pafret wrote:
"focus the energy of federal law enforcement on actual criminals instead of deporting immigrants with good intentions."
Immigrants are not deported unless they violate US Law.
Not true.
pafret wrote:
Illegal aliens are criminals, not immigrants.
No, they are immigrants, not criminals.
pafret wrote:
They are in violation, of the law, by simply being here and their intentions don't matter whatsoever.
Yeah, I know this is the basis for your statements so far but it's simply not true. There is no federal law that explicitly says an alien can't be here without permission. The federal law DOES say that only a limited number of immigrants can be permitted in a given year (675,000), but that law applies to immigration agencies - it's a quota. If there are 100 people in a room with a sign that says maximum capacity 90. Who do you blame? All the people? Do you arbitrarily pick out 10? Or do you blame the guy at the door that's supposed to be counting?
Once inside there is an abundance of limits required by laws regarding qualifications for benefits, hiring policies etc... But again, these laws apply to the corresponding agencies and hiring companies etc... There is no law that says a person is a criminal just for being in the United States without permission... For that to be true the crime of "being here without permission" would have to actually be legislated by Congress and so far, it's not.
You are apparently being influenced by a torrent of hyped-up bullshit. I suggest you actually read the laws and make your conclusions from there.
I want to mention something though... The central concern of DACA are the "Dreamers"... people who were brought here as children through no action of their own. These dreamers did not make the decision to be here and yet people like you want to call them criminals. That's disgusting and it's real hard not to see this as a racist issue.
I was born in the UK and came here when I was 2 years old because my father was an aerospace engineer that was recruited by U.S. defense contractors. We came here legally because we basically got the red carpet treatment (and being Anglo-Saxons, we were determined to be "superior people" for which the quota was wide open... Yes, pre-1965 immigration laws actually categorized the races like that. The point is I had NOTHING to do with the decision to be here, any more than a black person makes a decision to have black skin. Calling dreamers criminal is no different than calling a black person a criminal just for being black.
There is no federal law regarding the the fate of the dreamers. During the Obama era, the Republican-led Congress refused to move on the issue because due-process would expose the innocence of these people and the deceptions of the anti-immigration advocates. The reason why Trump is repealing DACA is that doing so will take the pressure off Congress and allow the Executive Branch to imprison innocent people without being challenged. One more step to tyranny.
pafret wrote:
The fact that they concealed themselves, to avoid being scooped up and deported is not a plus factor because while they were concealed, in this country many of them committed further crimes such as applying for welfare benefits and public services such as schooling for which US Citizens have to bear the cost.
These lies have been debunked so many times, it's not even worth arguing anymore. In fact, studies have repeatedly shown that undocumented workers in this country actually contribute more than they take. But that doesn't fit your narrative does it?