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That's not what he said, he said "miners" not "minors."

I thought about not posting this because it's just silly and doesn't add anything to the conversation. But then I came across this:



How can he not possibly, but at the same time actually, yet not be able to? Wait, my leg got stuck under my armpit . . .

There was a persistent theory for a while that the Black Death started as a form of germ warfare. I don't know how much evidence there was, other than those filthy merchants who clearly wanted to kill off their own livelihoods traveling around spreading disease.

Then we'll just get illegal Russians and Laplanders and shit.

Semi relevant

Well, that was certainly convincing. Not as convincing as, say, if you had actually known what the DACA policy was a day ago when you started this (go on now and pretend you knew it capped at 2007) but still mighty convincing.

Rick Perry is showing how prescient he is by pointing to a letter he sent to Obama in 2012 talking about growing numbers of minors at the border. His letter pre-dates DACA by several months and is presumably based on several months data prior to that. So, no, short of major advances in Latin American chrono-journeying, DACA is not the primary cause of this influx nor are any DACA-related comments by the president.

Now, of course, it'll be "Well, but they knew we were thinking about it..." Hey, Rubio wanted credit for that DREAM Act idea, let's all blame Marco Rubio for this! They all saw this Hispanic guy talking about it and knew he must be inviting them all to flood the border!

In just three easy steps you can get your kid free US stuff as well as get them out of your hair. Simply send your child away from you forever on a harrowing journey across an ocean, traversing a desert on foot and finally facing armed border guards.

I'd have done it with my kids if the opportunity had presented itself.

Um... Because the Obama administration was ignoring the law with regards to deportations for quite some time before formally declaring it in DACA. That's what Perry was talking about. And at the time, he was complaining about a 90% increase in unaccompanied minors in 2012 bringing the total for the first 6 months to 5,200. But instead of changing his policy, Obama formalized it with DACA, and today we have 50,000 unaccompanied minors in the first 6 months.

Seems like Perry was dead on accurate with his criticism then. Obama ignored him, doubled down on the policy, and what happened? The problem got worse.



It wasn't just "thinking about it". They were doing it already. DACA was just Obama taking credit during an election cycle for a policy that had already been in place for a couple years so as to shore up support among Latino voters in the election that year. He was using it as a wedge issue by showing that he was "doing something", while the GOP was not. What's really really funny is that despite all these attempts by liberals to try to convince people that this influx has nothing to do with the non-deportation policy of the Obama administration, Obama himself has been trying to distance himself from the policy itself, by arguing that it wasn't him doing it, but the DHS. Which is funny since he used it in his campaign, so clearly he was on board.


Spin, spin, spin...

I know, right? And yet you keep repeating it.
"It was all DACA and they knew they'd get in!"
"Well, they knew that even though they don't qualify, they'd get in like someday!"
"Well, ok, so it wasn't really DACA but it was like they knew he was thinking about DACA and probably doing it anyway and so it WAS about DACA even though there was no DACA and-- LOOK, I was told this was all Obama's fault and so it just is, okay? It doesn't have to make sense!"