Posted on 01/03/2018 2:16:01 PM PST by Kaslin
When President Trump announced his decision to wind down DACA, which protects illegal aliens who came to America before their 18th birthday, Democratic leaders were secretly pleased. They thought DACA gave them a way to defeat the president, and compel him to cave in on the issue in order to avert a government shutdown just before Christmas.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was created by a stroke of President Barack Obama’s pen in 2012, even after Obama said 22 times that he lacked the power to do that. DACA provided a two-year work permit with a valid Social Security number to around 800,000 illegal aliens, a number that has since dropped through attrition to about 690,000.
No one denies that Trump has the power to rescind an executive order by his predecessor, but many were misled by polls showing that DACA is a popular program. Depending on how the question is asked, polls show many Americans sympathize with the plight of young people who were supposedly brought here through no fault of their own.
But the real poll is on Election Day, and Donald Trump was elected president primarily because of his commitment to control our borders and reduce immigration. If Trump could be rolled by the media on his signature issue, it would undermine his presidency and make it that much easier for Democrats to defeat the rest of the Trump agenda.
Thinking they had Trump on the defensive, Democrats laid plans to expand DACA from a two-year work permit for 700,000 people all the way to permanent residency for some 4 million illegal residents. Democrats felt so confident that they would win on the DACA issue that they started posturing already for how to expand its amnesty to include many millions.
Now Democrats are making similar threats about extending DACA as a condition for the next budget deadline on January 19, but the terms of the debate have changed. Instead of DACA and the Dream Act, Trump has forced public attention on chain migration.
Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Trump served notice via Twitter about the new deal that Democrats would face in the new year: “There can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border,” he warned, “and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our country at all cost!”
A helpful web page was created by the White House to elaborate on the president’s tweet. According to this page at whitehouse.gov, chain migration is “the process by which foreign nationals permanently resettle in the U.S. and subsequently bring over their foreign relatives, and so on, until entire extended families are resettled within the country.”
The numbers are huge. On average, according to the White House, “every 2 new immigrants bring 7 additional foreign relatives to permanently resettle in the U.S.”
In just the last ten years, some 9.3 million people have been allowed to settle permanently in the United States solely because of their familial ties to another immigrant. That’s more than the total population of Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Cleveland – combined.
“This system of chain migration – whereby one immigrant can bring in their entire extended families, who can bring in their families and so on – de-skills the labor force, puts downward pressure on wages, and increases the deficit,” explains the White House website. The Trump administration is absolutely correct that low-skill immigrants increase the fiscal deficit by consuming more in benefits than they pay in taxes.
Chain migration “de-skills the labor force” because those immigrants, on average, have lower or fewer skills than the Americans who are already here and struggling to find adequate employment. While the vast majority of immigrant green cards were based on family ties, only 6 percent were issued on the basis of skills.
Despite low unemployment figures being reported, as President Obama’s chief economic adviser Jason Furman recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “some 9 million men of prime age – that is, between 25 and 54 – still are not working.” Furman ignored immigration, but it’s not just a coincidence that 9 million men exited the labor force during the same period that 9.3 million low-skill immigrants settled in the United States.
“The bulk of the decline in employment,” Jason Furman continued, “has been for men with a high-school diploma or less, who have seen their employment rates fall from 97% in 1964 to 83% today.” That’s the same group that is most harmed by the policy of allowing low-skill immigrants to come here and fight for the same jobs.
For more than 50 years, America’s immigration policy has been set by an unholy alliance between liberal Republicans, who seek to please their donors with access to cheap labor, and Democrats in search of more votes for their progressive agenda. Under the Trump administration, that corrupt bargain is finally coming to an end.
Yes Elsie, if you’re the seller, you’re happy to see the citizen frozen out.
If the citizen can only afford $2000 a month payments, he can’t go over a loan that would result in that amount.
If the illegal is packing in three to a home, they can afford to go over $666.00 a month.
Elsie, I live in Southern California.
There are places in my area I can’t even travel at night anymore. I have lived in this area for 45 years. I am familiar with what they looked like in the 70s, and now in the 2010s.
The neighborhoods are run down, and it’s irrefutable that these properties are being stressed inside and out. The neighborhoods are also stressed.
Your question about who would,... is one that comes from our mindset. Some folks just consider it rent and walk away.
Division of labor? LOL
Put 9 to 12 children in a single family two or three bedroom dwelling and find out what you have to deal with in short order.
That’s the plan Jim. Get the wall built and explain to folks they need to go home. This isn’t home. This is a foreign nation to foreign nationals.
They gambled and broker our laws, and they lost.
Ain’t Capitalism great!
And I lived on the eastside of Indianapolis all my life.
I agree with everything that you just posted and there are places in Indy just as you’ve described.
I’m just glad this world is not my home: I’m justa passin’ thru.
Yup.
Ellis Island weeded them out; back in the day.
Teeming masses indeed.
Yearning to be free.
It's a no-win scenario for us, and a no-lose for them.
Being stuck in that position really PI$$ES me off.
So I no longer feel compassion for those who create a bad situation, then appeal to me to bail them out.
Those 'dreamers' got a much better lifestyle than they deserved. They're ahead.
It is Elsie, when we’re competing on level ground with other citizens. When outside forces contaminate the well, it can lead to problems.
I’m happy about that too. It’s a nice thought.
While here though, I believe it is our duty to keep our house in order so that our own progeny is not handed off a worse situation than what was handed to us.
This is one reason why I am so happy to have Trump as our president. I believe that he will turn back the clock on a lot of Leftist things that were destroying our nation.
Things will be better for us, and they will also be better for those who follow.
It’s a great time to be alive, watching this take place.
I’m not against legal immigration, but IMO it has also gotten out of hand what with the so-called refugee type nonsense.
IMO< we need a good 25-30 years of very little immigration, so that folks here can grasp our system and become Americanized.
What we are doing is suicidal right now.
Most of us have been raised to be compassionate to others. I don’t like having to bring the hammer down on these people, but I also have a responsibility to act in a judicious manner to protect my family, community, state, and nation.
Come here legally, I have no problem with you, as long as my government manages the population to be disbursed through many communities. No community should be flooded with new immigrants to the point it erases all previous occupants in a matter of a few decades. That’s nothing but complete chaos and disruption. It happened in my town, and it is VERY problematic.
Your points are well stated also. I appreciate the note.
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