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Page 16 February 7, 2018 New Prices Effective April 1, 2017 O PINION Martin Cleaning Service Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Residential & Commercial Services Minimum Service CHG. $50.00 A small distance/travel charge may be applied CARPET CLEANING 2 Cleaning Areas or more $30.00 each Area Pre-Spray Traffic Areas (Includes: 1 small Hallway) 1 Cleaning Area (only) $50.00 Includes Pre-Spray Traffic Area (Hallway Extra) Stairs (12-16 stairs - With Other Services) : $30.00 Area/Oriental Rugs: $25.00 Minimum Area/Oriental Rugs (Wool) : $40.00 Minimum Heavily Soiled Area: $10.00 each area (Requiring Extensive Pre-Spraying) UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Sofa: $69.00 Loveseat: $49.00 Sectional: $109 - $139 Chair or Recliner: $25.00 - $49.00 Throw Pillows (With Other Services) : $5.00 ADDITIONAL SERVICES • Auto/Boat/RV Cleaning • Deodorizing & Pet Odor Treatment • Spot & Stain Removal Service • Scotchguard Protection • Minor Water Damage Services SEE CURRENT FLYER FOR ADDITIONAL PRICES & SERVICES Call for Appointment (503) 281-3949 What Trump Wants on Immigration is Ethnic Cleansing ‘Open hand’ full of poison pills P eter C erto I’ll be honest: I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union address when it aired. Instead, I put my baby to bed and watched reality TV with my wife. If that rattled a few brain cells, hopefully I saved a few more by not guz- zling the bourbon I’d set aside to steel myself for the speech. The next day’s headlines put an end to this brief indulgence in self care. Trump had extended an “open hand” to work with Democrats on immigration, they reported. He crowed that he’d come up with a “biparti- san approach” that “should be supported by both parties as a fair compromise.” The first part of the deal should sound familiar: Trump said he’d support “a path to cit- izenship” for nearly 1.8 million by undocumented young people, or Dreamers, in exchange for his border wall. What Trump didn’t say was that he’d already removed de- portation protections from the 700,000 young people who rely on the DACA program, which Trump unilaterally revoked. And he’d already re- jected an offer by Sen- ate Democrat Chuck Schumer to fund the wall in exchange for authoriz- ing those same people. Democrat Luis Gutierrez, perhaps the staunchest wall critic and immigrant advocate in the House, even said he’d “take a bucket, take bricks, and start building it myself” if it saved the Dreamers. Trump’s about-face on that deal is why the government shut down this January. Now Trump wants two more enormous concessions: an end to the so-called “diversity visa” program and the end of family reunification policies for doc- umented immigrants who are already here. Trump rattled off these demands like they were per- fectly reasonable — “a down- the-middle compromise,” he called them. They’re not. In fact, one former speech writer for the last White House called them “a white nationalist wish list.” That’s because, according to immigration analysts, those latter two provisions would cut legal immigration by nearly half. Half. And to get that, Trump’s ran- somed nearly 2 million Dream- ers, whom 80 percent of Amer- icans support legal status for. He’s taking them hostage, he says, “because Americans are Dreamers, too.” All you need to know about that last remark is that former KKK leader Da- vid Duke quoted it right back on Twitter, adding “Thank you, President Trump.” Let’s put all this in context. Trump’s offering a fig leaf of legal status for a relative- ly small slice of the undocu- mented population. In return, he wants to permanently — and drastically — reduce the number of all immigrants who come to this country. What Trump and his GOP backers want is ethnic cleans- ing. It’s not just the Dreamers Trump has endangered, after all. He’s unleashed his ICE stormtroopers on hundreds of thousands of immigrants with no criminal backgrounds, of- ten in hospitals, churches, and schools. And wherever he can, he’s turned perfectly legal residents into deportable immigrants overnight. With the stroke of a pen, he ended protections for 200,000 Salvadorans and 60,000 Hai- tians, while 57,000 Hondu- rans wait in limbo. And he’s brought refugee admissions to their lowest levels in over three decades, despite a global refu- gee crisis. All that tracks perfectly for a guy who called darker-skinned countries “s—holes” and won- dered why we can’t have more immigrants from Norway. Democrats who’d offer a border wall in the face of all this miss the point: That “open hand” is full of poison pills. Peter Certo is the editorial manager of the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of OtherWords.org.