The DACA 'Fix' That Immigration Activists [Socialist Agents] Fear

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-daca-fix-that-immigration-
activists-fear.html

When news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that
granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who
were brought to the United States as minors — some commentators tried to
find a ray of hope in the dismal forecast. Trump, they noted, would give
Congress six months to save the DACA-protected “Dreamers” from deportation
with a legislative fix. Never mind that House Republicans sabotaged a
chance to help Dreamers in 2013, when John Boehner, the House speaker,
refused to hold a vote on an immigration-reform bill that had passed in
the Senate to a vote on the House floor. Now, NPR reported, Republicans
might favor a bill introduced by Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida
that would give Dreamers a path to citizenship. “Overwhelmingly,
Republicans tell me: ‘Yes, I could support giving these young immigrants
permanent status in our country,’ ” Curbelo told “All Things Considered,”
“ ‘as long as we continue moving towards better border security, the
enforcement of our immigration laws.’ ” Yet among the undocumented
activists whom I got to know while reporting in Arizona earlier this year,
such a compromise is hardly viewed with relief. Rather it is the Catch-22
that they have been dreading ever since Trump was elected.

In emergency meetings and conference calls following Trump’s victory last
November, immigrant rights activists prepared for the coming changes in
federal immigration policy. Even then, they worried about what to do if
Congress linked the extension of DACA’s protections with a broader
enforcement crackdown. As I detailed in May, Dreamers were once viewed
skeptically by other undocumented activists, who believed that campaigns
designed to help Dreamers could undermine efforts to pass comprehensive
immigration reforms. These rifts were largely resolved when Dreamers
rallied behind efforts to help their parents after President Obama issued
the executive order on DACA.

By the time Senators Bernie Sanders and Dick Durbin held a private round
table with immigrant rights leaders in December 2016, the general
sentiment within the movement had become: divided, we fall. Erika Andiola,
the first president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, argued that
Democrats should filibuster any legislation that targeted undocumented
immigrants, even if it helped Dreamers. Greisa Martinez, the advocacy
director for United We Dream, who also attended the meeting in Sanders’s
office, told me: “It’s not a choice between do you protect the Dreamers or
do you protect the broader community.” She continued: “We believe that our
responsibility is to be able to do both things at once. One does not come
at the cost of the other.”

That idealistic unity may have begun to fracture 11 days ago, when leaks
began suggesting that Trump might terminate DACA, a scenario that provoked
terror among DACA recipients. In their DACA applications, they were
required to provide the federal government with detailed information about
themselves and their parents — names, addresses — in order to gain work
permits, driver’s licenses and other benefits of deferred action.

“Can you imagine? The government made a promise to us: come forward, come
out of the shadows and we’re going to promise you that you’re not going to
be in deportation proceedings,” Reyna Montoya, a Dreamer in Phoenix, told
me. “But they deferred our deportation, and now we’re there in the line.”
Worried that Trump might kill the program in a late-night tweet, Montoya
took to setting her alarm clock for 5 a.m., so she could start each
morning by checking whether her DACA protections had been destroyed.

In many cases, the stress of such uncertainty was felt not only by
Dreamers but also by their families. Their fears extended beyond the
nightmarish possibility of being tracked down through the information
volunteered in DACA applications. Though the general public often imagines
DACA recipients as college students, many of them are in fact parents or
full-time employees whose relatives depend on their legal income for
survival. And many undocumented family members have placed assets like
cars or homes under a DACA recipient’s name, or relied on a DACA child’s
Social Security number to take out loans. Even Andiola, a well-placed DACA
recipient who is now the political director of Our Revolution, could lose
the ability to make mortgage payments on the house that she bought for her
mother, Maria Guadalupe Arreola. Arreola told me that she knows many
families in the same predicament. Regardless of whether immigration agents
deport the Dreamers, with DACA gone, she said, their families “will be
ruined.”

Carlos Garcia, executive director of the immigrant rights group Puente
Arizona, views last week’s prolonged uncertainty as a calculated move,
designed to splinter the undocumented community. “I think it’s sadistic,”
he said. The six-month delay in implementing an end to DACA isn’t a
kindness, he argued. It would function like a “ticking clock” to pressure
Dreamers to accept whatever legislation Congress cobbles together — even
legislation, like “Kates’s Law,” which increases penalties for migrants
who try to return after deportation, or which includes funding for a
border wall, a measure that would otherwise be vigorously opposed. It
could also kneecap protests by other progressive activists, who might feel
that they should “sit back” for the sake of 800,000 DACA recipients,
regardless of what a congressional solution might mean for the lives of
millions of other undocumented immigrants. The question on some parents’
minds, according to the Puente organizer Maria Castro, may be: Am I O.K.
with being persecuted in order to save our child? Castro said: “I don’t
think there’s an answer to that communitywide.”

The stakes feel especially high after Trump’s recent pardon of Joe Arpaio,
the former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County. Arpaio was voted out of
office in 2016 after multiple lawsuits and a Pulitzer-winning
investigation by The East Valley Tribune exposed his abuse of power,
corruption and neglect of basic policing. Low points in Arpaio’s tenure
include the death of Deborah Braillard, who died in a diabetic coma in a
Maricopa County jail after being left to lie in her own feces and vomit
for 72 hours, expansive “crime suppression” sweeps of Latino
neighborhoods, stalled investigations of sex crimes and attempts to
intimidate two county supervisors and a sitting federal judge. Last month
Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt of court for defying a federal
judge’s order to stop detaining people based solely on suspicion of their
immigration status. According to Politico, his pardon has bolstered the
“constitutional sheriff” movement, whose members believe that county
sheriffs do not need to submit to federal law. “We hear from the opposite
side that we have to end DACA because it was an overreach of power,”
Montoya said, “but yet you’re willing to pardon someone who stands for
hate and for abuse of power.” Andiola cried with anger when she heard the
news.

“No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our
republic than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law,”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday afternoon, as he announced
the administration’s decision to rescind DACA. “Societies where the rule
of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become
societies afflicted by corruption, poverty and human suffering.” But the
close timing of Arpaio’s pardon and DACA’s termination suggests that under
Trump and Sessions, the rule of law will not be impartial: It will be
applied more strictly to Dreamers, who were raised as Americans, and who
must now scramble for a way to regain DACA’s protections without
sacrificing their own parents.

Deport ALL illegal aliens. Deport those who do not respect rule of law
and rights of native citizens.


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