The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to help illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as children is in the news again. The program was created in 2012 by the Obama administration. Barack Obama grew tired of waiting for Congress to act, so he created the illegal program with an executive order. The DACA program protects more than 649,000 illegal aliens from deportation.
President Donald Trump used an
executive order to end the DACA program, but he gave Congress a certain length
of time to act. Instead of legislating laws to deal with the problem, Congress
was caught up in the Russia collusion and Ukraine corruption cases. Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi was more interested in removing Trump from office than doing
her job, so no action was taken by Congress.
Instead, the Trump administration was
taken to court for its executive order. The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided
5-4 against the president. The court ruled that the president had the authority
to rescind DACA, but the justices did not think the Trump administration gave
sufficient reason for doing it. Dissenting justices argued that the program was
illegal and should be ended, but that view did not have enough votes.
Mike Howell and Lora Ries of The
Heritage Foundation posted an article in The Daily Signal stating that
the Trump administration “should refuse to renew amnesty for any DACA
beneficiaries as their deferral periods end.” However, the administration extended
amnesty deportations for at least another year while the problem receives more
study. The authors correctly emphasized that “History has proven that promises
of amnesty beget more illegal immigration,” and said that the Tuesday
announcement by the White House “will result in just that.”
The authors said that it may be difficult
for the administration to give “sufficient reason” that activists on the
Supreme Court would accept, no matter how much time is given to study the
problem. “Setting legal strategy aside, granting a one-year extension of DACA
is extending amnesty. Amnesty is the forgiveness of consequences for breaking immigration
law.”
Ending DACA is one of Trump’s 2016 campaign
promises that he has yet to fulfill. Instead of ending the illegal program, the
administration is now extending it. The authors do not agree with the president’s
use of executive orders on immigration because it might lessen conservative
support. They say that the president should “keep his promise to end the unconstitutional
practice of granting birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.”
He should also “enact policies that end the practices of sanctuary cities that
don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.” These policies should
include actions to “increase interior enforcement of immigration law, and hold
accountable colleges and universities that unlawfully grant in-state tuition to
illegal aliens.”
The impeachment trial, COVID-19 pandemic,
and the riots have distracted many people from the illegal immigration problem.
We cannot adequately deal with the millions of illegal aliens currently in our
nation until we secure our borders. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan
granted amnesty to thousands of illegal aliens with the problem that the
borders would be secured. Now we have millions more illegal aliens, and the
border are still not secured. If we grant amnesty again, we will be inundated
with more illegal aliens!
Re-electing Donald Trump is our best hope
to ever get the illegal immigrant problem under control along with ending the
corruption in Washington, D.C. Yet, there are people who hate Donald Trump so
badly that they will not vote for what is best for the nation. Putting
Democrats in control of the government may mean the end of the United States as
we know it. If you do not believe me, just look at what is happening in the
cities and states that are controlled by Democrats. Do you like what you see in
Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, California, and every other place
governed for any length of time by Democrats? If you vote against Trump, you
are voting for that type of leadership!
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