DREAM Act amnesty would have huge impact on U.S.

Article date: 
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Article category: 
National Issues
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Any amnesty encourages further illegal immigration. 

Besides that, the pending DACA amnesty would have an enormous, permanent impact on the U.S. through greatly increased population and expenses for benefits, as explained here:

Excerpt from Amnesty Chain Migration Would Exceed Four Years of U.S. Births, by John Binder, Breitbart.com, December 15, 2017

… As House and Senate Republicans, Democrats, the big business lobby, the cheap labor industry, and the open borders lobby have teamed up to push an amnesty for potentially millions of illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the impact the move would have on Americans would be likely unprecedented.

Under the current legal immigration system, immigrants who are given a pathway to U.S. citizenship are eventually allowed to bring extended family members, children, their parents, siblings, and extended family members to the country. This process, which makes up more than 70 percent of the current legal immigration, is what’s known as “chain migration.” 

Research by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) reveals that under a DACA amnesty deal, between about 800,000 and 3.5 million illegal aliens could be eligible for legalization to permanently remain in the U.S. Of those, MPI notes that 1.5 million of the estimated 3.5 million would be allowed to obtain U.S. citizenship.

According to Princeton University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, newly naturalized Mexican immigrants in the U.S. bring an average of six foreign relatives with them. Therefore, should all 1.5 million amnestied illegal aliens bring six relatives each to the U.S., that would constitute a total chain migration of nine million new foreign nationals entering the U.S. …   [Read the entire article here.]

FURTHERMORE, fiscal costs for a DACA amnesty would add huge amounts to government debt.  See report on official estimates  here.

Do we owe DACA registrants anything?  They were never promised permanent legal status by President Obama, and he did not have the authority to grant it.