Despite significant evidence that\nvoters don\u2019t want to reward immigration violators for their bad behavior, the\nmainstream media insists on pushing the false narrative that every young\nimmigration violator is a genius-in-waiting, whose very presence has made an\nindelible contribution to American life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when subjected to any kind of scrutiny, that narrative tends to fall apart. The story of Randolph Angulo, reported by Florida\u2019s Treasure Coast Palm<\/a><\/em> is a case in point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Angulo is a native of Peru who is facing deportation. He came to the U.S. in 2014. In 2018, he graduated from a taxpayer-funded public high school. He has enrolled at Indian River Community College, a taxpayer-funded public institution<\/a>. And hopes to become a dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Palm <\/em>states that Mr. Angulo would be a \u201c\u2019dreamer\u2019 if the\noft-proposed DREAM Act, which would grant residency status to qualifying\nimmigrants who entered the U.S. as minors, had ever become law. Instead, he had\na work authorization, a Social Security number and had applied for permanent\nresidency along with his mother, who is still in Peru but is married to a\nnative of Puerto Rico \u2014 that is, a U.S. citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The clear implication is that the U.S. is somehow failing people like Mr. Angulo because it offered them DACA<\/a>, but still won\u2019t enact the DREAM Act<\/a>. Heck, it won\u2019t even give them a green card when their mother is married to a U.S. citizen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But it\u2019s obvious to anyone who is\nfamiliar with the basics of U.S. immigration law that the Palm<\/em> has left out some key facts. It never tells the reader how Mr.\nAngulo entered the country or why. And those are both critical pieces of\ninformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on the limited information\nthe Palm<\/em> actually provided, it looks\nlike Mr. Angulo\u2019s mother contracted a questionable marriage with a U.S. citizen\nand attempted to get her son a green card as the step-child of her citizen\nspouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If that is, indeed, the case, then\nMr. Angulo isn\u2019t the victim of an error by his immigration lawyer, as the Palm<\/em> claims. And he isn\u2019t even a\n\u201cdreamer\u201d or a \u201cDACA kid.\u201d He\u2019s just an ordinary immigrant that USCIS suspected\nof being engaged in a scheme to circumvent U.S. immigration laws. Hence, the\ngovernment finding, referenced by the Palm,<\/em>\nthat Mr. Angulo, his mother and her husband aren\u2019t an \u201cactual family unit\u201d \u2013\nand the accompanying deportation order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what\u2019s the moral of this story? It isn\u2019t what the Palm<\/em> would have its readers believe: That the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy is \u201cstarving the nation\u201d of the talents of people like Mr. Angulo. Rather, it is that broad, happy-sounding terms like \u201cdreamers\u201d and \u201cDACA kids\u201d are often used to obscure repeated and ongoing<\/a> immigration violations by someone the elites in the mainstream press deem worthy of free pass for breaking our immigration laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the United States is having\nenough trouble trying to educate, house and provide health care for its own\nyoung people. So, why should Mr. Angulo get a pass for repeatedly breaking the\nlaw when so many hard-working young adults in the U.S. don\u2019t? <\/p>\n\n\n\n The answer is that he shouldn\u2019t. It\u2019s nice that Mr. Angulo did well in school and that he wants to be a dentist. But becoming a productive member of society and obtaining the tools to make one\u2019s own way in life are the bare minimum that we expect from young members of our communities. And it is time that we started requiring that foreign nationals who wish to reside here start showing the same level of respect for the rule of law<\/a> that we demand from fellow Americans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite significant evidence that voters don\u2019t want to reward immigration violators for their bad behavior, the mainstream media insists on pushing the false narrative that every young immigration violator is a genius-in-waiting, whose very presence has made an indelible contribution to American life. But when subjected to any kind of scrutiny, that narrative tends to<\/p>\n