Trump gives DACA amnesty to 192 illegals a day
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
WASHINGTON SECRETS
Group: Trump gives amnesty to 192 illegals a day
Despite a campaign promise to end an Obama-era program granting freedom to illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before age 16, President Trump has granted "amnesty" to about 192 a day, or nearly 4,000, according to a group opposed to illegal immigration.
Instead of killing the program dubbed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which turns five today, Trump's team has focused on other immigration issues. He is to decide on its fate next month.
The program also faces a huge legal hurdle in a lawsuit filed by Texas.
The Center for Immigration Studies, using government data, said that the administration is adding another 192 illegals a day to the nearly 800,000 already granted access to work permits, Social Security numbers, driver's licenses, and government welfare programs.
"The anti-borders folks will be demonstrating in front of the White House at 11:30 this morning to ‘defend DACA,' even though President Trump chose not to end the program on ‘day one,' as he'd pledged. In fact, not only have renewals continued since January 20, but I estimate that Trump is amnestying 192 additional illegal aliens each day," according to Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
"It is time to end DACA," he blogged.
He argued that the administration should not wait for the Texas case against DACA to move through the courts.
Laying out a process to end it, he wrote, "the way to proceed would be to phase out DACA and at the same time propose a legislative compromise. Announce that DACA renewals will only be processed until December 31, after which they will start expiring. (t would take two years for all of them to lapse. That would light a fire under Congress to pass a package upgrading the DACAs from their lawless Obama amnesty to a genuine lawful one, in exchange for the RAISE Act, the Davis-Oliver Act, and mandatory E-Verify. The Democrats will balk at first, but the clock will be ticking."
Proponents of DACA are loud and are rallying in Washington Tuesday for the program. They are led by CASA, an Hispanic pro-immigrant group.
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