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Last week,
Cleveland Tea Party blogged on the DACA / Dreamers’ Amnesty bill, urging Ohio
AG Mike DeWine (now running for Governor) to stay away from the coalition of state
Attorneys General suing the Trump administration and instead support the existing rule of law. That blog included phone numbers
for an Action Alert.
Hans von Spakovsky at The Daily Signal outlines the pitfalls and downsides of DACA (useful analysis if you are making any calls now or later this
week and needing information to counter the usual liberal talking points).
DACA had no requirement of English fluency either. In fact, the
original application requested applicants to answer whether the form had been
“read” to the alien by a translator “in a language in which [the applicant is]
fluent.”
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that “perhaps 24 percent
of the DACA-eligible population fall into the functionally illiterate category
and another 46 percent have only ‘basic’ English ability.”
This is a far cry from the image of DACA beneficiaries as all
children who don’t speak the language of—and know nothing about the culture
of—their native countries.
In fact, it seems rather that a significant percentage of DACA
beneficiaries may have serious limitations in their education, experience, and
English fluency that negatively affected their ability to function in American
society.
Providing amnesty to low-skilled, low-educated aliens with
marginal English language ability would impose large fiscal costs on American
taxpayers resulting from increased government payouts and benefits, and would
be unfair to legal immigrants who obeyed the law to come here.
. . .
Providing amnesty would simply attract even more illegal
immigration and would not solve the myriad of enforcement problems we have
along our borders and in the interior of the country. Congress should
concentrate on giving the federal government (with the assistance and help of
state and local governments) the resources to enforce existing immigration laws
to reduce the illegal alien population in the U.S. and stem entry into the
country.
Until those goals are accomplished, it is premature to even
consider any DACA-type bill.
Read more here.
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