SO WHAT IS DACA, DREAMERS, AND TPS: THESE ARE THE NUMBERS ON THE TABLE AS PER POTUS SPEECH TODAY.

DACA DEFINED:

On November 20, 2014, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson issued new policies which allow certain aliens who arrived in the United States on or before January 1, 2010 to apply for deferred action, a form of prosecutorial discretion under which aliens are not removed from the United States and that authorizes them to seek permission to work lawfully in the United States. The former Secretary’s policies apply to certain individuals who came to the United States as children under the age of 16 of who are parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent resident children.

https://www.ice.gov/daca

https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca

NOTE: DACA IN THE KILLBOX, LEGAL CHALLENGES ONGOING

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/10/judge-blocks-trump-dreamers-daca-program-immigrants

DREAMERS DEFINED: 'DREAMERS' ARE DACA; THE DREAM ACT NEVER PASSED LEGALLY (21 TRIES!) SO DHS CHANGED THE RULES IN THE OBAMA ADMIN (ILLEGALLY) AND DREAMERS BECAME DACA

https://www.lawlogix.com/what-is-the-dream-act-and-who-are-dreamers/

TPS DEFINED: TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR INDIVIDUALS FROM SPECIFIC COUNTRIES AND CURRENTLY IN THE KILLBOX; LEGAL CHALLENGES ONGOING

TPS is in the killbox because these are individuals from countries not aligned and often opposed to US culture and policy.

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status

POTUS PITCHED

3 YRS 700,000 DACA (LEGISLATIVE RELIEF)

3 YRS TPS EXTENSION (PROTECTED STATUS)

as part of his speech today aimed at Pelosi and Congress.

BUT WHICH 700K DACA DREAMERS?? WE ARE TALKING GORILLIONS WHEN THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE INCLUDED:

<< from Jan 2018

DREAMers got their name from the DREAM Act, a bill that has been proposed in Congress since 2001, but never passed, that would protect that group of immigrants.

The 3.6 million estimate of undocumented immigrants brought to U.S. before their 18th birthday comes from the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit think tank that studies global immigration patterns. That is roughly a third of all undocumented immigrants in the country and does not include millions of their immediate family members who are U.S. citizens.

<<

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/01/18/there-3-5-m-dreamers-and-most-may-face-nightmare/1042134001/

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/

THIS 790K BEING PROTECTED FROM DEPORTATION?

2017

Several U.S. senators who support the bill represent states with some of the highest number of DACA recipients, including California, Illinois and Arizona. California alone has 222,795 initial DACA recipients, the highest in the nation, followed by Texas (124,300) and Illinois (42,376).

Unauthorized immigrants from Mexico make up more than three-quarters of all DACA recipients. Since the program started, 78% of approved applications – both initial (618,342) and renewals (622,170) – have come from Mexicans.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/01/unauthorized-immigrants-covered-by-daca-face-uncertain-future/

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WHO ARE THE DACA APPLICANTS?

The public narrative surrounding the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is that it was put in place by the Obama administration to protect “kids” who were brought here through no fault of their own.1 Proponents of the DACA program implied that applicants were almost universally Hispanic2 and that as poverty-stricken citizens of Latin American republics a short distance away from the wealthy and successful United States, their parents’ decision to violate U.S. immigration laws was somehow legitimate.3 They were also portrayed as brilliant “valedictorians” and proud “members of the military.”

In the wake of the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program, political leaders from both parties have said that it would be cruel to deport anyone covered by the DACA program because these “incredible kids” would unable to assimilate if sent back to their country of birth4 – after all the U.S. was “the only home they had ever known.”5

The DACA “Kids” Who Were Actually Grownups

From the outset, much of that narrative rang hollow. In a column for the Washington Post, Mickey Kaus described it as public-relations-style “hooey.”6 Here’s why:

Many of the DACA “kids” were not brought here as young children. Instead they were smuggled into the United States as “tweens” (ages 8-12) and teenagers.7

A large number of DACA applicants weren’t “brought” here by anyone – they crossed the border themselves:

The DACA program did not require that applicants were brought here without their consent.

Anyone who entered the U.S. prior to age 16 and who was under 31 on June 15, 2012 could apply.8

One would expect that children brought to the U.S. between ages eight and eighteen would have some ability to speak the native language of the country where they were born. So the argument that the DACA “kids” would have a hard time reintegrating in their country of citizenship appears to be false.

They’re not all valedictorians: Over 2,000 individuals approved for DACA had their status terminated because they were convicted of crimes ranging from alien smuggling to sexual assault.9 And the number of DACA recipients subject to termination is still growing.10

Fewer than 900 DACA recipients – slightly more than one tenth of one percent of the total DACA population –joined the military.11

READ IT ALL.

http://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/daca-myth-what-americans-need-know

DACA ARRESTS AT TIME OF APPLICATION FOR DACA STATUS:

Among the findings of the release:

Almost 8-percent of total DACA requestors (59,786 individuals) had arrest records as of the date the systems were queried, which included offenses such as assault and battery, rape, murder, and drunk driving, among others. “Requestors” includes individuals approved and denied DACA.

Of those individuals whose DACA requests were approved and had one or more arrests or apprehensions, 53,792 were arrested or apprehended prior to their most recent approval.

Approximately 13-percent (7,814) of approved DACA requestors with an arrest had an arrest after their grant was approved and prior to renewal.

54.8-percent of DACA requestors with more than one arrest (17,079) most recently had a DACA case status of “approved” as of the date the systems were queried.

199 individuals who requested DACA had 10 or more arrests. Of those, 51 most recently had DACA case status of “approved,” as of the date the systems were queried.

Of the total 888,765 DACA requestors, 797,297 had no arrests or apprehensions, and 710, 842 were approved.

PDF AT LINK.

2012-2018

https://www.uscis.gov/news/new-data-shows-criminal-arrest-histories-daca-requestors

HOW DACA DREAMERS WERE VETTED IN 2012: LOOK AT THE LIST OF ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIORS:

NOTE 'THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY'

NOTE 'THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY'

How are they defining 'exceptional circumstances?'

https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/documents/ilrc-2012-daca_chart.pdf

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