Posted on 09/06/2017 5:53:42 AM PDT by Rockitz
President Trump called on Congress to “legalize” DACA late Tuesday, just hours after his administration announced the repeal of the amnesty for children brought to the country illegally — promising that he will “revisit this issue” if Congress does not turn DACA into legislation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the repeal of the Obama era executive order — known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — both on constitutional grounds and also on principle.
“The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of unaccompanied minors on the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences,” Sessions said. “It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens.”
The move saw significant opposition from Democrats and voices in the media, while even some Republicans who formerly opposed DACA called for Congress to act to resolve the issue with legislation.
The rollback includes a six-month delay so as to allow Congress to act if it so chose. The White House had expressed hope that the issue could be included as part of a broader immigration legislation package, with Trump tweeting that he hoped to work with Democrats and Republicans for a reform “that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st.”
But by late Tuesday, Trump appeared to have turned into a paper tiger on the key campaign promise to get rid of DACA, saying he would “revisit this issue” if Congress did not “legalize DACA.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Here we go. The Negotiator-in-Chief just took all future-deal leverage for himself, fairly, and while we watched. https://t.co/AmNK35syDD— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 6, 2017
Check out post 361, it’s interesting.
“Take away from the illegal aliens all subsidies, income, and legal shielding by targeting the agencies, companies, and bureaus that provide them. They will then self-deport”
That is the crux of the problem. Milton Friedman has some excellent discussions on youtube of why immigration was never a problem until the above incentives were institutionalized. Prior to that, we attracted intelligent hardworking immigrants whose primary motivation was a Free Republic.
What Republicans refuse to acknowledge is that they are creating a permanent democrat majority who will always vote for more free stuff. We see that now and it is only going to get worse.
Just as in Obamacare-light proposals, Republicans will want to put “forgiveness” first in any DACA legislation, with measures to enforce borders and limit government dependancy in phases 2,3,4....
Reagan made a huge mistake putting the cart before the horse in signing the 1986 immigration bill that relied on enforcement later.
I hope President Trump’s emotions don’t override logic, reason and history when it comes time to sign a DACA bill.
As Scott Shoffner tweets, “I think there’s a lot of wishful thinking and reading things into this that aren’t really there.”
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/905529866862202880
He put congress on notice to put up or shut up....that he wasn’t going to act as a dictator and just “renew” executive orders. Even when Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, it led to the 13th and 14th amendments! Congress has to start acting like congress and stop hiding behind the skirts of the executive and judicial branches!
The same could be said for myself.
Apparently, the President agrees with this, as long as he call call his concession a “victory”! Talk about demoralizing his base!
The problem is that part of his base wants these illegals gone, the other part wants their labor—cheap, or skilled and learned by using the US education system. Thus, why kick out people we paid to educate who are now doing useful jobs and by DACA rules paying Social Security.
What is being forgotten in this meme is that regardless of educated or unschooled (not stupid, but trainable for specific tasks, like slaves) is that they dilute the labor market to undercut the value-in-use of native-born children and citizens.
As a PhD student, post-doc researcher, and many years as corporate scientist, I saw that universities and technical giants advantage themselves by bringing in foreign students who will work for slave-labor wages on faculty-supervised projects and grants under such living and working conditions as to make pursuing a technical higher education unattractive to home-grown talent.
Corporations prolong the stay of these aliens by hiring them to displace scientists and engineers who had previously built the businesses, and expected to benefit from the investment of their time and talents in creating new product concepts, only to find themselves discarded after they have taught their hard-won skills to their cheap foreign replacements.
Thus the corporations wind up with the patents and wealth gained from them, with the inventors and application specialists left on the outside without the fruits of their labors accruing to themselves and their children. Who can rejoice in this kind of atmosphere? Is this the kind of "capitalism" that benefits the general population? Or in the end, only the "one-percenters"?
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