Anti-Trumper Sen. Jeff Flake: DACA Recipients ‘Represent the Very Best of America’

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Sen. Jeff Flake, the soon-to-be-gone Republican-in-Name-Only from Arizona, penned a piece for the Washington Post in which he called out DACA recipients as among the “very best” America has to offer.

Flake, who announced just recently he would not seek reelection — without acknowledging the reason for his step-down as facing failing numbers in the polls — has been a consistent voice of anti-President Donald Trumpism for months.

Remember when he took to the Senate floor to condemn Trump for fighting the media? Classic anti-Trumpism.

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His latest attack on Trump’s plans for DACA, though, are over the top.

Breitbart has the story:

Pro-open borders Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has committed to introducing his likely dead-on-arrival immigration legislation that would give amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens in exchange for three years of funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a Washington Post op-ed, Flake — an avid supporter of wage-crushing, mass low-skilled immigration to the U.S. — said his minor wall funding-for-amnesty plan is necessary because the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens enrolled on the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “represent the very best of America.”

But there are teachers, students and members of the military who are DACA recipients. They are friends and colleagues who represent the very best of America — hard workers and productive members of their families and communities — and they do not have the luxury of accepting defeat and moving on to the next agenda item. [Emphasis added]

While admitting defeat in his and the Republican establishment’s efforts to work with Democrats to pass a massive, wage-cutting amnesty plan without any reduction to current legal immigration levels, whereby more than one million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants are admitted to the country annually, Flake placed the blame on Trump for the issue.

Flake, though, this month was one of 14 pro-amnesty and business-first Republican senators who blocked a Trump-endorsed immigration plan that would have given DACA illegal aliens amnesty while eventually reducing the number of legal immigrants who enter the country every year to raise the wages and quality of life of America’s working and middle class.

But if I’m being candid, after what we’ve experienced over these past weeks, I can’t see this Congress agreeing with this president on a package that includes a path to citizenship for DACA participants coupled with significant changes to our legal immigration structure. That comprehensive immigration reform has proved to be beyond our grasp. [Emphasis added]

That is why, when the Senate reconvenes next week, the first action I will take will be to introduce a bill extending DACA protections for three years and providing $7.6 billion to fully fund the first three years of the administration’s border-security proposal. I’ll be the first to admit this “three for three” approach is far from a perfect solution, but it would provide a temporary fix by beginning the process of improving border security and ensuring DACA recipients will not face potential deportation. [Emphasis added]

Flake’s plan would not include any of the illegal immigration reforms that the Trump administration has demanded, including provisions that would close legal loopholes to more swiftly and effectively stem illegal immigration at the border.

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has explained previously to Breitbart News, without closing the legal loopholes outlined by the agency in an immigration deal, a border wall would stand alone trying to deter illegal immigration without any other major reforms to keep illegal aliens from entering the country.

Additionally, the expansive amnesty — which could potentially become uncontrollable — could stifle recent wage increases that American workers have enjoyed due to Trump’s “America First” immigration enforcement measures.

Instead, Flake’s plan would immediately flood the U.S. labor market with at least an additional permanent one to 3.5 million foreign nationals who would be legalized and thus eligible to legally compete for working and middle-class jobs against Americans, as well as a flood of illegal alien workers who would likely storm the U.S.-Mexico border in the wake of an amnesty.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago
dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

you are daca in ms13, too

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

He serves as a good bad example of what is wrong with politics. It is about time to bring back the “court fool”, renaming the position the “house fool”.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

An all pink short dress, a dunce hat, and those curly toed fairy booties will finish the costume.

Flake, most aptly named, should go to North ₲onorrhea with that other clown dennis ᴚodman – and stay.

barskii
barskii
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron Cole

they can get married and be thrown from the roof tops

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

RINO’s/Dems/Left/Liberal/socialist/feminazis have only destroyed countries which they ruled/misruled.

Just Like this Bernie/Dems socialist utopia has collapsed https://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

He is owned by multinational banks and corporations that thrive on CHEAP EDUCATED and UNEDUCATED LABOR

BTW is John McCain dead yet? His brain must be mush by now. NO one survives what he has. His wife’s money won’t save him from death. He has glioblastoma multi-form grade four, which is brain cancer. It’s the most aggressive and are very infiltrative — it spreads into other parts of the brain quickly. There is no cure for it. This idea of a “recovery” is ridiculous!

I hope Mittens doesn’t become the new John McPain.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

” …. which is brain cancer.” You tellin’ me that McCain has/had a brain? Learn somethin’ new every day.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

Sure am!

Glioblastoma, sometimes referred to as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is considered a grade IV tumor. They are the most aggressive and are very infiltrative — they spread into other parts of the brain quickly.

Who cares if he recovers from pneumonia. It doesn’t matter.
Biden’s kid died of it not so long ago. There is no cure for it. What this kind of cancer does is bury it’s TENTACLES in the brain and spread. So they can cut it out but they can’t get ALL of it out. Someone else is doing any tweeting for him. There is no way he is coherent.

This idea he is getting better is barf talk. I hate Newsweak but even they admit it! It cheered me up to revisit this. I normally don’t revel on someones demise but for McPAIN, I make an exception, He is jealous of Trump being President and a VILE human being. You see it was HIS turn to be President and manage our decline … till TRUMP!

John McCain’s Brain Cancer: How Long Does Someone Typically Live …

Dec 15, 2017 – As Senator John McCain continues to battle his glioblastoma, new reports reveal that he’s become “increasingly frail.” He’s also strayed from his usual behavior, and has become quieter during recent GOP meetings, CNN reports. After the Arizona Republican publicly announced his brain cancer diagnosis …

His recent hospitalization raises the question: How long does someone suffering from glioblastoma typically survive? About 16 months on average, Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore Hospital, told The New York Times.

Chances of surviving two years with the aggressive type of cancer is about 30 percent, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. But, McCain notes his prognosis is very serious.

“Some say 3 percent, some say 14 percent. You know, it’s—it’s a very poor prognosis,” the 81-year-old said during a 60 Minutes interview in September. “So I just said, ‘I understand. Now we’re going to do what we can, get the best doctors we can find and do the best we can.’ And at the same time celebrate with gratitude a life well-lived.”

http://www.newsweek.com/john-mccain-brain-cancer-how-long-does-someone-typically-live-glioblastoma-748956

barskii
barskii
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He may have lied about the Cancer – – nah – Jihadi John McCain wouldn’t Lie to the American People?
🙂

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

he knew how to roast navy folk in his burnouts

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

my fav democrat!

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

the best of USA is Islam. Muslims are LEGAL IMMIGRANTS, muslims CAN’T BE deported. muslims didn’t jump any fence. muslims have been willingly brought to the west and paid money, houses, benefits, etc by Tony Blair, Francois Hollande, Clinton, Obama, Angela Merkel, Trudeau, etc. to take charge of western women. don’t confuse illegal toilet cleaner mexicans with Muslim Citizens.
muslim population in USA:
2001: 0,9%
2010: 2,6%
2018: 4,1%……. and GROWING!

Islam will dominate.

Janet
Janet
6 years ago

BS! I notice you didn’t mention President Trump in that list of leaders. That’s because Trump has cut way back on Muslim immigration and is bringing in more Christians. There’s a new sheriff in town now that puts America first! “Islam will dominate” Never going to happen in the USA!

Bob Smith
Bob Smith
6 years ago

Only a lunatic would think increasing the Muslim population is a good thing. More Muslims always equals more trouble. I can’t think of one good reason for having any. Maybe you could enlighten us?

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It must have spread faster when he became a liberal.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He will if he gets in.

volksnut
volksnut
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Its always ” all about the money ” what a POS

moberndorf
moberndorf
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He has been since the beginning of his career. He’d have been in the slave trade in the 1800s. Phony as they get.

CentralCaliGal
CentralCaliGal
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

There’s no cure for tv’s rest of US, maybe there is for them!

MAS
MAS
6 years ago

Flake an appropriate name it seems…

Flaky Fake Flake
Flaky Fake Flake
6 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Yes, it does seem appropriate. I’m amazed at how much noise is made by blithering idiots like RINO Flake, Schumer, Pisslosi, Schiff, etc. You’d think they were the majority party in Congress – and I guess DemonRATs + RINOs do make up a majority. Rs just sit on their a$$es and let them run the show. It’s mind boggling. All of them should be censored and gagged.

censured not censored
censured not censored
6 years ago

censured

barskii
barskii
6 years ago

you forgot Ryan & McConnell

Rosie Barnes
Rosie Barnes
6 years ago

The point is that all these people are in the US illegally because they didn’t meet any of the requirements for LEGAL entry, and therefor bypassed all the proper channels – work permits, visas, Green Cards, asylum, refugee status. It is the same with the millions trying to enter Europe – they are being smuggled in because they have no legitimate claim whatsoever for legal entry. NOT NEEDED, NOT WANTED, NOT WELCOME.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  Rosie Barnes

That is correct! We would NOT have found them acceptable.
The entitled DACA people are souring the pubic.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Rosie Barnes

dems want a borderless country for ms13 access

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  Rosie Barnes

Muslims are LEGAL IMMIGRANTS, muslims CAN’T BE deported. muslims have been asked to come to the west by Tony Blair, Francos Hollande, Obama, Angela Merkel, etc. to take charge of western women, and are being paid money, benefits, cars, houses, etc, for it. don’t confuse toilet cleaner mexicans with Muslim Citizens.

edD
ed
6 years ago

So you mean toilet cleaning muzzlims ?? You muzzlims don’t use toilets or toilet paper, you wipe with the hands you eat with. 1400 years of brain dead idiots……

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

Just calm yourself. You’ve obviously been mixing goat and donkey spunk and some of it has found it’s way to your brain, where it’s affecting your judgment and causing you to make a fool of yourself. Where you’re confused is, muslims are in the west not for what you think. The only thing muslims are needed for, is glue production. And not as workers. Cheers!

barskii
barskii
6 years ago

they were sent by the High Commander of the United Nations, Not Vetted by the USA…
get over your Islamic Self.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

The self-serving Democrats, in this case, Flake, wouldn’t know or speak the truth it is smacked them in the gob. The latter of which has one purpose, to disseminate lie after lie to the gullible and those in need of a brain retread. The aforesaid encompasses the entirety of the Democrats, its ally, Islam, and every Illegal Immigrant in this Republic. The truth and Progressivism are not synonymous.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

he should move his office to a mosque

Drifter12
Drifter12
6 years ago

This walking, taxpayer funded insult to the intelligence of Arizona voters is long past his use by date…

Voytek Gagalka
Voytek Gagalka
6 years ago

Any proof that they are indeed “the very best of America,” (soon to be former) senator? Or this is just empty propaganda trick calculated as intimidation method of your opponents? That latter is the most likely, in my opinion.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

The very best would have understood a time had arrived to “do the right thing”, and began following existing immigration laws. They were ignored in hope that the “dreamers” could get amnesty. Much was riding on HIllary winning. McCain, Flake News and the Far left in Arizona are all guilty of contributory malfeasance. These RINOs can’t leave office soon enough.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

Flake is truly a hideous person.
He insults LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and LEGAL CITIZENS in one fell swoop.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

he likes rapists coming in. he actually has a desire to get votes from illegals

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago

Snowflake Snake is a pathetic Liberal, Brainless.Spineless, RINO POS. He is a disgrace to Arizona, the United States and the people of Arizona and the US. He needs to grow a set and Resign ASAP. He can take his CACA plan and shove it up his @$$,

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago

Snowflake Snake could also have cancer on the inside off his skull. something is wrong because he does not have the capabiliity to think and make good decisions. I forgot he is a Liberal and is Brainless. I am surprised that he can walk as he is also Spineless..

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

Do I have to be part of ms-13 to be daca?

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

does anyone else see whats coming with armed people in schools? the same BS from the left the first time an “innocent din du nuffin” gets shot, blame the law enforcement with the gun for the little bastards behavior

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
6 years ago

THIS FLAKE WOULD SAY THE SAME FOR MOSLEM JIHADIS IF THEY PAID HIM ENOUGH . WHAT A FREAKING JERK . THANKS A LOT ARIZONA . BETWEEN THIS TOTAL IDIOT AND MCSTAIN IT A WONDER THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN HELD IN CHECK FOR SO LONG.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Hush……. the fatherless MORON speaks! According to the Desiderata, “….and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.”

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

STFU, they don’t represent S-!

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

Flake represents the very worst in congress a scumbag, a traitor and a complete liar. We have had 7 amnesty’s since the 80’s. No more!

Frank
Frank
6 years ago

Just another RINO that took from you everything he could steal.

Ruger 1
Ruger 1
6 years ago

Jeff Snow-Flake is what is seriously Wrong with Our Government!!!!! He’s a Lying POS RINO that Should have had a (D) after his name…. Well he does
(D)-Bag!!!!!! All You have to know about the DemonRats and RINO’s in Con-gress is They Call Us American’s (Deplorables) and Call Illegal Alien Murderers (Dreamers). F*ck Him and the Rest of the Anti-American Scumbags in Washington!!!!!!

SteveB✅ Proud Deplorable
SteveB✅ Proud Deplorable
6 years ago

Rinos and Dinos are not safe during this upcoming election. It has been a year of wasting tax payers money by Bob Mueller and his cabal. A year of name calling by the Media insulting Trump Voters. Lying to American people and taking foreign donations from George Soros while actively engaged in Corruption. The Purge on election day will prevail. Washington Elites are above the Law. Unless that is corrected this country will be engulfed in a civil war. Washington is Dysfunctional and at a stand still.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

MS13-DACA! FLake needs to get some serious help!

barskii
barskii
6 years ago

Can’t wait for this Total Idiot Progressive Socialist Democrat to be Gone.
Traitor to his own Moma – She slapped Him Silly a long time ago!

glenda lafont
glenda lafont
6 years ago

What is the left eating and drinking? Sooner or later they will run out of kool aid. Boy do they have blinders on.

Fastrax
Fastrax
6 years ago

What a nut job. How do they get elected? Well, sure they get financing, and become instant members of the Club! None of ’em are spilling the beans either, but kick that can of so-called national debt down the road for the next generation. A secret of the temple is that the national debt is “0” and a fraud upon the United States. Such deception. I wish they were fools; they’d deserve our sympathy and forgiveness.

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
6 years ago

Interesting. Is this intended to be a compliment towards the DACA folks, or a condemnation of his own citizens and countrymen? Whatever he intended, perhaps both, it is an irrelevant point. This issue is not about the DACA people, it is about the legality of their status. Whether they are saints or sinners has no bearing on the matter. Further, to deny their right to stay in the USA is not intended to be punishment or adversarial. As a believer in how wonderful all cultures are, having them sent back to where they originated is an act of generosity. Personally, I would give them priority over others, but I do not make the rules. I follow them and accept the consequences if I do not. In general, these people probably are much more amenable to becoming good citizens than those arriving from Islamic countries. Nevertheless, Flake demonstrates the depth of treachery and demigoguery within our Nation. It is bi-partisan in scope.

BigMG
BigMG
6 years ago

The best at making sure our police departments are fully staffed.
They’re also the best at keeping private run prisons at capacity.
They’re best at working long hours for next to nothing, for the elite rich, while the middle class foots the bill.
Yeah, Flake can call illegal invaders The Best, because they are the best at creating one crisis after another that keeps slime balls like him in office.

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