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A report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated legalizing “Dreamers” as part of DACA legislation would cost taxpayers $25.9 billion. The three million illegal immigrants eligible to take advantage of such legislation would contribute around $900 million during the same 10-year-period.
“In total, CBO and JCT [the Joint Committee on Taxation] estimate that changes in direct spending and revenues from enacting [the bill] would increase budget deficits by $25.9 billion over the 2018-2027 period.” – CBO
President Trump forced the issue with his executive order ending President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order. This was heralded immediately by many of his supporters as fulfillment of his promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants. That excitement was short-lived when the President declared he wanted a legislative “solution” for DACA rather than an end to it. In fact, he said he would act if Congress didn’t by extending the six-month deadline he imposed:
Trump to extend DACA protections if Congress doesn’t act: report
“The president’s comment to me was that, ‘We put a six-month deadline out there. Let’s work it out. If we can’t get it worked out in six months, we’ll give it some more time, but we’ve got to get this worked out legislatively,’” Lankford said.
When Trump rescinded President Obama’s landmark immigration protections in September, he set a six-month deadline for Congress to legalize the protections for so-called “Dreamers,” young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
So much for being tough on illegal immigration.
In essence, the President did not reverse Obama’s executive order. He threw down the gauntlet for Congress to make it permanent. This started off as President Obama’s mess and has turned into something President Trump and the GOP are destined to solidify.
As Joseph Curl notes on DailyWire, “No wonder America is $20 trillion in the red”:
Legalizing ‘Dreamers’ Would Cost Taxpayers $26 Billion (That’s Billion With A ‘B’)
With a 2012 executive order bypassing Congress, former president Barack Obama decided to give amnesty to as many as 2 million “Dreamers” who live in the United States, primarily brought in as children by their illegal alien parents, mostly from Mexico.
In September, President Trump ordered an end to the program that shields the young illegals from deportation, arguing that the cost for all those to stay would be astronomical.
And he’s right.
My Take
He may be right with his words, but the President’s actions do not match them. He didn’t order an end to the program. He’s pushing Congress to make DACA legislatively permanent, a move that so far hasn’t seemed to anger much of his base for some reason.
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