[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 18 (Thursday, January 25, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E98-E99]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  DACA = DEMS AGAINST COMMON AMERICANS

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                           HON. VIRGINIA FOXX

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 25, 2018

  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to include in the Record an 
opinion editorial authored by columnist Tom Joyce of the Mount Airy 
News. In the piece, ``DACA = Dems against Common Americans,'' Mr. Joyce 
correctly asserts that during the Schumer Shutdown, the Democratic 
Party put the interests of DACA participants above those of our 
military personnel who suffer from shutdowns. I commend Mr. Joyce on 
his acute understanding of the facts.

                       [From the Mount Airy News]

                  DACA = Dems Against Common Americans

                             (By Tom Joyce)

       As I sit here on Friday, a stare-down is continuing in 
     Washington over a spending bill that was threatening to shut 
     down the federal government at midnight.
       First of all, it's bad enough that members of Congress--
     representing both parties--are so irresponsible they can't 
     handle a basic function such as adopting a budget, something 
     state and local governments, businesses and families 
     routinely do. This is evident not just with the spending 
     plan, but virtually any issue of consequence to address our 
     nation's many woes.
       The problem is that members of both parties are more 
     interested in pleasing their corporate donors and other 
     special interests than they are helping rank-and-file 
     Americans. Senators and representatives largely have become a 
     privileged class who believe they don't have to play by the 
     rules, ones they themselves make.
       Although people like myself are paid to offer these kinds 
     of observations in the dim hope they might actually elicit 
     change, I wholeheartedly believe change won't occur unless 
     some major overhaul in Washington replaces most of the 
     present leadership.
       While the fiscal irresponsibility surrounding the recent 
     budget impasse has been sickening in and of itself, the 
     really disgusting thing is how congressional Democrats have 
     tied their support for a spending bill to relief for DACA 
     participants.
       You know, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
     (Dreamers) program that gives special treatment to hundreds 
     of thousands (and maybe more) illegal immigrants brought by 
     their illegal immigrant parents to this country as kids 
     ``through no fault of their own.''
       Now they are young adults who are all military heroes, 
     heart surgeons or Rhodes Scholars with spotless criminal 
     records, and despite being such great and talented people 
     aren't depriving legal citizens of jobs.
       Even if all that were true, it's disgraceful to see how the 
     Democratic Party has been putting the interests of DACA 
     participants above those of our military personnel who

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     suffer from shutdowns, including not getting paid.
       When was the last time Democrats went to bat to such a 
     degree for our own inner-city youths who are ``Dreamers'' 
     deprived of a good education or economic opportunities while 
     Dems cater to people who shouldn't be here in the first 
     place?
       When was the last time the Democrat Party was all in to 
     help veterans plagued by homelessness and unemployment?
       To be honest, the Democrats once were the party of the 
     working man, which somewhere along the way was hijacked by 
     far-left cultural elitists. They deal in a currency of 
     identity politics which sees issues such as who uses what 
     bathroom as more important than those aiding the common man.
       While their unwavering desire to avoid doing anything that 
     in any way inconveniences illegal aliens (at the expense of 
     legal Americans) is part of this trend, the truth is 
     Democrats are selfishly motivated.
       As Sen. Ted Cruz remarked during the 2016 presidential 
     campaign, another definition for illegal immigrants is 
     ``undocumented Democrats.'' And obviously with their core 
     support among real Americans dwindling to the point their 
     party basically has rendered itself irrelevant, Democrats are 
     seeking a ready-made group of subservient voters.
       This can be accomplished by legalizing the DACA group and 
     any other non-citizens on which Democrats can lay their 
     hands.
       Here again, the common man is lost in the shuffle.
       As long as there are homeless veterans whose needs are not 
     being met, people mired in poverty through governmental 
     policies and additional conditions ``through no fault of 
     their own'' and other legal residents in need, not one bit of 
     energy should be devoted to assisting illegals.
       Given that many people from other nations have spent years 
     and untold sums of money to become U.S. citizens the right 
     way, I personally won't be satisfied until every person now 
     within our borders illegally is deported once and for all.
       We either have laws and rules, or we don't. And build that 
     wall.
       You can't convince me this wouldn't benefit legal Americans 
     by freeing up jobs they supposedly won't take, including 
     better-than-average construction positions often occupied by 
     illegals. Along the way companies--yes, many of which grease 
     the Republican wheels with donations--would be forced to pay 
     decent wages rather than exploiting cheap labor.
       The first ones who should be deported are the parents of 
     Dreamers, who when described as people brought here ``through 
     no fault of their own'' is another way of saying it was 
     somebody's fault--theirs.
       In the meantime, DACA will continue to be another way of 
     saying Democrats Against Common Americans.

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