Deandra Gutierrez

 

Democracy Now

March 9th

 

President Obama has been getting calls to stop his record deportation of undocumented immigrants'. In 2012 Obama grants a reprieve to undocumented youth who came to the U.S. as young children. Critics want to extended to their parents and to everyone who would be spared under the proposed immigration reform. The three senators who helped draft the bipartisan immigration reform bill, has called on Obama to stop deportations. The head of the National Council of La Raza, called Obama the nation's "deportee-in-chief" and he later called himself the "champion-in-chief" of comprehensive immigration reform. House republicans have all but ruled out an immigration reform vote until after mid-term elections. I'm not too sure what this is all about, but it seemed interesting. I think this should be something that is brought up in class so we can have a class discussion on this topic. Thursday's vote came just as the U.S. Army's top prosecutor for sexual assault cases was suspended for alleged sexual assault. Joseph Morse is accused of trying to kiss a colleague at a legal conference on sexual assault in 2012. Joseph Morse is the latest in series of Army officials involved in sexual assault oversight accused of committing some of the same crimes they're tasked with punishing. Also an Army general accused of sexual assault has pleaded guilty to three lesser charges. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair has admitted  to adultery, asking junior female officers for nude photos' and possessing pornography while deployed in Afghanistan. Sinclair will continue to fight assault charges and says he wants to face his accuser in court. I do not understand how people like this could be fighting for our country. I understand that people are not perfect, and everyone has their own faults, but things like this are not okay. Why would someone go from fighting for others to trying sexual assault someone. Makes no sense at all.