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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

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peterdaou twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 13:17:41 Some people don't comprehend the need for @Verrit, but those who've been harassed and invisibilized know EXACTLY what it's for. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:01 schreef Puddington het volgende:
Obama heeft ook gereageerd op het besluit van de DACA: https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155227588436749

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Trump’s key priority in the DACA debate hasn’t involved any sort of policy goal at all. Instead, he’s been making a dual effort to avoid an open breach with Sessions and his network of nativist politicians while also trying to avoid becoming the face of the turn against DACA.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Kinderen/ jonge mensen hun kansen op een toekomst ontnemen onder het mom van handhaving van wetgeving. En dan Sessions het woord laten doen. Bah wat een laf figuur

Trump isn’t delivering his own DACA policy because he’s cowardly and weak

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

Trump the great unify-er .

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

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Haley: Leaving Iran nuclear deal is 'tempting'

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday laid out an argument in a speech Tuesday for President Trump to potentially declare Iran in violation of the nuclear deal later this year.

Haley detailed the “many flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal, though several of the examples occurred before the agreement was created. She also said that Iran was using the deal to “hold the world hostage to its bad behavior.”

“The truth is, the Iran deal has so many flaws that it’s tempting to leave it,” she told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

“The deal was constructed in a way that makes leaving less attractive. It gave Iran what it wanted upfront in exchange for temporary promises to deliver what we want. That’s not good.”

Haley then insisted that, while she has discussed such issues with Trump, she does not know what decision he will make.

The White House every 90 days must certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S. and international powers.

If Trump decides to decertify the deal in October, it would put the administration a step closer to pulling out of the agreement.

But Haley pressed that if Trump “chooses not to certify Iranian compliance, that does not mean the United States is withdrawing” from the agreement. She added that Congress could potentially re-impose sanctions on the country, pointing to the ongoing standoff over North Korea's nuclear program as an example.

“If you look at North Korea now, the reasons we’re pushing for so many sanctions — do we think more sanctions are going to work on North Korea? Not necessarily. But what does it do? It cuts off the revenue that allows them to build ballistic missiles,” she said.

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GOP rep: Send DACA recipients to serve in the Peace Corps

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) suggested Tuesday that recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should serve as members of the Peace Corps in their home countries, now that President Trump has decided to rescind the Obama administration program.

Attorney Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that Trump would rescind the program, which offered protection from deportation to people brought into the country illegally as children.

“Former DACAs will make great ‘Peace Corp’ volunteers in home countries. None would take more hardship or risk than we ask of Peace Corp,” King tweeted.

However, only U.S. citizens are allowed to serve in the Peace Corps. It is one of the only two requirements needed to be eligible for the volunteer program.

King earlier slammed Trump after it was reported that Trump would end DACA on a six-month delay, calling the move, which leaves open a potential legislative fix, “Republican suicide."

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 22:56 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

Langer statement van Trump zojuist:
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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:12 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)e-in-the-peace-corps

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Vrijwilligers die onder leiding van het Department of State ontwikkelingshulp doen in het buitenland, min of meer...

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yashar twitterde op woensdag 06-09-2017 om 00:39:16 Must-Watch: Senator Menandez' trial starts tomorrow and the stakes are high for Dems and GOP. @LauraAJarrett reports https://t.co/xET0QEwq0Z reageer retweet

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President Trump didn’t even have the guts to do the job himself. Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country that the administration would no longer shield from deportation 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.

Mr. Sessions, a longtime anti-immigrant hard-liner, was more than up to the task. In a short, disingenuous speech, he said a program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012 — known as DACA, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — was a lawless policy that “yielded terrible humanitarian consequences” and denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. (Mr. Trump echoed these claims in a statement released by the White House.) Mr. Sessions called DACA “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” and said “failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.”

False, false, false and false.

DACA recipients are not threats to public safety or national security; to the contrary, they must have a nearly spotless record to be eligible in the first place. They do not receive legal status in this country, only a two-year, renewable deferral of deportation along with a work permit and eligibility for other government benefits down the road. And they are not taking jobs from native-born Americans, whose declining levels of employment can be chalked up to other factors.

As for the policy’s legality, there’s no question that the president has the authority to set immigration-enforcement priorities. Presidents of both parties have done that for decades, and President Obama did it by focusing on people with criminal records and not on those brought to this country as children. For most of this latter group, the United States is the only home they’ve ever known. About 9 in 10 are working taxpayers, and deporting them could reduce the gross domestic product by over $400 billion over the next decade.

In short, DACA is morally right, legally sound and fiscally smart policy. It was also the only humane choice Mr. Obama had in the face of Congress’s failure to pass any meaningful immigration reform in the last two decades.

If all that weren’t enough, DACA remains overwhelmingly popular among Americans of all political stripes. Polls put its approval rating at roughly double that of President Trump himself. Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually a reliable backer of the Republican legislative agenda, called the decision to end DACA “contrary to fundamental American principles.”

The only bad thing that could be said about DACA is that, because it was a presidential memorandum, it was always vulnerable to being undone by a shortsighted administration playing to its base.

Now that that has happened, 800,000 people — all of whom gave their personal information and immigration status to the government, believing it would not be used against them — face the prospect of being shipped back to a country they may have no connection to or even remember.

This wouldn’t be a concern if Congress had done its job and passed the Dream Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for people brought to this country as children, and which has kicked around Capitol Hill for 16 years. Even though it has been stymied mainly by Republican opposition at every turn, it’s still theoretically on the table. But there’s little sign the dwindling Republican moderates in Congress have the stomach to confront their party’s nativist core. Mr. Trump called on Congress to act, but didn’t have the courage to tell it what he wanted it to do.

Contrast that with President Obama’s willingness to defend a policy that has always had detractors. “Ultimately, this is about basic decency,” Mr. Obama wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. “This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be treated.”

Mr. Trump has no good rejoinder. That’s partly because there isn’t one and partly because, as is so often the case, he doesn’t fully understand the scope of what he’s done. One would hope that the widespread outrage at Tuesday’s announcement, and the impending suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who’ve done nothing but try to become contributing members of society, might impress it upon him.