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Title: Up to 3.6 million Dreamers in line for citizenship under DACA replacement
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The Washington Times
URL Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/new ... -citizenship-daca-replacement/
Published: Oct 20, 2017
Author: Stephen Dinan
Post Date: 2018-01-22 00:49:10 by Hondo68
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Keywords: 3.6 million DREAMers, Migration Policy Institute, parents chain-migration relati
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As many as 3.6 million illegal immigrant “Dreamers” could be in line for permanent legal status in the U.S. under plans being circulated on Capitol Hill to replace the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, according to a new report Friday from the Migration Policy Institute. In each case it’s well beyond the 700,000 people being protected by the DACA program right now, underscoring the creeping scope of amnesty Congress is considering. MPI analysts looked at five bills in Congress and found they range from a minimum of 1.3 million beneficiaries for a GOP-sponsored bill to 3.6 million under the most generous proposal, offered by Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez. All told, there are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., so legalizing Dreamers — young adult illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as juveniles — will affect a large chunk of them. President Trump last month announced he was phasing out the DACA program in six months, setting a deadline for Congress to act on a bill to grant them permanent status. But each of the five main bills announced so far would go well beyond the 700,000 illegal immigrants being protected under DACA. The DACA program applied to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. by 2007 and were before age 16 at the time, were under age 31 when they applied, who’d been in the country for five years, and who’d been working toward a high school education. The bills in Congress now would lift the age cap and update the eligibility window, making far more people eligible. In addition, perhaps hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who might have qualified for DACA didn’t apply. Those that are currently covered by DACA will be allowed to serve out their current permits, which last up to two years. And those whose status was to expire between early September and early March were allowed to apply for a two-year renewal. Of the 154,000 people with permits expiring in that period, roughly 133,000 got their renewal applications in on time. Another 5,000 applications came in after the deadline, Homeland Security said. Poster Comment: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/18/usatoday-recognizes-daca-dreamer-very-different/ “There are 3.6M ‘DREAMers’ — a number far greater than commonly known.” Many pro-amnesty legislators — and many newspaper outlets — routinely conflate the very different ‘DACA’ and ‘Dreamer’ terms. This conflation allows them to suggest that the Democrats’ huge DREAM Act amnesty for 3.6 million illegals — and eventually, their parents and chain-migration relatives — is a smaller amnesty for the ‘DACA’ illegals, whose estimated population ranges from 670,000 to 800,000.
Immigrant rights supporters hold giant letters reading "Dream Act" as they demonstrate in favor of Congress passing a 'Clean Dream Act' that will prevent the deportation of young immigrants known as Dreamers working and studying in the U.S.,Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Miami. President Trump announced plans to end a program protecting them. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/01/18/there-3-5-m-dreamers-and-most-may-face-nightmare/1042134001/
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#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
No. There are still 700,000 illegal Dreamers. The 3.6 million figure includes their illegal parents, a group the Democrats tried to include under their Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) proposal in 2014.
If they make a deal they should cap the number.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Both sides have referenced the "children" of DACA. That number is 700,000. That's the cap. In return, Trump wants $18 billion to start the wall and an end to chain migration and the visa lottery. Those are the four issues that are a package deal. Always have been.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“There are 3.6M ‘DREAMers’ — a number far greater than commonly known.”
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
Replies to Comment # 4. If they make a deal they should cap the number.
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