DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JOHN KELLY: “White House chief of staff John Kelly suggested Tuesday [2-6-18] that some undocumented immigrants were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’ to sign up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program…
Later Tuesday, after another meeting on Capitol Hill, Kelly said some people who were DACA eligible but didn’t sign up had reasons but most probably ‘needed to get off the couch.’
The Trump administration proposed a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children in return for a $25 billion investment in border security.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders responded to questions about Kelly’s comments by blaming Democrats for the immigration impasse…
Democrats who have been part of the negotiations between the White House and Congress to strike a deal on immigration rebuked Kelly’s remarks on Twitter.”
-Veronica Stracqualursi, “Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn’t sign up for DACA were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Feb. 6, 2018 07:17pm