Thread: Dream Act more lax than most know

Dream Act more lax than most know

By
The Washington Times
Monday, August 20, 2012

In “Obama is ready to sign up immigrants” (Web, Tuesday) writer Stephen Dinan points out that 1.7 million immigrants could be eligible for legal status through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), President Obama’s Dream Act by presidential fiat. The 1.7 million number shocks few despite the White House’s original claim that the amnesty would benefit 800,000 illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, the number of illegal immigrants eventually granted status, allowing them to compete with unemployed American workers, may be even higher.


During the 1986 amnesty, fraud was involved in one-fourth of the cases benefiting illegals. Logic suggests it will be even higher with DACA, which does not require in-person interviews for applicants and accepts affidavits for some requirements. The rolling amnesty component also encourages high numbers. As long as you were eligible in terms of age for the program on June 15 of this year, you stay eligible — you never get too old.

Open-border supporters love to describe the illegal immigrant who has lived in the United States from infancy and recently graduated at the top of his or her high school class. But how many of the 1.7 million illegals receiving amnesty fit this description? The education requirement has been watered down already — an illegal can have no education, enroll in an educational institution today, apply for the amnesty program tomorrow and never attend a class.

Citizens may not feel as strongly about the DACA-eligible 15-year-old who came into the country illegally and now, at age 21 or 30, with little education, will be allowed to stay and work. In addition, the children of those persons automatically will become citizens, qualifying them for all welfare programs.

The majority of Americans did not support the Dream Act, and Congress did not pass it.


MARGUERITE TELFORD
Director of communications
Center for Immigration Studies
Washington D.C.

Dream Act more lax than most know - Washington Times

"Citizens may not feel as strongly about the DACA-eligible 15-year-old who came into the country illegally and now, at age 21 or 30, with little education, will be allowed to stay and work. In addition, the children of those persons automatically will become citizens, qualifying them for all welfare programs.

The majority of Americans did not support the Dream Act, and Congress did not pass it."

It's bad enough these kids are getting privaleges, now we will have millionsof anchor babies. I'm telling you, something better be done and quickly before it is too late.

Originally Posted by Kiara

"Citizens may not feel as strongly about the DACA-eligible 15-year-old who came into the country illegally and now, at age 21 or 30, with little education, will be allowed to stay and work. In addition, the children of those persons automatically will become citizens, qualifying them for all welfare programs.

The majority of Americans did not support the Dream Act, and Congress did not pass it."

It's bad enough these kids are getting privaleges, now we will have millionsof anchor babies. I'm telling you, something better be done and quickly before it is too late.

I agree that something very significant needs to be done, and yesterday would not have been soon enough. Some people who are desperately in belief that govenment is not going to do anything are preparing for drastic self-defensive measures.

After working on this peacefully for 22 years, I cannot blame them for doing so. I do blame those who wouold not help when I first started sounding the alarm that this would get out of hand. 1986 may go down in history as the year that the United States began its own demise. The combination of "just say NO" and amnesty was just too inviting for those who saw large amouts of money to be made in those morbid decisions. Results were easily foreseable.

It seems that there is a political agenda to dilute the legal population to control it and they don't seem to care what they dilute it as long as it can be "controlled". Again, the administration has misrepresented its intentions and lied to the American people to enrich what it sees as a voter base to stay in power. They try to use the race card, and while we know that Hispanic is not a race, they just keep chanting the same lies. I am disgusted with the state of our country and the people that have brought it to this state.. JMO