Chief of staff calls immigrants afraid and lazy

Posted a couple of hours ago from the CNN website, the article explains that the chief of staff John F. Kelly suggested that immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA were "too afraid" or "too lazy". "There are 690,000 official DACA registrants and the President sent over what amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million" he said on Capitol Hill. "The difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up" he added. The article also goes on to talk about how Trump will not extend the March 5th deadline he gave to Congress concerning the act on the DACA policy. "Mr. Obama established the program, and it was considered to be unconstitutional, not based on any law, so the extension, I'm not so sure the president, this president, has the authority to extend it" Kelly added.
Reading this article made me confused and angry. I do not understand how anyone could call immigrants lazy. I do not think that the chief of staff Kelly understands how much of a process it is to apply and get approved for DACA. It takes patience and money. He also mentioned that immigrants should "get off the couch" an apply for DACA. I for one do not blame immigrants for being scared of the government and to apply for DACA as well. They have to spend their lives in fear of being deported and the government is not making it easier for them when they have people who work for the government saying stuff like this. CNN also posted that Trump would love to see another government shutdown if the Democrats won't agree to tighten immigration laws. The whole government is a mess and I do not see it getting any better from here.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/john-kelly-daca-deadline/index.html