The State of the Union address last week seems so distant now, doesn’t it?
Since then, the country’s been put on the path toward a constitutional crisis as debate rages on about the memo released a few days later by the House Intelligence Committee. The government is going paycheck to paycheck with another need for a continuing budget resolution in days. And hanging in the balance is the fate of 1.8 million undocumented people in our country, including nearly 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program recipients, also known as “dreamers.”
So, who needs to talk about education in a State of the Union address when the state of the union is in chaos?
Just the way Trump likes it.
Trump’s address did take the time to educate us in his own xenophobic way about MS-13, the violent international criminal gang, with some members who have come to this country from Mexico. Trump took more time on that than he did on how to educate a growing and diverse nation. Oh, and those dreamers? Trump was clear about his feelings when he said “Americans are dreamers, too.”
That’s even though many DACA recipients are tax-paying residents of this country, not to mention those enrolled in our colleges and universities preparing to make their mark in our country.
And even with a number of dreamers in the audience as guests, Trump purposefully and shamelessly zeroed in on victims of MS-13 gang violence.
