TRUMP'S DACA DEAL COULD
FLIP 4 STATES TO DEMS
'Illegal
immigrants obtaining voting rights equals checkmate America! They win, we lose',
1/10/18, WND
President Trump has long promised he will secure the U.S.-Mexico border with a “big beautiful wall,” but a major bargaining chip in his negotiations possibly could flip four or even five traditionally Republican-leaning states to Democrats in future elections.
Those states are: Texas, Arizona,
Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral
votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29;
North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2
percent to Hillary Clinton’s 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was
much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina
with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and
Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton’s 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those
traditionally Republican-leaning states could see a shift if illegal immigrants
known as DREAMers, or illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as
minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they’re eventually given voting
rights. Those fives states host large numbers DREAMers, as Fortune
magazine reported last January.
The issue began in 2012, when then-President Obama signed an executive order giving work permits and temporary residence to more than 800,000 noncitizens under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. In making his announcement, Obama stated: “Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people. Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization.”
The Obama administration, through a
memo by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, claimed the actions were
legal and within executive authority due to “prosecutorial
discretion.”
Obama further expanded his
immigration actions in 2014 to include illegal-immigrant parents under the
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or
DAPA. Under Obama’s actions, many illegal immigrants who were granted deferrals
received assistance funded by the states.
In September, Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan reported that, if DACA
recipients are given amnesty, at
least 1.4 million legal immigrants would enter
the U.S. through chain migration, which is when legal migrants and naturalized
citizens are allowed to bring foreign family members into the country. When
those family members get legal status, they, too, can bring in more foreigners.
In one study, Princeton University
researchers found that 618,342 illegal-immigrant DACA recipients from
Mexico could bring in as
many as four million relatives.
The Trump
administration acted to end Obama’s DACA policy in September. He
rescinded Obama’s order but delayed
shutting down the program for six months while urging Congress to come up with
a legislative solution.
But now President Trump is
indicating he’s open to DACA approval, provided his border wall is funded.
On Tuesday, Trump held a televised immigration and budget meeting at the White House and invited a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
“We want to see something happen
with DACA,” Trump
told the members of Congress.
“It’s been spoken of for years. And children are now adults, in many cases.” Trump
also said, “Truly, it [a DACA fix] should be a bill of love.”
Conservative pundit and “In Trump We Trust” author Ann Coulter called it the “lowest day of his presidency.”
“Trump, flanked by Dems & open-borders
GOPS, announces plan for 100% open-ended amnesty (per courts),” Coulter
tweeted before she posted a string of
additional comments blasting the president’s immigration statements.
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