Posted on 01/18/2018 3:19:26 PM PST by Kenny
When President Trump ended the illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), liberals and their media exploded. "Trump will rip these children from their families, from the only home they've ever known!
Of course, very few if any DACA recipients, also called "DREAMers," are "children." Applicants must be at least 15 years old and under 31 years of age to enroll in DACA. At least that was the rule.
That age limit went out the window in 2014, when Obama opened DACA to anyone who had ever been a child. Through a series of executive actions, Obama "expanded the (DACA) program to people of any current age who entered the United States before the age of 16 and lived in the United States continuously since January 1, 2010.
But wait, there's more! Obama's magical pen also takes care of Mom and Dad, allowing parents to apply for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA).
In fact, Obama took care of the whole family, expanding "provisional waivers of unlawful presence to include the spouses and children of lawful permanent residents and U.S. citizens
Factor in anchor babies, and it's chain migration on steroids.
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But okay maybe DREAMers in school or gainfully employed with no criminal record beyond their illegal residence should be allowed to stay. But then Congress should legalize DACA in its current form, not seek an upgrade. DACA doesn't give DREAMers a path to citizenship or even legal permanent residency. The very name states that it's "deferred action," a temporary reprieve.
Besides, DREAMers already have most benefits of citizenship. They can obtain a valid driver's license, enroll in college, and legally secure jobs. In fact, they can do everything except...wait for it
vote.
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Those are the facts.
I could live with flip and amnesty for those 870K and deport the other 30-60 million others.
It won’t be limited to those currently signed up.
Those type of deals never work.
This is our final chance to keep our country.
The Bush League Republicans in concert with the Democrats have been flooding the country with fraudulently documented foreigners for decades to force US into an amnesty.
They only need one more amnesty to complete the Bush Plan for North Mexico.
Once we legalize any number that will only result in pressure to amnesty the rest.
How can we deport their parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings?
Just say no.
If he ended it, why are they still here?
For parents? He ended the deferred deportations but I don’t know how many have been deported. I think they’re getting gangs/criminals out first.
Give amnesty to the DACAns—not `Dreamers’, Durbin and Co. ran that bill by Congress over-and-over and it never passed but the MSM uses it anyway—and every “immigrant” in America will claim to be one, along with their families, shirttail relatives and buddies back in Mexico waiting for Amnesty II.
No way Jose.
POTUS is doing everything humanly possible. Any criminals are being rounded up but ICE is stretched to the breaking point.
Meanwhile our government, Dems & GOP establishment, can’t get ICE increases passed, block the President at every turn.
Don’t try to blame any of this on POTUS, no one could do more.
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Never leave a threat unchallenged. He should have ended it last year and this crap wouldn't be around. Not only that, but several daca stays have killed while Obama and Trump has been in office. Trump ran on the death of Kate Steinle, but he doesn't mention Diana Martinez-Gonzalez, who was killed by a Obama daca under his watch.
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