09-09-2017, 04:59 PM
The shameful statistic that liberals don’t want you to know about DACA
When President Barack Obama signed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) into law by executive order in 2012, it was intended to grant protected legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before the age of 16, and either graduated from high school, or were enrolled in school or an educational program. If approved, the young adults would be issued Social Security numbers and two-year work permits.
Given that DACA essentially grants a path to amnesty, you can bet the program is rife with fraud.
According to reporting from LifeZette:
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As many as half of the approximately 800,000 people who now have work permits under DACA may have lied on their applications to get approved, said Matt O’Brien, an attorney and until last year a manager in the investigative unit of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
“Based on what I had seen and what I discussed with my colleagues, the fraud rate is 40 to 50 percent. It’s possible that it was higher,” he told LifeZette this week.
USCIS employees did quick checks of DACA applications, he said, rather than thorough reviews, “in order to get the DACAs all racked and stacked quickly.” He said immigration officers often found evidence that someone had lied about his DACA qualifications, but that the office of the chief counsel at USCIS almost always dismissed a recommendation to deny an application.
“I would say 98 percent of the time they defaulted to approving them,” he said. The kind of fraud that was often flagged, he noted, involved lying about age.
That’s because one of the eligibility requirements is that a person had to have been present in the country and no more than 30 years old at the time the memo was issued.
Despite liberal fearmongering about Trump’s “cruelty” for deporting “children” because he opposes DACA, most DACA recipients are anything but (and that’s based on the self-reported figures of the beneficiaries themselves, which is likely understated). Roughly a quarter are above the age of 24, and 40 percent are aged 19-23. The average recipient is 25.
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The Trump administration has already begun winding down DACA, but has given Congress a six month window to preserve it through legislation, if they wish. “The legislative branch, not the executive branch, writes these laws,” Trump said.
In that case, with statistics like these, it’s clear the rampant fraud needs to end.
[Note: This post was written by Matt Palumbo. He is a co-author of the new book A Paradoxical Alliance: Islam and the Left, and can be found on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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When President Barack Obama signed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) into law by executive order in 2012, it was intended to grant protected legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before the age of 16, and either graduated from high school, or were enrolled in school or an educational program. If approved, the young adults would be issued Social Security numbers and two-year work permits.
Given that DACA essentially grants a path to amnesty, you can bet the program is rife with fraud.
According to reporting from LifeZette:
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He's BAAAAAACK?[VIDEO] Thanks to the memory of the internet, we know how Hillary felt about DACA in 2014Trump's DOJ hands down a brand new twist in the 'gay wedding cake' case
As many as half of the approximately 800,000 people who now have work permits under DACA may have lied on their applications to get approved, said Matt O’Brien, an attorney and until last year a manager in the investigative unit of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
“Based on what I had seen and what I discussed with my colleagues, the fraud rate is 40 to 50 percent. It’s possible that it was higher,” he told LifeZette this week.
USCIS employees did quick checks of DACA applications, he said, rather than thorough reviews, “in order to get the DACAs all racked and stacked quickly.” He said immigration officers often found evidence that someone had lied about his DACA qualifications, but that the office of the chief counsel at USCIS almost always dismissed a recommendation to deny an application.
“I would say 98 percent of the time they defaulted to approving them,” he said. The kind of fraud that was often flagged, he noted, involved lying about age.
That’s because one of the eligibility requirements is that a person had to have been present in the country and no more than 30 years old at the time the memo was issued.
Despite liberal fearmongering about Trump’s “cruelty” for deporting “children” because he opposes DACA, most DACA recipients are anything but (and that’s based on the self-reported figures of the beneficiaries themselves, which is likely understated). Roughly a quarter are above the age of 24, and 40 percent are aged 19-23. The average recipient is 25.
The Trump administration has already begun winding down DACA, but has given Congress a six month window to preserve it through legislation, if they wish. “The legislative branch, not the executive branch, writes these laws,” Trump said.
In that case, with statistics like these, it’s clear the rampant fraud needs to end.
[Note: This post was written by Matt Palumbo. He is a co-author of the new book A Paradoxical Alliance: Islam and the Left, and can be found on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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