Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy founded by the Obama administration in June 2012. DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

The problem with DACA is that is not the current state of our immigration laws, which requires that if a person is in our country illegally, then they should be deported.  There are no exceptions to this rule, although certain categories of persons can be granted temporary legal status for various reasons.  When Obama set up DACA, what he did was to prevent DHS from enforcing the immigration laws for a preferred group of people.

Unfortunately, Federal laws are made by congress, and the executive branch is charged with enforcing those laws.  Our constitution does not allow the executive branch to make laws, or to negate laws, so what Obama did was basically unconstitutional.

Upon first impression, DACA seems like a compassionate program that would be the right thing to do, even it is presently illegal. The immigration law would have to be changed.  But, as they say, the devil is in the details.

The government figures show that currently there are about 750,000 individuals participating in the DACA program.  That’s three quarters of a million illegal immigrants, brought here as children and raised in the United States.  Some came as infants, some as pre-teens, some as teenagers.  All of them were brought into the country illegally, by illegal immigrant parents.

If the law were changed to allow DACA participants to become naturalized citizens, that would fix the problem, right?  Sorry, that would create problems.

Under the current immigration law, a naturalized citizen can sponsor his family in order for them to receive green cards (permanent status).  So, the 750,000 DACA participants, if they became naturalized citizens, could petition for their parents, their siblings, their spouses, their stepchildren, and any foreign born children to receive green cards.  Granted, those illegal family members would be required to leave the country and wait for their respective applications to be approved, which is the current state of the law, but they would be given a chance that they didn’t previously have.

If each of the 750,000 DACA kids were to sponsor two parents, one spouse, and one sibling, that adds up to THREE MILLION potential new green card holders, which when added to the 750,000 DACA kids, makes a staggering 3,750,000 new legal residents who were previously categorized as illegal aliens.  And each and every one of those new green card holders would not have had the chance to get a green card without that DACA kid having been brought here illegally in the first place.

There is no easy solution, which is probably why no one has dared to try to fix it.  But under the latest action from President Trump, if congress doesn’t do its job and change the existing law, the DHS will do its job, and the dreamers will have to go.

 

 

I’m almost at a loss for words.
I’d like to say that this woman is the last sane person in America, but that would be far from the truth. In actuality, I think her message reflects the viewpoints of most American citizens. Those who represent the polar ends of the political spectrum seem to dictate the narrative in this country and it’s not difficult to see why they’ve gained the exposure. Members of the Radical Left and the Radical Right are simply more entertaining to watch, so the media portrays these events as a reflection of the norm. In all reality, most of us are going through life in the way that she described, interacting normally with people of every race. Listen, no one can deny that racism still exists in this country, but that doesn’t mean racism is constantly looming within everyone’s mind. I hate to be lax about this, but some people are just ignorant pricks. We honestly can’t do much to change that, but we should at least identify that these individuals don’t speak for us.

The most impressive part of this video was her identifying issues that actually concern her as an African American. This really resonated with me, because African Americans aren’t the only ones experiencing these issues, but rather the poor and disenfranchised as a whole. If you don’t think there’s a correlation between proper education, poverty and crime, here’s a link to check out: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137. Poor education leads to poverty, poverty leads to crime and the cycle continues. As for this woman, thank you making my Friday. It’s about time that someone sane spoke up for the people.