Why Should We Care About *DREAMers*?

[Joe Cooper]

I know Democrats really want us to care about the so-called “DREAMers,”
illegal aliens brought to the country as children by their illegal alien
parents. And the media desperately wants us to care about them, too. It
trots out hand-picked illegals to tell their sad tales of woe, detailed
stories designed to tug at heartstrings and trigger emotion to override
logic. But one question remains: Why should we care?

To be honest, I don’t. I know that’s not socially acceptable to say.
Politicians in both parties are falling all over themselves to be seen
caring about the fate of these 800,000 illegal aliens benefiting from the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. President
Barack Obama willed into existence with his magic pen. But I just don’t.
At least not all of them.

I care about Americans. I care about people who came here legally. I care
about our laws and the Constitution.

The beautiful thing about the liberty we enjoy in the United States is we
are free to change our laws or amend our constitution should our elected
representatives choose to do so. When President Obama created DACA he
circumvented the very system the Founding Fathers invented to do just
that. That’s why I don’t care.

President Obama said at the time that if Congress wouldn’t act, he would.
Then he changed the law with his pen.

This unconstitutional usurpation of power was encouraged by Democrats
before he did it, and cheered after. When President Donald Trump reversed
it, Democrats were outraged.

In defense of Obama’s actions, and to defend against Trump’s, some said
the former president had to act. When asked about subverting the role of
Congress, Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said: “That's why the executive
order was in place after failing so many times to make sure that people
had protection from deportation.”

An illegal alien “DREAMer” named Victor Erives Jr agreed, telling Jake
Tapper, “I believe he (Obama) did the right decision, because Congress
didn’t do anything to help us or put us in a legal status. But let's
remember we tried to do that, and the DREAM Act came in as executive
orders because it failed back in the day, when it did not get through the
Senate.”

Both men miss the point, or more accurately, they confuse the point.

There has been a push to pass the DREAM Act, in one form or another,
since 2001. It has never passed Congress. Yes, that sounds simple, but
that’s only because it is.

Congress not passing a bill, rejecting a bill, is not “refusing to act.”
It is Congress acting.

There is no obligation for Congress to pass anything but a budget, and it
pretty much has refused to do that in the last decade. When presented
with the opportunity to grant legal status to illegal alien children,
Congress repeatedly has said no. That choice, that refusal to pass
legislation, is action. It’s obviously action some people disagree with,
but so are a lot of the actions congresses and presidents have chosen to
take.

Congress said no. No means no.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said this week the parents who
came to the country illegally, dragging their kids along with them and
creating this awful situation for them, “did a great thing” by ignoring
our sovereignty and breaking our laws. Left unsaid by Pelosi or any of
her allies in the media is when she was Speaker of the House, she and her
Democratic colleagues could have passed the DREAM Act, if they wanted to.

From 2009 till 2011 Democrats, led by Pelosi and former Senator Harry
Reid, D-Nev., could have passed anything they wanted – the DREAM Act,
total and complete amnesty, renaming the country “Amnestyville” – and
they didn’t. Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, yet
did nothing. They “acted” to keep the issue alive for electoral purposes.

Those chickens came home to roost for Pelosi, who ended up being shouted
down by a group of “DREAMers” at a press conference she tried to hold in
San Francisco. Obnoxiously, these entitled brats who’ve been empowered by
Democrats to be “victims,” demanded not only amnesty for themselves, but
for their parents and every other illegal alien as well.

This is where they lose me and why I don’t care.

These pampered and pandered to brats deserve nothing.

I’m inclined to support the ability of some to stay on a case-by-case
basis – for those who meet standards of education, accomplishment, not
having broken any more laws, honorable military service, etc. – on the
condition their parents never, ever are granted legal status. But
activists – people here illegally – who demand the privilege to stay, to
have a say in, if not control over, the political process of a country
they’re in illegally? Those people need to go.

That may sound cold, but they’ve earned it. Anyone with that sense of
entitlement won’t become a productive member of society, and productive
members of society are the only people we should consider for permanent
entry into the United States.

So even though we’re supposed to care, I don’t. I’ll feel as badly as
everyone else when hand-picked stories are told for their emotional
impact about individuals, but I won’t have my logic overruled by
emotions. I care about the Constitution, and I care about Americans. This
country has a door – come through it, through the process and I’ll
welcome you with open arms. I’m even open to extraordinary circumstances
and exceptions to the rules.

But climb in a window and start making demands or shouting down anyone
(including Nancy Pelosi), and you’ve lost me. Like Congress, I’m saying
“no,” and saying no is a completely valid action.

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