If you noticed, during the campaign it was all illegals must go and all of Obama’s illegal executive orders would be repealed. Since then it is only those who have been convicted of other crimes that have to go and DACA is still operating as if it were law and not something Obama dreamed up.
Are you going to be behind amnesty if Trump says so?
During the campaign, Trump said that the criminal aliens would be the first priority along with border security. He also said that immigration laws would be enforced. As long as Trump has Jeff Sessions as AG and Kris Kobach as an advisor on immigration issues, I remain confident that Trump will do what he has said recognizing the logistics involved and what is possible. Attrition thru enforcement is the way to go. It is not a binary choice between a blanket amnesty or mass deportation.
Since then it is only those who have been convicted of other crimes that have to go and DACA is still operating as if it were law and not something Obama dreamed up.
Trump is correct to direct his priorities and resources to get rid of the criminal aliens and their sanctuary cities. DACA is a different animal. It was promulgated thru an unconstitutional executive order that very few Reps challenged. In fact, Eric Cantor was in the process of introducing a Rep "Dreamer Bill," and was running around the country with Gutierrez. Fortunately, Dave Brat ousted Cantor in the primary, something I had a part in. This setback the GOPe plan to support an amnesty.
DACA has legalized 800,000 "Dreamers," which makes it difficult to unravel without paying a major political cost. DACA enjoys significant popular support with some polls having it above 50%. The Dems and the MSM have been successful in portraying this as the case of children being brought here by their illegal alien parents and raised as Americans. Sending them back to their home countries is deemed as punishing the children for the sins of the parents. The facts are quite different starting with the actual Executive Order that does not mention the parents at all or how the children got here. They just have to get here and they can be up to age 15. We have had a flood of unaccompanied children, most of them male teenagers with many being over 15, but we have no real way of verifying their ages. The bottom line is that DACA must be addressed at some point, just not now. There are various solutions how to do it, but first we must cut off the supply.
One further note, Obama ordered that the parents of Dreamers not be pursued or removed as long as they were not criminally active. It just gave incentives for more parents to come here illegally knowing that their children provided them protection from deportation.
Are you going to be behind amnesty if Trump says so?
I don't support amnesty. When you reward something, you get more of it. It is important to remember that over 60% of the green cards awarded annually come from change of status. It is done on an individual basis. Many of the recipients came here illegally or legally and overstayed their visas. We have a rolling amnesty now. And there are over 1 million absconders who have gone thru the entire legal process and ordered deported. They are running around the country, many of them criminals who have served their time in US prisons and then released.
Despite being in office for just a few months, Trump has been the best President we have had on immigration since Eisenhower. Both Bush 41 and 43 were disasters and Nixon was not much better. Reagan made a serious mistake in 1986 with his "one-time" amnesty. Ed Meese said it was Reagan's biggest mistake while President.