So I take it you’ll go back to Birmingham with him and explain why he voted against CHIP for the rural black communities who use it in favor of people who are not citizens?
Doug Jones does not represent California. His voters did not send him there to vote against their interests in favor of non-citizens.
This is precisely it.
In OUR country, citizens come before non-citizens, and legal non-citizens come before non-citizens illegally here. Ordinary Americans ought to be outraged over the fact that the Democratic Party in the Senate, for incredibly stupid reasons, chose to vote to allow the government to shut down over an issue that involves the rewarding of illegal non-citizens (albeit a group with an unusual situation not of their own making, but of their parents' making).
I favor working it out to keep the Dreamers in America, but not at the expense of a solution that would not deter future people from attempting to crash our borders on the theory that once they get here, "something will be worked out". It is in the interest of the citizens of the United States that our government keep running, its bills be paid, and its public servants be paid their due wages timely. If this means the Dreamers be deported, that's too bad, but so be it. Americans come first. That, by the way, is the approach of Mexico toward it's illegal immigrants from Central America; Mexicans come first.
Shutting down the government was both wrong and irresponsible when the Freedom Caucus and Tea Party imbeciles shut the government down in 2013. It was wrong when Newt Gingrich and his band of lunatics did it during the Clinton Administration. And it's wrong now. Period.
