Thread: Citizenship for DREAMers — ‘We Warned This Would Happen,’ Say Immigration Hawks

by JOHN BINDER
3 Sep 2017
Washington, D.C.
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Immigration hawks say illegal alien recipients of an Obama-created amnesty program obtaining Green Cards and even U.S. citizenship was “bound to happen.” They want to see illegal and legal immigration reduced to relieve Americans of the burden.

New USCIS data released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that more than 40,000 illegal aliens who were previously protected by Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program managed to obtain backdoor amnesty because of an advanced parole loophole.

Under advanced parole, illegal aliens protected by DACA were allowed to leave the U.S. and return, transforming their once illegal status into a now formally legal immigrant status.

The findings of the USCIS data reveal:

45,447 DACA recipients have been approved for advance parole
59,778 DACA recipients have applied for Lawful Permanent Resident, known as a ‘Green Card’
39,514 DACA recipients have been approved for a Green Card
Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 2,181 have applied for U.S. citizenship
Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 1,056 have become U.S. citizens

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan was one of few immigration analysts to sound the alarm in 2012 on DACA recipients’ potential for obtaining Green Cards and U.S. citizenship.

The year Obama enacted DACA via executive action, Vaughan penned a piece titled “So Much for ‘No Path to Citizenship’ for DACA DREAMers,” where she outlined how DACA would quickly become a backdoor amnesty.

“When President Obama announced on June 15 that he would bypass Congress and offer legal status to the so-called DREAMers, he said: ‘Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship.’ False on all three counts, as it turns out,” Vaughan wrote in 2012.

CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian says he’s not surprised by the news of DACA recipients obtaining Green Cards and U.S. citizenship.

“This was bound to happen. Our analyst [Jessica Vaughan] warned about this as soon as President Obama announced DACA,” Krikorian told Breitbart Texas.

“We warned everyone this would happen,” Krikorian stated.

Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which has been vigorously pushing President Trump’s administration to end DACA as he promised, told Breitbart Texas that the program is now proven to have been “used to bootstrap amnesty on top of de facto amnesty.”

“It belies the Obama administration to claim that [DACA] was not about amnesty,” Mehlman said. “They supplied a backdoor for people to gain citizenship who otherwise would not have been eligible.”

Kirkorian said the data showing that more than 1,000 DACA recipients have obtained U.S. citizenship shows how quickly the advanced parole loophole was taken advantage of by illegal aliens.

“The fact that there are people that now have citizenship… that means some people took advantage of this immediately [after DACA was enacted],” Krikorian said. “They would have had to do this right away.”

Trump is expected to announce the future of the DACA amnesty program next week, as Breitbart News reported.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...gration-hawks/

Under US Immigration Law, any time you hand out a work permit with a social security number to an illegal alien, they are put on a "path". That's why we need a law that prohibits the issuance of any work permit by DHS, DOJ, President or anyone else in the executive branch that is not at minimum part of a visa or green card program approved by Congress.

Is this still happening under the Trump administration?

Originally Posted by MW

Is this still happening under the Trump administration?

Yes MW. Alipac has had news of the Advanced Parole loophole since 2015 (maybe before). The Trump administration has been giving legalization and a path to citizenship since the day he became President.

The illegal alien with DACA exits the country through Advanced Parole and then they come back in through a lawful, legal process. Green card and then citizenship can be attained when they follow the steps outlined by Homeland Security and USCIS.

I think if this fact about DACA being a backdoor to citizenship; that it was a premeditated tool to grant legalization and citizenship without notice, then there would be more outrage.

And DACA is not about children who know no other nation if they often return to their home countries for visits and include many who were teenagers upon illegal entry. It is about future citizen voters who democrats crave and who Republicans use for financial benefit.

The DACA illegal aliens are not demonstrating the best, they lack respect for immigration laws, they protest our nation and its citizens, they demonstrate in our streets, with foreign flags, they yell at us and at lawmakers, they shout "they are here to stay".

https://www.alipac.us/f12/eligible-v...5/#post1564437

https://www.alipac.us/f12/admin-revo...s-dapa-347903/

2015

https://www.alipac.us/f12/donald-tru...79/index3.html