Any legal pathway allowing illegal aliens to permanently remain in the United States, and eventually obtain American citizenship, is amnesty, Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan says.
Last week, President Trump told Telemundo his administration is working on a plan to give a “road to citizenship” for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“I’m going to be doing an immigration bill,” Trump said. “One of the aspects of the bill that you will be very happy with, and that a lot of people will be, including me and a lot of Republicans, by the way, will be DACA. It gives them a road to citizenship.”
White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told Breitbart News that Trump “is willing” to work with Congress to provide citizenship for DACA illegal aliens but claimed the plan would “not include amnesty.”
Over the weekend, Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp said the president would “provide support” to DACA illegal aliens. Schlapp confirmed her work on a number of “legalization” plans for DACA illegal aliens while working in the administration.
“When I was at the White House, we worked on several immigration proposals trying to get Democrats to come on board that would have included legalization for DACA recipients,” Schlapp said.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Vaughan said any plan providing legal status, including citizenship, to illegal aliens is amnesty.
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Vaughn said:
I do take issue with the White House spokesperson saying ‘It’s not an amnesty.’ Vaughan said. “Of course it’s an amnesty. Everybody knows it’s an amnesty. That’s the only way out of this for people with DACA. I don’t know why they feel like they have to keep pretending that it is not.”
“Any form of legal status for people who are here illegally, if they get a green card and are on the path to citizenship, that’s an amnesty,” Vaughan said. “Let’s just call it what it is if you’re going to do it.”
As Breitbart News has reported, a DACA amnesty would likely drive a flow of what is known as “chain migration” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S.
Newly naturalized citizens from Mexico, according to Princeton University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, bring on average about six foreign relatives each to the U.S.
Should all 800,000 DACA illegal aliens sponsor six foreign relatives to come to the country, that would equate to a chain migration flow of nearly five million foreign nationals — a foreign population twice the size of Chicago, Illinois.
“A lot of the DACA family members are already here,” Vaughan said. “I think that with an amnesty, a lot of them will get status through chain migration if our system isn’t changed, specifically the unlimited category of parents.”
A DACA amnesty would put more citizen children of illegal aliens — commonly referred to as “anchor babies” — on federal welfare, as Breitbart News reported, while American taxpayers would be left potentially with a $26 billion bill.
Additionally, about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
At the southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to trigger a border surge that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring through the border. Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the program have been kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or gang members.
“There are more people with DACA who have criminal records than there are who are doctors,” Vaughan said.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
The former Acting Secretary for President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admits that she helped weaken the legal case for the administration’s rescission of former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In September 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama’s DACA program that has allowed nearly 800,000 illegal aliens to remain in the U.S.
At the time, then-Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke — a former DHS official under former President George W. Bush — signed the inter-agency memo to end DACA but now admits she purposefully helped weaken its legal standing by not putting any policy reasons for the program’s rescission.
Duke said she wanted Congress to pass a DACA amnesty to make sure the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the program could permanently remain in the U.S.
The New York Times reported in Duke’s first interview since leaving DHS:
Ms. Duke said she did not include policy reasons in the memo because she did not agree with the ideas being pushed by Mr. Miller and Mr. Sessions: that DACA amounted to an undeserved amnesty and that it would encourage new waves of illegal immigration. [Emphasis added]
She said she still agreed that DACA “isn’t a legal program,” but hoped that Republicans and Democrats in Congress would eventually find a way to allow the undocumented immigrants covered by the program to live and work permanently in the United States. [Emphasis added]
Duke’s refusal to include specific policy reasons for ending DACA was vital to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision that demanded the Trump administration refile paperwork to end the program, as Breitbart News’s Joel Pollack reported at the time:
In a complex, 5-4 opinion, in which Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s four liberal justices, the majority held that the administration had failed to offer sufficient reasons for rescinding the policy, and had failed to provide enough consideration about what would happen to the 700,000 people who had registered for the DACA program. [Emphasis added]
Likewise, Duke revealed in the Times interview that she will not yet commit to voting for Trump for a second term against Democrat Joe Biden.
“That’s a really hard question,” Duke told the Times when asked if she would vote for Trump in November. “But given the choices, I don’t know yet.”
Duke became Acting DHS Secretary after General John Kelly left the agency as chief to join Trump in the White House as the president’s chief of staff.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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