Illegal aliens who crossed the border as children don’t have to worry about being sent home, President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a Friday interview.
Illegals enrolled in the President Barack Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” DACA program can “rest easy,” Trump said, because “this is a case of heart.”
Federal enforcement agencies are “not [going] after the ‘dreamers,’ we are after the criminals,” he said, using the Democrats’ ‘dreamer’ euphemism for young illegal immigrants. “That is our policy,” he added.
The Friday comments confirm Trump’s reversal of his 2016 campaign promise to stop the DACA quasi-amnesty created by Obama during his 2012 reelection campaign. He created the program in 2012 by telling his immigration enforcement officers to provide young illegals with free work permits instead of repatriation orders. The program has allowed at least 770,000 illegal immigrants to find jobs in major U.S. cities, even though tens of millions of Americans outside the cities are unemployed or have given up trying to find work.
Since his inauguration, Trump’s deputies at the Department of Homeland Security have awarded new work permits to illegals who claim they arrived before age 16, despite Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” slogan.
Trump’s support for the DACA program is one of his biggest “flip-flops,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “During the campaign, now-President Trump had said he was going to end that on day one because it’s an unconstitutional action by the president,” Krikorian told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday. Krikorian continued:
And of course he’s right, it’s illegal. And they’ve done nothing to it. They’ve done absolutely nothing.”
Trump’s post-inauguration turnabout on DACA means that pro-American reformers who want to reduce the impact of illegal-alien workers in the job market will need to bring a lawsuit arguing that the federal government illegally awarded work permits to illegal immigrants, say advocates.
Trump’s refusal to reverse or even stop the DACA program is also a bad sign for future immigration reforms, says Krikorian. That’s because he could stop the program and then use the resulting public outcry to pressure Democrats to establish pro-Americans immigration policies. Those policies could include a mandatory requirement that employers check that job applicants are legal residents in the United States.
In August 2016, Obama’s chief economist said the federal is imposing the economic pain of five simultaneous recessions on less-educated Americans, thereby pushing millions of working-age men off jobs, out of the workforce, and into poverty.
Roughly 10 percent of American “prime age” men, or 7 million men aged 25 to 54, have dropped out of the nation’s workforce of 150 million. They are not trying to get jobs, and are not participating in the nation’s labor force.
“This [dropout] is caused by policies and institutions, not by technology,” admitted Jason Furman, an economist who chaired the president’s Council of Economic Advisors. “We shouldn’t accept it as inevitable,” he told a Brookings Institute expert, Dave Wessel on August 10. The primary reason for reduced employment is that “the amount [of money] that employers would want to hire them for some reason has gone down,” he said.
In February, Trump told that the AP that “DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me … It’s one of the most difficult subjects I have because you have these incredible kids.”
#1: rlk To: cranky (#0)
It's also a case of facilitating foreign invasion.
rlk posted on 2017-04-22 21:21:59 Reply Private Reply
#2: sneakypete To: rlk (#1)
As well as a case of "You can't un-ring a bell".
No matter how much I hate to see people profit from committing a crime,the human as well as the political reality is that this has been accepted for such a long time now that the political price to upset it is too high of a price to pay.
Instead of expending all his political capital on trying to reverse what has already been accepted as the right thing to do,he needs to focus on creating new laws to make sure this doesn't happen with another generation of illegals. That CAN be done because there won't be any children shown crying on tv about being separated from their parents who are getting deported.
One thing is for certain,we can't do anything about the ones already here who ARE Americans in everything but birth states,but we can and we MUST do everything we can do to make sure this isn't repeated.
sneakypete posted on 2017-04-23 03:21:19 Reply Private Reply
#3: misterwhite To: cranky (#0)
The thinking behind this is that they were brought here (illegally) by their parents through no fault of their own and they shouldn't be punished.
Fine. But that doesn't mean they should be rewarded with a work permit or given any free government benefits such as education, healthcare or welfare. And we're still free to deport their parents.
Under those conditions, sure, let them stay if they want.
misterwhite posted on 2017-04-23 09:41:39 Reply Private Reply
#4: misterwhite To: cranky (#0)
Bullshit. He always said they wouldn't be a priority and would be "treated with heart".
misterwhite posted on 2017-04-23 10:04:20 Reply Private Reply
#5: cranky To: misterwhite (#4)
So you say.
But i watched his interview with chuck todd on meet the press back in 2015.
So i know better.
cranky posted on 2017-04-23 11:16:52 Reply Private Reply
#6: cranky To: sneakypete (#2)
I disagree.
I agreed with trump when said "keep the families together, but they have to go, we'll work with them but they have to go, we will do it and we will expedite it so people can come back in but they have to go. either we have a country or we don't...'
They have to go, imho.
cranky posted on 2017-04-23 11:22:49 Reply Private Reply
#7: misterwhite To: cranky (#5)
From the transcript of the interview:
CHUCK TODD: DACA?
DONALD TRUMP:We have to make a whole new set of standards. And when people come in, they have to come in legally--
Keep in mind that, at the time of that interview, Obama was trying to expand the DREAM Act by executive order, extending it to the parents of those children. (The USSC struck it down in 2016). So Trump could have been referring to getting rid of the expanded executive order.
misterwhite posted on 2017-04-23 11:36:35 Reply Private Reply
#8: Hondo68 To: cranky, sneakypete, aid and confort to invading enemy, treason, *Border Invasion* (#6)
The best way to keep the families together is to deport DACA and other "children" along with their parents. They can then be reunited with their other relatives in their home countries. This is family reunification done right, where the dream students can work to fix problems in their homeland. Buena fortuna (good luck)!
Trump is a treasonous flip-flopping Reconquista liar, for supporting the invasion of the USA. Impeach, try, hang!
Hondo68 posted on 2017-04-23 14:22:01 Reply Private Reply
#9: sneakypete To: cranky (#6)
I agree that would be the ideal,and NO deal should be approved until and unless the Dims agree to drop Instant Citizenship to any baby born here,regardless of if they are here legally or illegally.
sneakypete posted on 2017-04-23 17:16:55 Reply Private Reply
#10: Hank Rearden To: cranky (#0)
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-04-23 19:18:10 Reply Private Reply
#11: cranky To: Hank Rearden (#10)
Only if crime pays.
cranky posted on 2017-04-23 19:41:04 Reply Private Reply
#12: Stoner To: rlk (#1)
Wonder how many Trump supporters are thinking " WE HAVE BEEN HAD " ?
Stoner posted on 2017-04-25 09:01:09 Reply Private Reply
#13: rlk To: Stoner (#12)
Given the IQ of the average American voter, They are not wondering anything.
rlk posted on 2017-04-25 14:36:22 Reply Private Reply
#14: Stoner To: rlk (#13)
Well, I agree that the IQ of the average voter is quite low. But I would have to believe there are some that are thinking they have been had.
Stoner posted on 2017-04-25 15:37:19 Reply Private Reply