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Jorge Garcia didn't get a say when his family brought him to the United States illegally. He was only 10. Although that's too old to qualify under the so-called DACA program, he's the new face of the deportation program that is rounding up people and sending them to a country they don't know.

Garcia, 39, has lived in Michigan for 30 years. He has a wife and young children. He ran a business. He paid his taxes. He has no criminal record, the 

He had asked immigration officials if he could stay pending the resolution of the DACA program, a conflict in Congress that threatens to invoke a government shutdown.

They said "no".  He was kicked out of the country on Monday.

Will Democrats stand up for the likes of Jorge Garcia by shutting down the government this week because of the lack of a deal on DACA?

Not likely, suggested Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report, during her regular politics segment on PBS NewsHour last evening.

"You have Democrats who are up [for re-election] in 2018 who sit in red states, who do not relish the idea of having to go into an election year defending a government shutdown," she said. "More fundamentally, in terms of their DNA, they like government; that's the whole point. So the idea that they would shut down government that provides services to people goes against everything that they stand for."

Which is why they won't stand for the Garcia family.

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Jorge Garcia didn't get a say when his family brought him to the United States illegally. He was only 10. Although that's too old to qualify under the so-called DACA program, he's the new face of the deportation program that is rounding up people and sending them to a country they don't know.


When push comes to shove, Dems unlikely to stand up for the likes of Jorge Garcia

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