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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters about the GOP tax bill following the Democratic Caucus weekly policy meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Letter writer says Sen. Chuck Schumer’s statement that “the American people are on our side” is arrogant and a bit presumptuous.
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The Democratic shutdown of the federal government is bad enough. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s statement that “the American people are on our side” is arrogant and a bit presumptuous.

There is no, I repeat, no immediate deportation action regarding the DACA population. The president has said that Congress must come up with a solution to the problem, and he is correct. The DACA problem should not be the rationale for a government shutdown; this has been labeled “Schumer’s shutdown.” I call it “Schumer’s Folly.” Either way, it does the American people no good and should be halted before the world laughs at our government (or lack thereof).

Frank Fletcher
San Jose

 

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