In mid-2012, the Obama Administration began to enforce a policy known as DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. What DACA did was allow certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors (presumably alongside family members) to receive “deferred action” from deportation for two years, and allow them to be eligible for a work permit. The two-year deferral can be renewed.
Children of illegal immigrants born in America automatically become legal U.S. citizens – so presumably DACA aims to extend birthright citizenship for the children of illegals who weren’t born here.
Few studies have been done on the effects of DACA – and none have quantified the effects on net basis. However, one study published in the Journal of Public Economics last year found that DACA moved between 50,000 and 75,000 illegal immigrants into employment from either outside the formal labor force or unemployment. Another way to view that would be 50k-75k fewer jobs for other Americans.
Even so, DACA is probably going to be done away with thanks to Trump’s immigration agenda.
President Donald Trump is leaning toward ending DACA, according to multiple sources.
Trump has to make a decision before Sept. 5 when the 10-plus state attorneys general, led by Texas A.G. Ken Paxton, said they’d sue the Trump administration to end it and force the administration’s hand. Trump has to decide whether to defend the program or not, thereby ending it. The president’s decision on DACA, could be announced as early as next week, one source said.
Trump had told ABC News in January that people protected here under DACA, also called DREAMers, “shouldn’t be very worried.”
“They are here illegally. They shouldn’t be very worried,” President Trump said in an Jan. 25 interview with ABC News’ David Muir. “I do have a big heart. We’re going to take care of everybody. We’re going to have a very strong border. We’re going to have a very solid border. Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried.”
H/T ABC News
Trump will undoubtedly be portrayed as an unsympathetic monster for repealing DACA. But is he really the one to blame? Or are the illegals who brought their children here knowing full well the consequences of their actions?
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