There was no promise to DACA recipients

 
Democrats and allies rail against “breaking a promise” to DACA recipients who, they say, were led to believe they’d be shielded from deportation indefinitely, allowed to work and benefit from all public services.  Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle argues at length how “unfair” it is to “pull the rug out from under them.”
 
But Pres. Obama said repeatedly that he had no Constitutional authority to provide an amnesty, and he made plain that DACA was a temporary program – subject to change or termination by future Administrations.
 
Dreamers are portrayed in the media sympathetically, with glowing reports about the valedictorians and other achievers.  We’re not supposed to notice the criminals  among them.  However, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that just this year, 622 have had their deferred action status pulled due to criminal activity, a 30% surge over previous years.
 
Any illegal alien is eligible for DACA if when illegally entering the U.S., he/she was under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012, so the eligibility group consists mainly of adults, not children.
 
How can the date of entry be proven without expensive investigation?  So, applications were accepted without proper verification or interviews.  There likely is widespread fraud.
 
Most people don’t realize the consequences of mass amnesties.  Each immigrant can petition to bring in extended family members, and each one of those can then petition to bring in his or her family members in an endless chain.  While Oregon and other states are struggling to keep up with population growth’s effects, we should not be adding millions more people through overly generous immigration policies.
 
PolitiFact erred in claiming that amnesty for DACA recipients would not result in a huge wave of extended family immigrants, because that estimate was based on the number of persons currently enrolled in DACA.  However, the proposal is to amnesty all who are DACA-eligible, a much larger number, estimated to be 1.76 million.  Statistics show that each new immigrant in recent years has sponsored an average of 3.45 additional immigrants.  In the most recent five-year cohort of immigrants studied (1996-2000), each new Mexican immigrant sponsored 6.38 additional legal immigrants.
 
The parents of DACA “children” brought them here illegally; the entire family illegally here should be deported together, thus not “tearing families apart.”  
 
Public discussion of this amnesty has already triggered an increase in illegal border crossings. 
 
Illegal immigration enables employers to get cheap, exploitable labor, reducing job opportunities for citizens and depressing their wages, leading to greater need for financial assistance to poor families, homelessness and desperation among citizens.  Nearly one-in-four Americans of working-age does not have a job, according to government data.
 
The worst thing to do in the present situation is to pass yet another amnesty for illegal aliens.  Rolling amnesties over recent decades have undermined respect for immigration law and all law generally.  Americans’ historic respect for law is what enabled the U.S. to achieve the prosperity, cohesion, and stability that set us apart from many other countries.
 
The DACA “youths,” now many in their 30’s, should return to the countries where they are citizens and help those countries develop acceptable living conditions.