Report: DACA Amnesty May Trigger Flood of 4-6M Foreign Nationals, Not 800K
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Should President Trump follow through on a deal where nearly 800,000 illegal aliens are allowed to remain in the United States and eventually obtain U.S. citizenship, research shows it would create a flood of four to six million chain migrants coming to the United States.
Trump, who adamantly opposed the amnesty for illegal aliens protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, is now defending the recipients of the program, as well as leveraging a deal where the foreign nationals could seek a pathway to citizenship through legal status, as Breitbart News reported.
Today, Trump signaled to his supporters that he opposed any sort of chain migration that would follow a DACA amnesty deal, though the deals the White House and Congress are reviewing would all cause such an immigration crisis:
Latest data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows that 618,342 illegal aliens from Mexico currently have DACA status. If they were amnestied into the U.S., it would give them the opportunity to bring adult parents and relatives to the U.S.
“There will be chain migration. There always has been in amnesties,” Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News.
According to Princeton University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, for every one new Mexican immigrant to the U.S., an additional 6.38 Mexican nationals come to the U.S. through family-chain migration.
Based on the Princeton research, the 618, 342 illegal aliens from Mexico who are coveredby DACA would be able to bring upwards of four million additional relatives and family members to the U.S. in the years to come.
If the remaining estimated 180,000 DACA recipients brought in three family members each after being amnestied, it would result in additional 540,000 immigrants. Should the remaining 180,000 DACA recipients bring four family members each to the U.S., it would result in more than 700,000 new immigrants.
But if the remaining roughly 180,000 DACA recipients were to bring the same number of family members as Mexican DACA recipients are expected to bring to the U.S., it would result in nearly 1.2 million more legal family-based immigrants coming to the country.
On top of the legal chain migration that could occur following a DACA amnesty by Trump, there is also the potential for a massive border surge, like the one that occurred following former President Obama’s creation of the DACA program.
As the Migration Policy Institute has chronicled, previous border surges from amnesty programs have brought hundreds of thousands across the U.S.-Mexico border:
While the flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) has been climbing steadily since 2012, a dramatic surge has taken place in the last six months, with the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as the principal place of entry. The Border Patrol there has converted entire stations to house unaccompanied minors and families.According to the Border Patrol, apprehensions of unaccompanied children increased from 16,067 in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 24,481 in FY 2012 and 38,833 in FY 2013. During the first eight months of FY 2014, 47,017 such children were apprehended by the Border Patrol. If the influx continues apace—and it shows no signs of slowing—the administration predicts that by the end of the fiscal year on September 30, totals could reach 90,000.Ninety-eight percent of unaccompanied minors currently arriving at the border are from Honduras (28 percent), Mexico (25 percent), Guatemala (24 percent), and El Salvador (21 percent). This breakdown represents a significant shift: prior to 2012, more than 75 percent of UACs were from Mexico.
“There’s one thing for sure: it’s not going to be 800,000 illegal aliens amnestied,” Vaughan said, alluding to the fact that an amnesty would surge both legal and illegal immigration.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Immigration
Hawks Licking Their Wounds After Trump's About-Face
"At this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?" --
Ann Coulter tweet, 7:05 a.m., September 14, 2017.
"If reports true 100%. I blame R's. They caused this. They
wanted him to fail and now pushed him into arms of political suicide -- IF
TRUE." -- Sean Hannity tweet, 12:11 a.m., September 14, 2017.
"Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about
your mistakes! You (fouled) up... you trusted us! Hey, make the best of
it!" -- Eric "Otter" Stratton, "Animal House," 1978.
Before I continue, let me answer Ann Coulter's question: Me. I
don't want Trump impeached, at least not until he does something clearly
impeachable. Impeaching him for policies you don't like or even for political
malpractice would simply be a time-wasting tantrum. And I say that as a
consistent critic of Donald Trump, going back to his flirtation with running on
the Reform Party ticket in 2000.
That said, Coulter's reaction is understandable and even a
little praiseworthy. After all, she wrote a book -- a whole book! -- in 2016
called "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" But unlike a lot of
her compatriots in the Trump Army, Coulter was driven by a policy position, not
an infatuation. Or perhaps she was infatuated, but her commitment to the policy
was greater than her commitment to the man.
The policy in question: immigration. To wit, Coulter thinks
we've had enough of it. That goes for the children brought here by illegal
immigrants, commonly referred to as "Dreamers." President Obama
created a program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that
unconstitutionally (according to most conservatives, including the attorney general)
granted a kind of de facto amnesty to the Dreamers, giving them work permits
and legal residence.
On Wednesday night, Trump had dinner with the Democratic leaders
in the House and Senate, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer. These two famously
partisan Democrats came out of the dinner announcing that they had struck a
deal with the president to make DACA permanent without providing any funding
for Trump's cherished border wall.
Trump, witnessing the blowback, which included the new nickname
"Amnesty Don" in a headline at Breitbart News (which until recently
had been the Pravda of MAGAland), insisted in a tweet that no deal had yet been
made. But then he went on to sing the praises of DACA in a series of tweets,
making it clear to all that he wants the Dreamers to be legalized and the DACA
program made permanent.
In other words, he threw his biggest supporters under the Trump
train.
Now I should say, I think Trump is right on the policy. It would
be stupid and cruel to deport a bunch of people who came here as little kids
and have since assimilated into the only country they've ever known. A large
majority of Americans, including a majority of Trump voters, agree with Trump
(and Schumer and Pelosi) on the policy. A poll this week found that only 12
percent of registered voters want these people deported. Coulter and former
Trump adviser (and current Breitbart publisher) Steve Bannon speak for that 12
percent.
The majority of immigration hawks, however, considered DACA to
be the president's most valuable negotiating chip. He could have gotten funding
for the wall -- or perhaps E-Verify, or portions of Sen. Tom Cotton's
immigration reform legislation, the RAISE Act -- passed in exchange for making
DACA permanent. Instead, the author of "The Art of the Deal"
essentially tossed his best chip into the pot as if it were the ante.
This poses a crisis for two different kinds of Trump true
believers. The "nationalists" honestly believed he was one of them.
Meanwhile, the super-fans honestly believed Trump was the greatest negotiator
and strategist the world had ever seen. Both of these notions were delusions.
Oh, I'm sure Trump believes much of his America First talk, but that's talk.
What really matters to him is praise. It was only a matter of time before the
moth flew to glow of public opinion.
The sad thing is that both delusions were obvious from the
moment he descended his golden escalator at Trump Tower. It will be interesting
to see how the true believers follow Otter's advice and make the best of their
foul-up.
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