A politician wants to persecute 'dreamers' to distract from his own felony trial
By Donald E. Graham August 24 at 8:25 PM
Donald E. Graham, chairman of Graham Holdings Company, was publisher of The Washington Post from 1979 to 2001.
The “dreamers” — an admirable group of young people — are in trouble and don’t deserve to be. They are being used as foils by a politician trying to distract attention from his own upcoming felony trial .
The politician is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). He proposes to use his state’s resources to persecute (no other word will do) young people who:
● Came to the United States as children under the age of 16 (the leading scholar of the group says that they came at an average age of 6) with their parents, who are undocumented immigrants. They have no way to change their status.
● Have never committed a felony or a serious misdemeanor, or three misdemeanors of any kind.
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