DACA: Seven Facts About Obama’s Amnesty Decree

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President Barack Obama handed many problems over to President Donald
Trump, including Obama’s Oval Office amnesty, the “Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals.”

The fast-growing amnesty is very unpopular in the GOP’s base and is
being used by Democrats as a club to bash Trump. It likely cannot
withstand a promised lawsuit in the fall, but it will cost Americans a
huge amount of money if it keeps going.

Moreover, Obama’s decree is a standing insult to the nation’s
republican vision of constitutional, divided, limited and elected
government. Congress had rejected his amnesty plans, so Obama simply
launched his huge amnesty — almost 900,000 illegals were enrolled by
March 31, 2017 — via a presidential decree to his deputies.

GOP candidate Trump promised in 2016 to tear up Obama’s decree, but
back-pressure by his business-boosting aides and by the media have kept
the painful problem stuck in his inbox. So Obama’s DACA amnesty
continues to expand — 10,000 new illegals got enrolled from January to
March — and President Trump has not decided how he should clean up
Obama’s mess.

Here are Seven Painful Things about Obama’s “Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals” amnesty that Trump already knows.



DACA Is Still Growing



Obama’s deputies low-balled his election-campaign giveaway by initially
predicting it would only reach about 560,000 younger illegals who were
supposedly brought into the United States by their parents before they
turned 16.

But the amnesty has already provided almost 900,000 work-permits and
Social Security cards to illegals who say they are aged 36 or less.
More than 92 percent of the applicants got their DACA approvals, with a
rejection rate of only 7 percent. The amnesty is expected to rise above
1.9 million people as additional younger illegals become adults and try
to enroll in Obama’s giveaway.

Unless corrected, the DACA amnesty will expand further as the DACA
recipients avoid repatriation, and then gradually legalize themselves
by marrying Americans, giving birth to children on U.S. soil, and
finding good lawyers and friendly judges. Once a DACA recipient wins a
legal foothold this year or 10 years from now, they can eventually get
Green Cards, become citizens, and then they can sponsor their illegal
alien parents — the very people who brought the child or youth across
the border.

That is a long process, but Obama’s decree effectively puts roughly 2
million young illegals plus 1 million parents on a long path to
legalization. That path will eventually give them full access to the
nation’s welfare, medical and retirement programs.

DACA Is Not Sending The Best and Brightest

In 2014, fewer than one-in-ten of the 850,000 adult illegals then
potentially eligible for DACA had two-year vocational college
qualification or better, said a 2014 estimate by the pro-DACA group,
the Migration Policy Institute.

Only 1 percent, or 9,000 of the 850,000 younger adult illegals, had an
advanced degree — while 60 percent only have a high-school exit
credential. Only 1 percent, or 9,000 of the 850,000 younger adult
illegals, had an advanced degree in 2014, while 60 percent only had a
high-school exit credential.

Even the most flattering study of 1,472 young illegal migrants paints a
disastrous picture. Three-in-four earned less than $25,000 a year, and
only one-in-four earn enough to cover their monthly expenses, said the
study, which was prepared by a former illegal immigrant who is now an
advocate for amnesty and who works with the left-wing Center for
American Progress.

Another study by the same activist — Tom Wong of the University of
California, San Diego — showed that half of 467 DACA recipients were
earning less than $15 per hour. Worse, Wong’s study is not even an
accurate sample of the DACA people — roughly 83 percent of people used
in the study were from the tiny percent of DACA people had college
degrees or were enrolled in college.

The Department of Homeland Security is withholding a lot of data about
the DACA applicants. For example, outside researchers do not know how
many DACA recipients have college degrees, how many speak English or
how many have criminal records. Obama’s deputies declined to release
the data, which suggests the numbers are not flattering.

DACA Will Cost Americans And Their Government A Huge Amount of Money.

On average, people with college degrees pay more in taxes than they
receive in government benefits. People without a degree consume more
taxes than they pay to federal, state and local tax officials.

In 2013, a Heritage Foundation study showed that amnesty for 11 million
illegals would spike federal spending by $6,300 billion over the next
five decades. That is roughly equivalent to $550,000 per illegal, or
$10,000 per illegal per year, much of which will be spent when the
immigrant becomes eligible for Social Security and Medicare. That cost
estimate does not include the extra costs created when immigrants use
their new legal powers as a citizen to bring in more low-skilled
migrants.

Many reports back up this pessimistic Heritage statement. For example,
the 2016 report by the National Academy of Sciences showed that each
legal immigrant costs roughly $1,600 in state and local taxes (not
federal taxes) above the taxes paid by immigrants. Overall, the annual
cost of each immigrant is roughly equal to tax surplus created by each
native-born American, which ranges from $1,300 to $1,700, says the
report, titled “The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration.”

If those 3 million DACA people and their parents soon become legal
residents or citizens, then Obama’s DACA will cost Americans roughly
$1,700 billion over the next 50 years, according to Heritage
Foundation’s numbers.

Moreover, the DACA migrants add to the flood of illegal labor that has
driven down wages for ordinary Americans, including urban youths and
recent immigrants. Currently, Americans lose roughly $500 billion a
year from their salaries because of the “immigration tax” caused by
cheap labor, according to the academies’ report.

Whenever wages are kept down, employers can profit from cheap labor, so
they don’t have a reason to buy high-tech labor-saving robots from
American manufacturers. That drop in investment reduces the nation’s
long-term productivity — and it invisibly cuts the government’s future
tax receipts which are needed to pay for the growing wave of retirees
and healthcare patients. That unseen process ensures that Obama’s DACA
amnesty is the opposite of Trump’s popular plan for a productivity-
boosting “merit-based” immigration reform.

DACA Encouraged More Illegal Immigration

Obama declared his DCA amnesty in 2012. Central Americans saw the
announcement, read the details — and roughly 400,000 people headed
north during the next four years.

Obama welcomed this northward migration by “Family Units” and supposed
“Unaccompanied Alien Children” from Central America to Texas and then
to every other state. To help them, Obama reinterpreted a 2008 law to
let them file lawsuits in the United States. By 2016, his migration
included a growing flow of people from Cuba, Africa and Asia who were
hoping to use Obama’s migration-friendly border policies to let more
people apply for asylum.

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Obama opened the gates as much as he dared because he does not believe
that Americans are allowed to decide who can enter their nation. He
said so in November 2014:

Part of what’s wonderful about America is also what makes our democracy
hard sometimes, because sometimes we get attached to our particular
tribe, our particular race, our particular religion, and then we start
treating other folks differently. And that, sometimes, has been a
bottleneck to how we think about immigration. If you look at the
history of immigration in this country, each successive wave, there
have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say,
well, I don’t want those folks. Even though the only people who have
the right to say that are some Native Americans.

But Trump believes Americans are allowed to have borders, and so he
almost entirely stopped the migration by simply promising to enforce
existing law.

However, the 11 million resident illegals in the United States, plus
the new migrants from Central America, have created new political facts
on the ground in the United States. For example, these cheap-labor
migrants are employed by many service-sector businesses in affluent
Democratic cities. Their importance prompts Democratic governors and
mayors to create “Sanctuary Cities” to shield their donors’ cheap labor
from federal law. In turn, those cheap-labor states and cities become
the destination for more migrants.

In May, for example, the number of border crossers jumped by 31 percent
from April.

DACA Imports Crime

DACA has kept a population of roughly 900,000 young adult illegals in
the United States and also encouraged 400,000 Central American migrants
into Americans’ neighborhoods and schools.

Some of those young illegals and migrants have drifted into various
criminal gangs, such as MS-13. Obama’s deputies even sent some known
MS-13 members into the United States. The inflow of gang-bangers is
causing a growing pile of dead teenagers and youths in New York, Texas,
Virginia and several other states. MS-13 members are also facing rape
charges. Other non-DACA young migrants add to the background level of
crime. In June, for example, a young migrant from Central America was
charged with killing an American girl on her way to a mosque in
Virginia.

Even if the rate of crime by the illegals is lower than similar-aged
Americans, Obama’s inflow has killed a few handfuls of Americans and
immigrants. Each of those additional dead Americans is dead, regardless
of the relative crime rate.

The federal government has yet to release data about the numbers of
crimes by DACA-approved people.

DACA Helps Democrats

Obama created DACA to help the Democratic Party, and the resulting
group of DACA-approved ‘Dreamers’ is an important element in the
Democrats’ diverse coalition.

The young illegals got that media-approved signature soon after
Democrats filed a pro-amnesty bill, the “Development, Relief, and
Education for Alien Minors.” Ever since, the establishment media has
helped rebrand the young illegals as ‘Dreamers.’ That U.S. media does
not similarly reward young Americans by favorably portraying them, for
example, as aspiring ‘Doers.’

The DACA population includes a subset of well-educated, clever, English
speaking, and attractive activists. Understandably, rationally,
reasonably, they want to stay in the United States, so they work hard
to win the sympathies of Americans and the votes of legislators. That
task is made relatively easy because Americans want to like hard-
working immigrants — even as they also want reductions in the large-
scale legal immigration which is making life difficult for themselves,
their kids and their neighbors.

The Democratic Party uses the DACA immigrants to present an attractive
picture of illegal immigrants. In the 2013 and 2014 fights over the
“Gang of Eight” amnesty-and-cheap labor bill, the DACA recipients were
used to keep the media focused on the desires of would-be immigrants —
and not on the needs and preferences of actual Americans.

If the DACA people are ever allowed to become citizens, it will be a
huge ballot-box gain for Obama and his allies — and a hit for Americans
who prefer smaller government: Only 2.3 percent of ”undocumented
millennials” are pro-GOP, according to a survey by Wong.

Moreover, that same survey also shows that just 28 percent of young
illegals would be satisfied by an immigration-reform compromise which
allows them to work and stay in the United States without becoming
citizens. In contrast, 70 percent want citizenship, partly because
that’s how they can get Green Cards for their parents. That 70 percent
means the most of the “Dreamers” will oppose any compromise that
doesn’t also amnesty their parents.

DACA Is Fundamentally Illegitimate

Congress has rejected DACA-type laws many times, even when the
Democrats were in charge of Congress. Yet Obama created the DACA
amnesty by simply telling his deputies to stop enforcing the nation’s
law against a huge group of illegal immigrants who are favored by the
Democratic Party.

Legally speaking, there would have been little difference between
Obama’s stand-down order to immigration officers and an order by
President George W. Bush telling the IRS officials to stop collecting
taxes owed by his circle of Texas Republicans.

So far, Obama and his allies have managed to head off any lawsuit
against DACA.

But the U.S. courts have condemned and blocked Obama’s expanded 2014
version of DACA, called the ‘Deferred Actions for Parents of
Americans,” which would have provided work-permits to roughly 4.5
million illegals. Many Democrats admit the 2012 DACA has the same legal
flaws as the illegitimate 2014 DAPA. Trump’s deputies know this — and
they are now watching a group of GOP Attorneys General promise to file
a killer lawsuit against DACA in September.

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The civic harm created by an illegitimate or flawed government can
expand, echo and continue for decades. Consider New York’s wartime rent
controls which were established 74 years ago. That 1943 market
intervention is politically entrenched by subsequent updates, so it
still benefits the well-connected and the lucky, and it still harms
many Americans who are forced to pay more for smaller apartments
further from their work. It also harms many more unseen Americans who
never move to the city because of apartment shortages and high rental
costs.

If left untouched, Obama’s don’t-enforce-the-law DACA precedent could
become the model for future Presidents.

Can President Trump declare that the Department of Homeland Security
is not allowed to deport illegals who are employed at hotels or
resorts? Perhaps he could simply allow his fellow real-estate
developers to opt-out of IRS audits? Should the President 2026 direct
the Environmental Protection Agency to stop enforcing pollution laws in
swing-state Ohio? Maybe a future chief executive in 2045 could tell the
FBI to ignore arson attacks against churches?

Every day that DACA exists, it mocks the fairness, uniformity, and
equality of U.S. immigration laws. It refutes the civics textbook claim
that the President is bound by the nation’s laws. It stands as a proof
that favored groups can simply ignore the written law when either
political faction is on their side and tells disfavored groups that
they have no rights that the powerful need respect.

One of today’s unfavored groups are the Americans whose job prospects
and wages have been reduced by Obama’s open-arms welcome for illegal
immigration.

But the Constitution grants those Americans recourse to the ballot box,
and so they elected the nation’s 45th President to ensure their equal
treatment under the law.

President Trump is now deciding whether their legitimate demand is to
be recognized or ignored.

Bonus Point: The population of 2 million young people who are either in
DACA, or potentially eligible for DACA, would be a boon to the poorly
educated workforce of Mexico and Central America. Their population’s
English language skills, familiarity with U.S business practices, and
their expectations of low official corruption would help Mexican
companies improve their productivity — and also help American companies
sell more goods and services in Mexico’s fast-growing economy. In
short, the return of DACA people would be a large economic aid program
for Americans’ neighbors south of Texas.

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