Trump’s Chief Of Staff John Kelly Leaves No Doubt He’s As Hard-Line On Immigration As Anyone In The White House

Even though 700,000 undocumented immigrants are signed up for DACA, there are an estimated 1.2-million or so more who would be eligible for it, but haven’t signed up.

Kelly characterized them as “people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses.” Making it very clear which side he comes down on.

What’s interesting about this is Democrats and other DACA supporters never asked for protection for the additional number of people who never signed up. Only Trump has.

Part of it’s a ploy: so the President can keep saying he’s being “very generous” even as he’s promoting unprecedented — and in some cases cruel — reductions in legal immigration.

We also increasingly believe Trump’s upping the number comes from a realization by someone in the White House that you don’t want to kill a booming economy by creating a labor shortage when you kick millions of people out of the country.

Trump’s plan also creates huge difficulties for Homeland Security in setting up a process for determining who’s legit…