Tuesday, September 5, 2017

CONFIRMED: Trump is Going to Throw the Hard Working Kids Out (Maybe)


Attorney General Jeff Sessions has just announced the DACA program is being rescinded.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an American immigration policy founded by the Obama administration in June 2012. DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

To apply for DACA, illegal immigrants has to pay a $495 application fee and produce documents showing they meet certain requirements.

The program does not provide lawful status or a path to citizenship, nor does it provide eligibility for federal welfare or student aid. In other words, it is about allowing individuals to work in the United States. That is, it is about free exchange: immigrant is hired by someone who is willing to hire the immigrant.

It is the about the expansion of the standard of living for the U.S. economic region.

Trump is ending this.

-RW

UPDATE

Is Trump throwing a fake out to his immigrant-hating base? Consider:



Details via NBC:
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced Tuesday it would wind down DACA, putting in place a phased termination plan that would give Congress a six-month window to pass legislation that could eventually save the Obama-era program that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country.

Under the plan announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump administration will stop considering new applications for legal status dated after Tuesday, but will allow any DACA recipients with a permit set to expire before March 5, 2018, the opportunity to apply for a two-year renewal.

Sessions repeatedly referred to DACA as "unconstitutional" and said "the policy is vulnerable to...legal and constitutional challenges."

"It is my duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are enforced and that the constitutional order is upheld," Sessions said in explaining his rationale. "Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional executive overreach of authority by the executive branch."

The decision could affect as many as 800,000 Dreamers who have signed up for the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, since its 2012 inception. Immigrant rights advocates have said 200,000 more have sought DACA status since Trump became president.

UPDATE 2

Trump may be throwing a fake out to calm his immigrant-hating base.

The Intercept explains:
 Trump’s base, riled up by two years of campaign rhetoric and presidential statements against immigrants, is thirsty for more enforcement actions. But people close to Trump say he genuinely does not want to end the program. They said Trump is loath to punish someone who was brought to the U.S. as a young child with no say in the matter. That doesn’t mean, however, that Trump’s personal feelings will save the program.

For Dreamers and millions of their friends and family linked to their fates, it means that their fight is starting again, and much of the politics play to their advantage.

ONE MAJOR HINT that Trump may not follow through comes in the form the announcement’s delivery vehicle. On Monday, the administration said Sessions will make the announcement at 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. When have you ever known Trump to shy away from the cameras?

For signs of whether Trump actually intends to deport nearly a million Dreamers, pay far more attention to the six-month delay than the report that he has “decided to end” the program. During those six months, he’ll ask Congress to deal with the issue. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., has made the politics easy for Trump, having already come out against ending the program.

Either Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fail to act — giving Trump an opening to quietly extend the program again while blaming a do-nothing Congress — or Congress will pass something, and the program gets a blessing from the legislature. In both cases, the Dreamers could retain their protections.

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UPDATE 4

12 comments:

  1. Adios to the 800,000 welfare-statist DREAMERS.

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    1. Wouldn't the welfare statists be the nativists who are using government to kneecap their competition in the labor market?

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    2. Wouldn't that work as well to argue against having babies (i.e. more potential welfare-statists)? The ao-called dreamers have at least two good arms and a work permit. Newborn babies don't, the slackers.

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    3. I reject your premise. It's like saying corporations fighting piracy are using government to kneecap their competition in the distribution market.

      There exists a legal process for foreigners to work in the USA. These Deferred Action, socialist-in-training criminals have got to go now. Democrats and Chamber of Commerce crony Republicans are chomping at the bit to afford these progressives the privilege of legal plunder.

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    4. @Francisco, It would be wonderful if all welfare-statists and their demon spawn would self-deport. The only problem is that no other country in the world would accept them unless they go through the proper immigration process.

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    5. It's extremely hard to take someone's gripes about "welfare" seriously when they have no problem rolling over and letting the state dictate to them whom they're allowed to employ.

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    6. Nativist statists, like Pimento, are a graver threat to prosperity and industry than people coming from abroad to work.

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    7. You people worship at the altar of economism. It's all about low wage employment for you. As far as that goes I don't see any of you whiners fighting to kill the minimum age restrictions for employment. Let the 13 year olds work!

      Pimento and Murray Rothbard: against illegal immigration, bad for libertarianism. https://mises.org/library/uk-nation-consent

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    8. Re: Stuffed Pimento,

      ─ There exists a legal process for foreigners to work in the USA. ─

      The fact that there's a big black market of labor belies the notion that such a process is market-friendly.

      ─ These Deferred Action, socialist-in-training criminals have got to go now. ─

      Defaming them does not confer your point any validity. You can't say that they're "socialists-in-training" to then argue against their stay without, for the sake of consistency and so you don't look like a hypocrite, argue in favor of mass sterilization so that people don't have their own "socialists-in-training" which you would call "babies".

      ─ Democrats and Chamber of Commerce crony Republicans are chomping at the bit to afford these progressives the privilege of legal plunder. ─

      Oh, please. Your class warfare schtick is getting old and tired.

      ─ It would be wonderful if all welfare-statists and their demon spawn would self-deport. ─

      And of course, they won't. Just like people didn't become teetotalers right after Prohibition was ratified. imagine that... A planet where laws that go against market forces are not obeyed?

      But keep dreaming. Trunpistas are keen on magical thinking. That's why they keep using the same bromide "Deez Iz A Nation of Laws!" as if that mattered.

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    9. Pimento doesn't see libertarians opposing minimum wage? Are his eyes closed? Also very queer that he would put any stock into whether the state classifies a worker as "illegal."

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  2. Clearly anyone who believes that a massive influx of 3rd worlders will keep this country a 1st world nation are the biggest threat right now.

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    1. So far the greatest threat comes from those who ignore basic economic law.

      That means YOU.

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