Thread: Former Dem 2016 Candidate: Let 'Obsessed' Trump Build Wall If It Saves DACA

Former Dem 2016 Candidate: Let 'Obsessed' Trump Build Wall If It Saves DACA

Jan 7, 2018 10:45 am
Fox and Friends

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) said it is "morally defensible" for Democrats to approve President Trump's planned border wall if it means protecting 800,000 DACA recipients living in the United States.

O'Malley said the wall is unnecessary and said the president has a history of "scapegoating" immigrants like those coming from Mexico.

But, he said that building a wall as Trump intends is small ball compared to his party's wish to give DACA recipients the ability to live freely in the country.

"I don’t think the people of the country believe that [the wall] is needed... But having to say that, if the trade-off for some legislators is that you have to accept Donald Trump’s obsession with his big wall, given the stable genius that he is, in order to make 800,000 people secure in their citizenship in the United States, I think that’s a morally-defensible trade-off," O'Malley, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, said.

He said Democrats' main concern with Trump's wall is the "thinly-veiled racism" that it allegedly implies.

When challenged on the point by the "Fox & Friends" hosts, given that Democrats have approved previous sections of border fences, O'Malley said Trump's history of disparaging illegal immigrants makes the situation different.

"Democrats don't want to be complicit in that," O'Malley, a former Baltimore mayor, said.

He also responded to remarks by former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he could "take" former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.) over Dean's comment that elderly Democrats should let a new generation lead the party.

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It's more than a wall, O'Malley, you need to find better news sources. It's the wall, chain migration, visa lottery, more border agents, more ice agents, more immigration prosecutors and judges, it's e-verify, and 61 more legislative items including tracking visa overstays. The wall is a big one, but not the biggest or most important one, like you say, it's actually "small ball."

Originally Posted by Judy

It's more than a wall, O'Malley, you need to find better news sources. It's the wall, chain migration, visa lottery, more border agents, more ice agents, more immigration prosecutors and judges, it's e-verify, and 61 more legislative items including tracking visa overstays. The wall is a big one, but not the biggest or most important one, like you say, it's actually "small ball."

When the so-called DACA amnesty bill hits the floor, if it does, you can bet all of those items certainly won't be in it.

Martin O'Malley knows if DACA Amnesty passes then states like Texas, Florida, and North Carolina will shift to Democrat blue within ten years allowing full and permanent control of US elections, laws, and government to socialist Democrats. Then they can take the Trump wall down or turn it into somekind of monument against hate.