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| Judge Andrew Hanen |
On its face, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was a compassionate concept.
Yes, unless their parents were seeking assylum, these kids had been brought to this country illegally.
But, by 2017, during the Trump administration, the average age for so-called DACA recipients was 24. Sending them "back" to any country was essentially ripping them away from the only life in their memory as most had been brought here as toddlers two decades earlier.
Trump, who had promised during his 2016 campaign to "protect" DACA kids, was now trying to reverse positions with his immigration policy being carefully woven and phrased by White Supremecist/racist speechwriter Stephen Miller.
Even without reading Judge Andrew Hanen's 77 page rationale for shutting down DACA, it's not difficult to understand its legal correctness.
So, now we're told we have 616,000 DACA kids living in limbo in this country with no current path to citizenship, with no real certainty they won't be deported at some point.
Nearly half of the DACA recipients, now young adults, are from two states, California and Texas.
FYI, 80% of these now young adults are originally from Mexico, a few percentage points from each of the Central American countries, 1% from South Korea and a sprinkling from other countries.
The educational and military provisions written into the plan ensured the DACA group be well educated, some with military experience, but most with job skills.
So, from a purely selfish standpoint, our country would suffer a considerable brain drain and depletion of the work force with the banishment of the DACA recipients.
Our country needs more essential workers, not fewer, more taxpayers, not fewer.
The temporary fix for the DACA group is the American Dream and Promise Act, proposed by the current administration.
The permanent fix, however, is a overhaul of our immigration laws, something the legislative branch of our government has been unable to achieve the last several decades.
It's easy. Just enforce the law or change the law. Congress does not want to change the law. That's why Obama created DACA with an executive order. Even though he had a Democrat majority in the House and Senate he couldn't change the law. So he created DACA through executive order which the court has now ruled was illegal. As it should be. Only Congress can pass laws.
ReplyDeleteSO ENFORCE THE LAW. DO THE SAME AT THE BORDER. UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION AND YOUR OATH AND UPHOLD THE LAW.
Oh, go and fuck yourself, you fucking idiot. Times change, asshole. It's not 1776 all over again!
DeleteWhat does 1776 have to do with what's going on now? Also what's wrong with enforcing the law? What's wrong with politicians following the Constitution and enforcing the laws they swore to protect. Go ahead and send insults since you have no facts. Insults is all you've got. Remember you're the party of unity and tolerance right?
Deleteoverhaul is easy to say. But how would you overhaul it? Your next assignment. For tomorrow's paper.
ReplyDeleteWho cares how you overhaul it. Enforce the law while you decide.
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