What a shame. Let’s start deporting them all now
(ABC News) Six months ago, when he announced he was ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Donald Trump picked March 5 as the deadline for Congress to work out a solution to prevent DACA recipients from facing deportation.
But the president’s plans were thwarted by multiple court challenges, rendering Monday’s deadline all but meaningless. Now, as Congress and the Dreamers await a resolution in the courts, lawmakers have paused their legislative efforts and some 700,000 DACA recipients have been plunged into a constant state of uncertainty.
Two separate federal court injunctions have effectively halted the president’s rescission of the DACA program with the judges ordering the Department of Justice to maintain the current program as it was before Trump’s announcement last September.
In January, a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction that prompted U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin taking DACA renewal applications again.
Since then, DACA policy for renewals has been operating on the Obama-era terms that were in place before it was rescinded.
Realistically, Trump can just do what Obama did numerous times: ignore the courts, especially since federal law takes precedence over an executive order that even Obama said was un-lawful and un-Constitutional. And he can also let the clock run out. No new applications are being accepted for DACA.
Of course, we need a sob story with this (the annoying autoplay video with the story also has a sob story)
While the DACA cases make their way through courts on both coasts, young people affected by the policy, like Sarahi Aguilera, are living in limbo.
Aguilera was born in Camargo, a city in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She arrived in the United States at the tender age of six as an undocumented immigrant. She is a DACA recipient.
“For most of us, DACA was the only opportunity we had to come out of the shadows and show everyone what we are capable of doing, regardless of the legal status in which we stand in,†Aguilera said in a testimonial provided by the Center for Popular Democracy to ABC News.
Hey, it’s easy to come out of the shadows. Go home with the parents that brought you in violation of our immigration laws.
Anyhow, as long as Democrats and other illegal alien supporters demand a “clean” DACA bill nothing will get done. If they want some sort of legal status for Dreamers, they are going to have to give up a lot to get it.
(NBC News) DACA recipient Javier Gamboa sees this year’s midterm elections as crucial to electing officials as a willing to find a solution for Dreamers and immigrants with no legal status.
As the director of Hispanic media for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, his job is to get Democrats elected to the House. Although the focus of the party he’s working for is centered on becoming the majority, the ambition also is personal.
“We are going to hit the deadline and nothing has been done and nothing has been passed to provide a solution for DACA,†Gamboa said. “We belong in this country and it is a fight to remain in this country. It is a fight for my future.â€
No, you don’t belong in this country. If you want to stay, you should ask nicely. But, if you think Democrats will do anything, you’re going to be disappointed. They do not want a fix for this: they want to whip up their voters to get out and vote. If the problem is solved, that hurts them at the ballot box. They could have done something in 2009, when Republicans couldn’t stop them. They didn’t even consider it.
