The Dream Act Is Not Law - Granite Grok

The Dream Act Is Not Law

“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.”   -Dwight D. Eisenhower

MS-13There is no way around the definition: Succinctly put, illegal immigration is the unauthorized entry into the Country by foreign nationals without permission from the U.S. Government. Illegal Immigration violates immigration laws. Foreign nationals who overstay their visas are also illegal immigrants. If a person is in the United States, not being a naturalized citizen, they have violated U.S. Law. They are “crimaliens.”

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Also known as DACA) operates on an unconstitutional executive order signed by President Obama on November 20, 2014. Obama was frustrated that Congress had yet again, failed to pass the DREAM Act legislation. The unconstitutional executive order signed by the former president has served as an open borders invitation for people to surepticiously cross our international borders or overstay visas.

Hans Von Spakovsky and David Inserra writing in The Hill at the time wrote,

As a sovereign nation, we have the right to decide who comes to the U.S. Even if we doubled our current legal immigration quotas, there would still be people who would enter or remain in the U.S. illegally. Enforcing our immigration laws encourages people to come to the U.S. legally and discourages illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, the U.S. government has for many years failed to faithfully enforce our immigration laws. This has inevitably encouraged more and more illegal immigration. DACA is the pinnacle of non-enforcement; not only does it protect illegal immigrants from deportation, it provides benefits that by law are reserved for American citizens and Whether DACA is good public policy or bad public policy is, however, ultimately irrelevant to whether President Trump should end the program. He should end it for the same reasons that the federal courts prevented President Obama from implementing the similar “Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents” program or DAPA. Like DACA, DAPA provided an administrative amnesty for illegal aliens and gave them work authorizations and access to government benefits.legal immigrants. Why come to the U.S. legally if you can acquire many of the same benefits by coming illegally?…

the Fifth Circuit said, the fact that the president declined to enforce the law and remove illegal aliens “does not transform presence deemed unlawful by Congress into lawful presence and confer eligibility for otherwise unavailable benefits based on that change.”

As this is written, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making a statement on the administrations repeal of DACA.  Congress will now have to act. Will they act? Probably not. Congress is, after all, useless.

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