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Captain Obvious
09-29-2017, 05:40 PM
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/29/554073453/democrats-try-to-force-dream-act-vote-as-gop-rolls-out-conservative-daca-fix


Republicans who might have been leery of supporting the bipartisan Dream Act got a more conservative-friendly option this week in the form of a new bill dubbed the SUCCEED Act (https://www.tillis.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6a79e1da-2671-427a-9d1c-b3b16376a40c/the-succeed-act-two-pager.pdf) (Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education and Defending our nation).
"This, I believe, is a fair and orderly method for providing a permanent solution for the DACA children," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters Monday during a Capitol Hill news conference.
Tillis unveiled the legislation along with co-authors Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
The SUCCEED Act is the latest proposal floated by lawmakers in the weeks since President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull the plug on the Obama-era DACA policy (http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/546423550/trump-signals-end-to-daca-calls-on-congress-to-act) (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).

KathyS
09-29-2017, 07:57 PM
They continue to refer to DACA recipients as "children" in an attempt to garner additional sympathy. It gets old....

The Xl
09-29-2017, 07:59 PM
I don't like the dems underhanded tactics, but something needs to be done about the situation, and indiscriminate deportation of kids and adults who have been here since they were kids isn't morally or logistically feasible.

waltky
12-20-2017, 03:38 AM
DACA kids caught in limbo...
:huh:
Young Immigrants' Fate Unclear as Congress Delays DACA Fix
December 19, 2017 — Laura Lopez is a Mexican immigrant living in Florida who has been racing against time to avoid deportation.


Lopez said she arrived at the post office just after the cutoff time and missed the deadline set by President Donald Trump to renew her paperwork for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that helps young immigrants brought into the country illegally. Lopez, 30, blamed the chaos of Hurricane Irma while juggling a move from Miami to Daytona Beach as reasons why she missed the cutoff.


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Ernesto Delgado, center, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, fills out his renewal application during the immigration ministry at Lincoln Methodist Church in Chicago

As a result, her status as a recipient of DACA ends Friday. Her driver's license, car insurance and housing lease are all in jeopardy once the program goes away for her. "Everywhere I go, everything and everyone reminds me I have an expiration date" said Lopez, who is still trying to show proof that she attempted to send her renewal package the day before the October 5 deadline. "The government is playing with the lives of families."

Lopez is one of thousands of immigrants who are losing their protection from deportation under the administrative program established by President Barack Obama in 2012, including many who missed the deadline or saw their applications lost in the mail. The immigrants also are being provided a glimpse of what will happen if Congress is unable to come up with a permanent replacement. Thousands more will start seeing their protections end in March. Here are some questions and answers about the process:

Why the rush?

In theory, DACA recipients should be protected until March. The government does not turn over information about DACA recipients to deportation agents unless they are targeted for a criminal investigation. That means immigrants with expiring paperwork won't be automatically deported, but they can be if they get stopped by police or arrested on criminal charges.


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Judy Weatherly, a supporter of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, holds up a sign during a protest outside the Federal Building in San Francisco

Officials say there are no plans to change how the government handles personal information of applicants. However, Francis Cissna, USCIS director, said "the guidance has always said that that policy could change. It has always said that; it still says that."

Where does Congress stand? (https://www.voanews.com/a/young-immigrants-fate-unclear-congress-delays-daca-fix/4171234.html)

waltky
12-21-2017, 03:50 AM
The Donald gonna fix DACA...
:cool2:
Senators, White House Working on DACA Deal
December 20, 2017 | WASHINGTON — White House staff members met with a group of senators Tuesday to talk about the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has benefited hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths.


The result of the private meeting, first reported by Politico, was a pledge by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to present a list of border security and immigration policy changes to be included in any legislative fix to help DACA recipients. Sources told Politico that Kelly could return with a new list of demands within days. According to people who attended the meeting, the new plan may come in January, and it would allow nearly 800,000 DACA immigrants, who were brought illegally to the United States as minors, to continue to work and study in the country. Politico said a half-dozen senators have been working to come up with a bipartisan solution on DACA. They were prompted by President Donald Trump's announcement in September that the DACA program would end. It is set to expire March 5, and work permits that have not been renewed will begin to be phased out at that time.



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Maro Park, left, of Fairfax, Virginia, holds a sign saying "Congress Must Act Now," next to Paola Marquez and LaRia Land, both of Silver Spring, Maryland, as they stand by a banner of the Lady of Guadalupe, during a march with others in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, on Capitol Hill



Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona said senators could not reach an agreement until they knew what the Trump administration was inclined to sign. "We couldn't finish this product, this bill, until we knew where the administration was. ... And that's why this meeting was so important," Flake told Politico after the meeting with Kelly. Also on Wednesday, Trump renewed his immigration priorities. At a Cabinet meeting, the president vowed to end the diversity visa program, known as the the green card lottery, and cut family-based immigration, which critics call chain migration. He also called on Congress to fund his proposed border wall. "When we take people that are lottery — [other countries] are not putting their best people in the lottery. It's common sense. … They put their worst people into the lottery. And that's what we get, in many cases. So that's not going to be happening anymore. We're going to end it," Trump said.


No near-term DACA solution


Lawmakers in both parties said Tuesday that Congress was not expected to resolve the DACA issue before next year. Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, also attended the meeting and said the closer officials get to the March deadline "the more nervous I get, not to mention the way these young people feel. I'm sorry that it's taken this long. "Our belief is that if this matter is not resolved this week ... that we have another chance to finally come up with a bipartisan package of things to include" by mid-January, Durbin said.



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Pro-Trump supporters try to interrupt a speech by Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at the University of California-Irvine


Meanwhile, DACA recipients opened Dream Act Central, a tent space on Washington's National Mall that is serving as headquarters for a final push to urge Congress to pass legislation replacing the DACA program. A large-screen television at the site, which faces Capitol Hill, shows stories of young undocumented immigrants, known informally as Dreamers. The term is based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, that would have provided residence and employment protections for young immigrants similar to those in DACA.


https://www.voanews.com/a/senators-white-house-working-on-daca-deal/4172210.html

waltky
02-01-2018, 05:48 AM
Granny says, "Dat's right - dey alla buncha MS-13 gangbangers...
:shocked:
Study: Illegal Aliens, DACA-Age Youth More than Twice as Likely to Be Convicted Criminals
January 31, 2018 - Undocumented (illegal) aliens are far more likely to commit crimes, as well as to commit serious crimes, than are U.S. citizens, a new study of 33 years of Arizona prison data reveals.


The study, “Undocumented Immigrants, U.S. Citizens, and Convicted Criminals in Arizona,” by Crime Prevention Research Center President John R. Lott, also extrapolates that data to estimate how many additional crimes were committed nationally in 2016 by illegal immigrants, if Arizona is representative of the U.S. as a whole. The study provides a uniquely accurate picture of illegal immigrant crime, its abstract notes, because it relies on comprehensive state records of every prisoner incarcerated over a 33-year period, delineated by citizenship status:

“Using newly released detailed data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona state prison from January 1985 through June 2017, we are able to separate non-U.S. citizens by whether they are illegal or legal residents. Unlike other studies, these data do not rely on self-reporting of criminal backgrounds.” If undocumented immigrants committed crime nationally as they do in Arizona, the study finds that, in 2016, they would have been responsible for:

* Over 1,000 more murders,
* 5,200 rapes,
* 8,900 robberies,
* 25,300 aggravated assaults, and
* 26,900 burglaries.

The study also concludes that Arizona’s undocumented immigrants are:

* At least 142% more likely to be convicted of crime than other Arizonans.
* Sentenced to 10.5% longer sentences than U.S. citizens, due to the greater severity of their crimes.
* 163% more likely to be convicted of 1st degree murder than are U.S. citizens
* 168% more likely to be convicted of 2nd degree murder,
* 189.6% more likely to be convicted of manslaughter.
* Undocumented immigrants are also much more likely to commit sexual offenses against minors, sexual assault, DUI, and armed robbery.
* 45.4% more likely than other criminals to have been gang members, and
* 133% more likely to receive sentencing enhancements for being classified as dangerous.

Young, DACA-age undocumented immigrants make up a four times higher percent of the prison population than their share of the overall state population, the study shows: “Young convicts are especially likely to be undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants born after June 15, 1981 are eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While undocumented immigrants from 15 to 35 years of age make up a little over two percent of the Arizona population, they make up almost 8% of the prison population. These immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes.”

These statistics may well even underestimate the crime statistics of undocumented aliens, the study cautions: “Yet, there are several reasons that these numbers are likely to underestimate the share of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. There are dramatic differences between in the criminal histories of convicts who are U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/study-illegal-aliens-daca-age-youth-more-twice-likely-be-convicted-criminals

See also:

Trump Uses SOTU to Honor Parents of Teenage Girls Killed by MS-13
January 30, 2018 ) - President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call attention the victims of criminal aliens by honoring the parents of two teenage girls who were murdered by the MS-13 gang in Long Island, N.Y.


Elizabeth Alvarado, Robert Mickens, Evelyn Rodriguez, and Freddy Cuevas - the invited guests of the president - were given a standing ovation after Trump described their ordeal. The bodies of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens and 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas were found in September 2016. Both had been brutally beaten.

Authorities say Cuevas had been “marked for death” because of a feud with gang members on social media, and Mickens had just been “in the’ wrong place at the wrong time.” “Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers: Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens. Their two teenage daughters -- Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens -- were close friends on Long Island, but in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa's 16th birthday, neither of them came home,” Trump said. “These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown. Six members of the savage gang MS-13 have been charged with Kayla and Nisa's murders. Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal unaccompanied alien minors--and wound up in Kayla and Nisa's high school,” he said.

“Evelyn, Elizabeth, Freddy, and Robert: Tonight, everyone in this chamber is praying for you. Everyone in America is grieving for you. Please stand. Thank you very much. I want you to know that 320 million hearts are right now breaking for you. We love you. Thank you,” the president said. “Tonight, I am calling on the Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country. We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws, and support our ICE and Border Patrol Agents, so that this cannot ever happen again,” Trump added.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/trump-uses-sotu-address-honor-parents-teens-killed-ms-13