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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, you're right. But DACA was preceded by the Dream Act, Congressional legislation that had been debated and voted on in both the House and Senate over the course of a number of years. Moreover, both the Dream Act and DACA were preceded by decades of public discussion, press reports, polling of the populace and political jockeying over the issue of illegal immigration and how to treat people brought to the US as children, when they had no say in the matter. Immigration to the US has been a topic much discussed and argued about in public and private settings in the US as far back as I can remember, which goes back to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.

Whereas the matter of turning back Title IX; opening up female sports to males; ending of all sex segregation in toilets, locker rooms, shelters, prisons, etc; denying girls and women our previous right to safety privacy, dignity and a measure of peace of mind in facilities where we deal with bodily functions, and so on is entirely different. With the rare exceptions of the "bathroom bills" several years ago, none of these enormous policy changes and their implications have been discussed and debated in the press, by politicians or by the public. No polling has been done. It's all just been rammed through through by the back door and from on high without the body politic having any chance to ask, what's going on and why?

[–]our_team_is_winning 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's all just been rammed through through both the back door and from on high without the body politic having any chance to ask, what's going on and why?

The Trans Lobby have big money and politicians like big money donations. Only answer I can come up with.