House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Ill.) announced this week that a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty would not be included when Congress moves to pass a funding measure next week. A partial government shutdown could occur if Congress does not act on a spending bill by Dec. 22.
In response, Democrats and amnesty advocates turned out at rallies and turned up the pressure.
Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) unleashed a rhetorical flourish on the House floor and indicated he would not support a short-term spending measure which did not include the promise of a separate DREAM Act, which would encompass a far larger population of illegal immigrants than the 700,000 beneficiaries of President Obama’s DACA program.
While DACA had age limitations and time constraint requirements, other legislative fixes, such as the DREAM Act, do not. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that nearly 3.5 million illegal aliens may be immediately eligible for amnesty under these requirements.
FAIR’s recent fact sheet compares the legislative options to replace DACA.
Gutiérrez referred to a statistic used by amnesty advocates that 10,000 illegal aliens have lost their DACA protection since September when the Trump administration ended the program. He also cited a claim made by the pro-amnesty Center for American Progress (CAP) that 122 DACA recipients are losing their status.
However, a Daily Caller Foundation fact check found those numbers were false. In fact, only 5,900 had lost their status by November – more than 40 percent lower than the estimate being parroted by open border advocacy groups.
In addition to offering misleading facts, Democrats are misreading the public on this issue.
A December 4 Rasmussen poll found 61 percent of likely voters think it is more important to secure the border than to deal with Dream Act beneficiaries and 43 percent feel that securing the border is “very important.”
And a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll showed a mere 17 percent of Americans think replacing DACA is a priority. In fact, it came in at the bottom of the list of domestic issues tested by Harvard.
Despite overwhelming public support for prioritizing border security, open-border activists appear willing to risk funding for national defense and other programs to achieve their goals.
And they want the amnesty now.
“For us, it cannot go into next year. It’s just not possible. For us, any vote on an end-of-year spending bill [without a DACA fix]is a vote to deport youth,” Adrian Reyna, director of membership for United We Dream, said this week.
“Democrats in both the House and the Senate have made the promise to us and have made a public commitment to use the leverage in the budget negotiation to get the Dream Act,” added Reyna.
Others were less subtle in their demands.
“If Congress goes home for Christmas but leaves Dreamers out in the cold, the grassroots uprising will be scorching enough to boil snow,” Ben Wilker, Washington director of MoveOn.org, told The Washington Examiner. “Every Republican and every Democrat should be on notice: Your Dreamer deadline is in December, and there will be no extensions.”
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No DACA n no kind of AMNESTY!
NO ILLEGAL is a REFUGEE or LEGAL!!!
THESE ILLEGAL PEOPLE SNUCK IN ….. HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO BECOME CITIZENS N BE LEGAL. IT IS NO LONGER UP TO A SHYSTER LIKE OBOMB……THE DACA PLAN IS BEING USED N ABUSED! IT WASN’T MEANT TO LAST FOREVER N I DON’T EVEN KNOW IT’S REAL PURPOSE…..ONLY OBOMB KNOWS N IT’S BEEN MADE KNOWN IT’S NOT LEGAL…SOME PLAN OF OBOMB……THESE DACA’S
SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO COME IN ILLEGALLY N GET FREE ANYTHING……MANY GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS WORKED HARD TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR AMERICA……..NOT MEXICO!!!!! NOW THEY PROTEST N DEMAND WE KEEP IT WHICH IS NOT RESPECTFUL OR LEGAL…THOSE ARE AMERICAN RIGHTS, FOUGHT N PAID FOR WITH BLOOD, SWEAT N TEARS……NOT A GIFT TO “ILLEGALS”!!!!
NO DACA N NO AMNESTY OF ANY KIND. SEND THEM BACK WITH THEIR FREE EDUCATION N GOODIES MY TAXES PAID FOR …..TO HELP THEIR OWN COUNTRY……..GIVE BACK THE JOBS THEY WERE HANDED….
TO AMERICANS WHO DESERVE THIS RIGHT.
NO MORE DACA NOR ANY KIND OF AMNESTY……..
COME BACK LEGALLY N SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO COMPETE FOR JOBS LIKE WE HAVE TO! NO PROBLEM THERE!
This protest is just a thing of more to come. They’re illegal and will just get worse if they are allowed to stay. My kids were refused any help for college and I was a single mom making $8.25 an hour. They are handed more welfare money than I draw every month. Think about what kinda jobs our kids could have had if they were handed a education. They are on Medicaid or Chip program, but mine was taken out of my check every week. The mexican people that came legally resent this also. There kids can even get free breakfast at school. My neighbors both work day and night to raise their families, so they are penalized. .Now government wants to reward illegals for breaking our laws?
Why would we listen to the Dems, They don’t even understand the meaning of “Illegal immigrants” vs. “legal immigrants”. So listen up demtards, we will keep it simple so even you have a chance of understanding. Illegal immigrants equal bad, wrong, “We the people” don’t want. Legal immigrants equal good, right, “We the people” want. Now go sit in a corner and ponder that until the light bulb lights up.
No way!
No DACA , no amnesty until chain migration and birthright citizenship are eliminated. These dreamers are criminal no amnesty.
FED up with ANYONE WHO ISNT ON BOARD WITH TDUMP TO PUT AMERICANS FIRST. IM A CHRISTIAN, BUT THE BEHAVIOR OF THESE PEOPLE HAS ABSOLUTELY TURNED ME AGAINST THEM. IM FED UP!!!!
I truly do not care if the democrats shut down the government and if anyone suffers as a result, they will know who to blame. I do care about NO AMMESTY for DACA or any other foreign illegals. Their demanding radical behavior is a clear indication that they are not the kind of people we want or need in our country. This is not their country and they have no right to be here. They have a hell of a nerve demanding anything!
Let them shut down the government. That generally doesn’t work well for the one who does that. How dare you demand that illegal criminals come before American citizens?
You, Democrats, need to concrete on us seniors and Veterans before these illegals what in the hell wrong with you.