Congress, don’t fix DACA



Sep 9, 2017

Honoring his campaign pledge, President Donald Trump refuses to renew the Obama regime unconstitutional executive order that bypassed Congress and granted temporary amnesty to illegal alien minors. Trump rightly has returned this prerogative to Congress with a deadline, if it wants to renew this amnesty.

Congress should not extend this deferred amnesty program, as it would cause chain migration that ignores and encourages future illegal immigration into the U.S. Continuing it would signal that we effectively have given up enforcing our immigration law and instead seek to reward those who illegally enter our country. Failure of repeal will invite thousands more illegal aliens to violate our borders, knowing that they, too, will obtain amnesty, and unfairly snubs immigrants who wait years and spend thousands to attain legal citizenship. Thousands of other illegal aliens then would demand the same amnesty for their children.

The Trump ultimatum should prompt Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform under his RAISE Act that would create a merit system of points based on a skills-based framework that rewards applicants based on their ability to show self-sufficiency and enhance our economy.

Doug Kagan, Omaha

The author is president of Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom based in Omaha.


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