How illegal immigrant Dreamers amassed power to force government shutdown

[mystery-ak]

 By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, January 21, 2018

Democrats called it the Trump shutdown. Republicans labeled it the Schumer shutdown. But in reality, it was the Dreamer shutdown.

The recipe for the current congressional gridlock is complex, but at the top of the list of ingredients are the illegal immigrant Dreamers who pushed Democrats to launch the filibuster that sent the government careening into a partial shutdown.

It’s a stunning display of political leverage for a group that, at most, numbers several million, can’t vote now, and even under the most generous proposals wouldn’t be able to cast ballots for another decade.

Yet they have amassed an extraordinary amount of power, comparable to the much larger tea party movement that helped precipitate the last shutdown in 2013.

In the wake of Friday’s shutdown vote in the Senate, which dozens of Dreamers watched from the public viewing galleries, they claimed victory.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/21/dreamer-shutdown-shows-power-of-illegal-immigrants/

[Chosen Daughter]

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, January 21, 2018

Democrats called it the Trump shutdown. Republicans labeled it the Schumer shutdown. But in reality, it was the Dreamer shutdown.

The recipe for the current congressional gridlock is complex, but at the top of the list of ingredients are the illegal immigrant Dreamers who pushed Democrats to launch the filibuster that sent the government careening into a partial shutdown.

It’s a stunning display of political leverage for a group that, at most, numbers several million, can’t vote now, and even under the most generous proposals wouldn’t be able to cast ballots for another decade.

Yet they have amassed an extraordinary amount of power, comparable to the much larger tea party movement that helped precipitate the last shutdown in 2013.

In the wake of Friday’s shutdown vote in the Senate, which dozens of Dreamers watched from the public viewing galleries, they claimed victory.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/21/dreamer-shutdown-shows-power-of-illegal-immigrants/

They don't vote.  They aren't citizens.  I call it government tyranny.

[skeeter]

As long as we have chain migration the focus on "Dreamers" is a sleight of hand, its about a general amnesty.

[edpc]

It’s a stunning display of political leverage for a group that, at most, numbers several million, can’t vote now, and even under the most generous proposals wouldn’t be able to cast ballots for another decade.

Dinan is joking, right?  These are people who have been here for years and violating multiple laws.  Suddenly, we expect they’re on the honor system and not voting?  Please.....

[Emjay]

Dinan is joking, right?  These are people who have been here for years and violating multiple laws.  Suddenly, we expect they’re on the honor system and not voting?  Please.....

How has this group of illegals amassed power?  They haven't.

They've been granted power and used as a symbol by the democrat party.

And not because the dems care about them at all.  They are a tool.