Why Trump must end DACA
The rule of law is all about deterrence. So when we fail to follow it, we squander its deterring effects...
Ending DACA and turning off the amnesty-magnet is now more important than ever.
Obama created DACA in reaction to Congress’s “gridlock” over the DREAM Act, an amnesty bill for illegal aliens under 30 rejected no less than 24 times since 2001.
DACA replicated the main elements and criteria of the insipidly titled act, from its sentimental focus on “children” to the requirement that applicants have a GED.
While the DREAM Act granted “legal status” or permanent legalization, DACA purports to offer “legal presence”, or “temporary” legalization. The distinction’s without a difference...
When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. Following Obama’s DACA announcement... the thousand or so apprehensions of unaccompanied juveniles we’d previously been seeing every year surged into the tens of thousands...
Now, thanks to DACA, taxpayers spend hundreds of millions annually to reunite the (mostly) uneducated minors with their (mostly) illegal alien parents in the U.S...
... Average wages in that country [Mexico] are a mere 10 percent of American levels, a gap that’s likely set to jump. Why? Mexico’s rapidly dwindling Cantarell oil field, traditionally the source of 30 percent of the country’s total government expenditures...
But with production declining from 2.5 million to 400,000 barrels per day over the last decade or so, Mexico’s biggest GDP-contributor is no longer oil exports, but US-based remittances...
... open-borders activists simply call for more amnesty and more illegal alien “rights.” Their lack of systematic analysis is stupefying.
While “protecting” illegal aliens from the consequences of breaking the law may make them feel good and virtuous, if they get their way on DACA the incentives for further law-breaking at our border will only increase. Economists call this the “moral hazard” problem...
... we need to ensure against amnesty and the moral hazard it creates, now more than ever.
Dale Wilcox is executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative and predatory effects of unlawful immigration and ungoverned legal immigration.
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