitility. I see him as just another member of this gawd awful administration.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)but I think it would take much more than money to get a guy like that to put up with Trump's daily tantrums
adigal
(7,581 posts)He said to use a sword on the media, and he enabled Trump in his nonsense crazy thought of 3 million illegal voters. Kelly is a racist Nazi, just like Trump.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)to form policy. He directs the staff and has duties regarding planning and schedules and such. He doesn't do policy. I think.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Person in the US. All domestic and international policy for the executive come under the oversite of his office. If the POTUS insist on doing something the COS finds unethical or immoral it is incumbent upon him to resign.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)by resigning, and telling the TRUTH about what he has observed in this WH so far. Stay, and he loses all respect.