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Judge Says Government Does Not Have to Accept New DACA Requests

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By The Daily Caller. U.S. District Judge John Bates said the government does not have to accept new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) requests, on Friday, going back on his initial order from Aug. 3.

Illegal immigrants who were brought over as children, known as “Dreamers,” can renew their DACA applications, but no new requests will be processed, The Associated Press reported.

Bates initially ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to restart DACA by Aug. 23. USCIS warned restarting the program would force the agency to look at the uptick of roughly 50,000 new DACA applications instead of focusing on legal immigrant and guest worker applications, The Washington Times reported on Aug. 15.

The judge also delayed on providing special protections to DACA recipients. One of those protections is advance parole, where recipients can travel outside the U.S. and reenter the country, which can sometimes lead to citizenship.

Government officials said more than 100,000 new DACA applications and 30,000 advance parole requests would occur if DACA were completely rebooted and cause strain on USCIS, The Washington Times reported Saturday. Bates also feared confusion by restarting DACA even though he said illegal immigrant children were having their rights withheld, according to an opinion. (Read more from “Judge Says Government Does Not Have to Accept New DACA Requests” HERE)

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Federal Court Cases Could Decide Future of DACA

By The Boston Globe. Nearly a year after the Trump administration tried to kill an Obama-era program shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation, dueling lawsuits will probably determine the future of hundreds of thousands of people who were brought to the country as children.

On Friday, US District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the Trump administration does not have to accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but must continue processing renewals while the future of the program is under appeal. . .

Judges in the District of Columbia, California, and New York have kept DACA alive for months, issuing injunctions and ordering the government to keep processing renewal applications. (Read more from “Federal Court Cases Could Decide Future of DACA” HERE)

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Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration Must Fully Restart the DACA Program

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A federal judge ruled on Friday afternoon that the Trump administration must restart the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. . .

The program itself provides temporary opportunities for children who were brought into the United States illegally to remain in the country. Some 800,000 people, nicknamed “Dreamers,” have been allowed to stay in the country under DACA.

President Trump followed through on a campaign promise last September when he ended DACA, but did it in a way that allowed beneficiaries to continue using the program temporarily and it gave Congress a chance to pass a legislation to fix the situation. (Read more from “Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration Must Fully Restart the DACA Program” HERE)

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Report: Obama Admin. Risked SS Benefits of Americans to Give ‘Dreamers’ Amnesty

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The Obama administration risked the Social Security benefits of millions of Americans to advance DACA amnesty, a Temple University law professor claims.

Jan Ting, writing in the Washington Times, says the Obama administration secretly ended a policy to prevent Social Security fraud, all to ensure that illegal immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were not dissuaded from applying to the program because they’ve used false Social Security numbers.

Noting that the Social Security Administration estimates that three out of every four illegal aliens possess Social Security numbers fraudulently, Ting explains how this became a problem for the Obama administration’s DACA amnesty.

“When U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting DACA applications on Aug. 15, 2012, applicants were required to complete a standard work authorization form that required applicants to ‘include all [Social Security] numbers [they] have ever used.’ In other words, many DACA applicants would have been obliged to confess in writing that they had committed a felony,” Ting writes.

Recognizing that many potential DACA recipients would not sign up for the program and risk being caught committing fraud, the Obama administration announced it was “not interested” in identifying cases of SSN fraud. Going further, the Obama Social Security Administration was ordered to “suspend its decades-old practice of notifying employees by mail if the name and SSN under which their wages were being reported by their employers did not match the name and SSN in the SSA’s own records,” according to Ting.

The public was not told. Worse, American Social Security benefits were put at risk.

Many SSN “mismatches” are due to identity fraud, which means that many Dreamers were at risk of receiving mismatch letters from the SSA. Since awareness that they had been “flagged” as identity thieves might well have dissuaded them from disclosing their whereabouts in a DACA application, suspension of the SSA program was a logical add-on to the other actions taken by the administration to prevent fear of identity-theft prosecution from depressing DACA applications.

However, many “mismatches” are due, not to fraud, but to inadvertent errors in the tax-reporting forms that the worker supplied to the employer or the employer supplied to the SSA. (A very common error is the use of a married name by a female worker who did not notify the SSA of her name change.) Mismatch letters were therefor[e] a vital tool for protecting the Social Security benefits of U.S. citizens and other lawful workers. If the worker was unaware of the mismatch and had no opportunity to correct the error, he or she would receive no Social Security benefits on account of the reported wages. (emphasis added)

The Obama administration stopped enforcing the law by notifying employers of instances of Social Security mismatch. As a result, millions of Americans may have had their Social Security benefits endangered, all because the lawless Obama administration made amnesty for illegal immigrants a priority.

The reason we know about this is infuriating. Ting explains that “the fact of the suspension was buried in a footnote to an SSA Records Maintenance notice and, until now, was virtually unknown outside the SSA.”

Social Security benefits of American citizens were put at risk for amnesty, and the Obama administration couldn’t be bothered to tell anyone outside a footnote in a government report. Unbelievable. (For more from the author of “Report: Obama Admin. Risked SS Benefits of Americans to Give ‘Dreamers’ Amnesty” please click HERE)

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SCOTUS Signals Bad DACA News for Trump Admin

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The Supreme Court appears poised to reject the Justice Department’s request to overturn a lower court order requiring the continued administration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program.

The high court’s Friday afternoon orders list showed no action on the petition, a strong indication it will be denied.

Scheduling constraints require the court to act quickly if they intend to hear the case before adjourning this summer. The Supreme Court sits from early October to late June, and the schedule for a given term is generally set by January.

If the justices planned to add a case to their docket at this late juncture, they would do so quickly.

The court may yet grant the request, but the odds decrease with time.

A denial would not seriously hinder President Donald Trump’s long-term plans to wind down the program.

Judge William Alsup of the federal trial court in San Francisco, California, found that the Trump administration’s termination of DACA was based on a flawed legal premise, rendering the decision “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, (and) otherwise not in accordance with law.”

The order does not require the administration to process new applicants for the program.

In an extraordinary procedural move, the government appealed directly to the Supreme Court.

Under normal procedure, the government would challenge Alsup’s order at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a principle antagonist to Trump’s ambitions throughout his presidency.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the government’s Supreme Court lawyer, argued the case required the tribunal’s urgent attention, as Alsup’s decision “requires the government to sanction indefinitely an ongoing violation of federal law being committed by nearly 700,000 aliens.”

If the justices turn down the government’s request, the Justice Department will revert to ordinary procedure and appeal to the 9th Circuit.

If the 9th Circuit upholds Alsup’s ruling, the government can then return to the Supreme Court.

The University of California system brought the suit challenging DACA’s termination.

The system is led by Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of Homeland Security who presided over DACA’s original promulgation during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

Dreamers Threaten to Leave U.S. If No DACA Deal

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A group of DREAMers, young illegal immigrants fighting to stay in the country following the Trump Administration’s refusal to extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order, say they’ll leave the country if a deal isn’t reached . . . err . . . to keep them in the country.

Speaking to CNN, one of these DREAMers, Alex Velez, said, “I will leave. I will leave America as soon as possible,” claiming that she would prefer to depart the country on her own terms than wait for the United States to collect and deport her.

The theory appears to be that, if DREAMers suddenly disappear, Americans will notice their absence. Velez and her sister claim they own businesses, pay tuition, and hold jobs, and that America has a duty to keep them here in order to maintain their contributions.

The problem is, for the Velez sisters, striking against the United States for refusing to accommodate them isn’t a plan with a likely payoff. The pair are undocumented citizens brought over by their parents from Venezuela, and the situation in their home country is less than ideal. (Read more from “Dreamers Threaten to Leave U.S. If No DACA Deal” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Crime: Another Daca Recipient Arrested for Human Smuggling

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On Monday, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested another Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, this time in Arizona, for attempting to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico.

Agents working in the Yuma Sector came across the footprints of several illegal aliens attempting to enter the U.S. from Mexico and communicated the information to Targeted Enforcement Unit agents, who witnessed four subjects entering into a white truck nearby. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports:

Agents from both units intercepted the vehicle and performed a vehicle stop. The driver was identified as a 26-year-old male Mexican national DACA recipient from Salinas, California. The other four occupants were all determined to be Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States. The driver was arrested for human smuggling charges, and the four passengers were arrested for immigration violations. The vehicle was seized for forfeiture.

The arrest by federal agents marks the third time in less than a week that Border Patrol agents arrested a DACA recipient for suspected human smuggling.

The first incident occurred on January 24, when agents working in San Diego received a tip that suspected human smuggling was occurring near Torrey Pines State Beach. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Crime: Another Daca Recipient Arrested for Human Smuggling” HERE)

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‘I’m All for It’: DACA Immigrants Suddenly Changing Their Tune on Trump and the Border Wall

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Many of the so-called Dreamers worried about their immigration status are starting to reconsider their opposition to a possible wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report Friday from the San Francisco Chronicle.

President Donald Trump’s wall at the border wouldn’t be so bad, some groups are now saying, so long as it means citizenship for the nearly 700,000 people brought into the country through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“If building a wall leads us to having citizenship, then I’m all for it,” Ana Rodriguez, who works at a daycare center in California, told reporters at the Chronicle. “The U.S. is what I know and that’s where I want to live my life — I want to be a part of it in full.”

Rodriguez and others like her are arguing about accepting a trade-off — giving Trump his wall in exchange for retaining DACA. The Trump administration proposed a bill earlier this month offering citizenship to 1.8 million illegal immigrants in exchange for $25 billion for a border wall.

Activist organizations have also noted that DACA recipients are making recalculations about their opposition. Marissa Montes, co-director of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic in Los Angeles, noticed in recent weeks that they are sounding more and more likely to back a wall in exchange for citizenship.

“It’s coming from a point of exhaustion — they’ve tried everything,” Montes told reporters. “Their instinct is survival and as human beings, how much longer can they endure this? They’re ping-ponging back and forth.”

Former President Barack Obama implemented the program in 2012 to allow people younger than 16 who live in the country illegally to receive renewable, two-year protections from deportation along with work permits. They also had to live in the country continuously from 2007 onward and have no criminal convictions.

Trump ended the Obama-era executive action in September telling Congress it had six months to codify the program into law before protections expired. The president eventually temporarily reinstated the action after being showered with criticisms — but the temporary halt will be lifted over the next several months.

Democrats have been seeking a bill that covers DACA recipients, and as many as 2 million similarly situated illegal immigrants who did not apply or did not qualify for the Obama amnesty.

Trump’s upcoming proposal appears to be an effort to split the difference between the Democratic demand and an immigration reform bill from House Republicans, which was limited to roughly 700,000 existing DACA beneficiaries.

Democrats used the DACA issue as a cudgel during the budget debate earlier this month to temporarily shut down the government. Republicans refused to bend to the Democrat’s demands at the time to negotiate DACA, while the minority party largely unified to use the shutdown deadline to exact protections from the GOP for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants.

Republicans tried to sweeten the deal, offering Democrats a long-term extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, as well as the delay of some unpopular health care taxes. The GOP believed the public would blame Democrats if the sweetener was rejected.

Democrats appear concerned about the optics as well. A Super PAC allied with Senate Democrats commissioned a poll in 12 battleground states to determine which party would be blamed if a shutdown was tied to the legal status of dreamers. The poll found that Democrats absorb most of the blame in such a scenario.

The poll, which was conducted in December by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group on behalf of a Senate Majority PAC, also found that blame for a shutdown would be split between Trump and Republicans, and Democrats in Congress, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.

Recent polling shows Hispanics are evenly split on whether to combine a DACA deal to the building of a wall — 42 percent of Hispanics oppose it and 42 percent support it, according to the Quinnipiac poll conducted Jan. 18. In total, 73 percent of voters’ support allowing Dreamers to remain in the U.S. legally, according to the poll.

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

Doctor Who’s Lived in U.S. Since 5 Years Old Faces Deportation

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A Polish doctor in Michigan, who fled to the US with his family nearly 40 years ago, faces deportation to his birth country after he was arrested at his home by ICE agents and thrown in jail.

Lukasz Niec, who has a permanent green card, was home with his two daughters Tuesday morning when three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up, placed him in handcuffs and took him to jail.

The 43-year-old internal medicine physician at Kalamazoo’s Bronson Methodist Hospital has spent the past several days at the Calhoun County jail awaiting his fate.

Niec’s family told WOOD TV that there’s a chance the doctor could be deported to Poland, a country he left with his parents and sister nearly 40 years ago.

Iwona Niec-Villaire said her brother is ‘shell-shocked’ about being arrested and the possibility he may be deported. (Read more from “Doctor Who’s Lived in U.S. Since 5 Years Old Faces Deportation” HERE)

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New Study: Senator’s DACA Dream Is Arizona’s Crime Nightmare

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We have enough of our own culture of violence in our major cities. Is it too much to ask that we don’t import the violent criminals of other countries? Or perhaps, for our political elite who don’t understands the concept of a government representing its own people, we can frame the question in the language they understand: We already have our own $#!%holes (Chicago, Baltimore, etc.). Do we need to import $#!%holes from the rest of the world?

A new report published by expert criminologist John Lott lays waste to the long-standing lie peddled by open-borders advocates that crime rates are low among illegal aliens. Part of the reason it has been so hard to prove conclusively what everyone sees in their communities is that most crime is dealt with at a state and local level, and most states don’t have uniform data on the immigration status of criminals processed through their systems. Lott is the famed author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” who now runs the Crime Prevention Research Center. Milton Friedman once said of John Lott that he “has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues.”

Lott studied data from the state of Arizona from 1985 to 2017 to prove conclusively that illegal aliens commit crimes at a disproportionate rate relative to their share of the population. ere is what he found:

Illegal immigrants in Arizona are at least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of crime than other Arizonans. And these are not just immigration and drug violations that we see on the federal level. They are more likely to be convicted of serious violent crimes: at least 163 percent more likely for first-degree murder; 168 percent more likely for second-degree murder; and 189.6 percent more likely for manslaughter. Also, Lott’s data confirms what some of us see anecdotally every day but is ignored by the national media – that illegals in Arizona are more likely to commit sexual offenses against minors, sexual assault, drunk driving, kidnapping, and armed robbery.

We are often told that “dreamers” are a cut above the rest of the illegal population, and President Trump, who otherwise understands the truth on the broader issue, seems to have accepted this premise. Lott’s research found that although DACA-age illegals compose 0.81 percent of Arizona’s population, they represent 8 percent of the prison population. This means they compose 71.2 percent of the illegal immigrant population in prison and that they are 884 percent more likely to be convicted of crimes than non-immigrants of their age. If anything, “dreamers” are actually a bigger public safety risk than older illegal immigrants.

While there is no uniform data nationwide, Lott projects that “[I]f undocumented immigrants committed crime nationally as they do in Arizona, in 2016 they would have been responsible for over 1,000 more murders, 5,200 rapes, 8,900 robberies, 25,300 aggravated assaults, and 26,900 burglaries.”

Illegal immigrant criminals are 45.4 percent more likely to have been gang members, and “they are 133% more likely to receive sentencing enhancements for being classified as dangerous, and they tend to be released from prison at a younger age despite more serious crimes because they initially go to jail at a younger age.” Keep in mind that Obama’s DACA program tried to avoid scrutinizing juvenile records of recipients.

It’s important to remember that the data Lott studied came from the Arizona Department of Corrections, put together for the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys’ Advisory Council. The report analyzed “the entire universe of cases [615,555 convicted crimes], not a sample, and thus there are no issues of statistical significance.” There is reason to believe illegals might commit an even more disproportionate share of crimes that go unreported, especially within their communities, but convictions are a solid data point that reveals the floor, not the ceiling, of the criminal alien crisis. Remember, even among the general population, only a fraction of crimes are reported and wind up leading to a conviction. For conviction rates to be this high among illegals is staggering.

No wonder so many liberal state governments refuse to release data on immigration and crime. Until recently, the federal government hid the data on crime rates and immigration status in federal facilities. Thankfully, Trump’s DOJ released the data showing non-citizens (mainly illegal aliens) accounted for convictions 2.5 times their share of the population.

Folks, this is a national disgrace. Even if this were only limited to Arizona, it would be a gross violation of Article 4 Sec. 4, which tasks the federal government with the job of protecting states from invasion. But there is no reason to believe that the crime rates among illegal aliens are any different in most other states. This is a national emergency. Instead of a DACA “fix,” where is the clamor for a criminal alien fix for Americans?

While we have our own violent crime problem in America, the number of our violent criminals from other countries should be zero. That is because we should never bring in anyone who is violent, and those who manage to get in or commit crimes after being legally admitted should immediately be deported. Citizens, of course, cannot be deported. But immigration is a choice by we the people. So why are we electing to turn out country into a dumping ground?

Meanwhile, we have Arizona’s very junior senator, Jeff Flake, advertising his upcoming sanctimonious speech declaring that Trump is like Stalin. This man is a living and breathing disgrace, a violation of the social contract. As a senator from Arizona, he should be laying down on the proverbial tracks to stand up for his state and demand the deportation of every single criminal alien, the punishing of sanctuaries, and the immediate implementation of border and interior enforcement. Instead, he is exhibiting utter disregard for his own people and expending his entire tenure granting more legal rights and access to welfare for a particular population that, in general, is even more violent than the rest of illegal immigrants.

Proponents of DACA amnesty will claim that only the very best will get amnesty, but Flake is pushing for a broader Dream Act, which encompasses this entire population of illegals under 35, a population that Lott found to be full of violent criminals. Moreover, even among the 700,000 DACA population, only Goodlatte’s bill would open up juvenile records, which, according to this study, show the true extent of the criminal activity among many of the “Dreamers.”

It is even more disgraceful that people like Mitt Romney are using Martin Luther King’s legacy to promote the continued failed legacy of our immigration system when he was all about the rule of law and the equal treatment of all American citizens. Now, all Americans — black and white — are getting sent to the back of the bus for illegal aliens and are being thrown under the bus in their communities by politicians who harbor criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.

Illegal aliens in general, and “dreamers” in particular, have been a nightmare for Arizona. This shouldn’t even be a partisan issue. Everyone should agree to immediately deport all criminal aliens before there is any discussion of amnesty. Sadly, Jeff Flake and his compatriots are daydreaming about amnesty while his constituents bear the crushing cost of his nightmare. (For more from the author of “New Study: Senator’s DACA Dream Is Arizona’s Crime Nightmare” please click HERE)

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It’s Time for a U.S. DACA: Deferred Action From Criminal Aliens

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Only in our dystopian remnant of America can an illegal alien come here after being deported several times, snuff out the life of a young woman, and walk away scot-free. We are strangers in our own land of illegal alien supremacism and nobody in the political class wants to hear our side of the issue.

Late Thursday evening, a San Francisco jury acquitted Jose Garcia Zarate — an illegal alien from Mexico — of all murder charges, including manslaughter, for the death of Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015.

The 32-year-old woman was killed when Zarate decided to pick up a 40-caliber SIG Sauer he claims to have found on a pier bench and randomly fired it into her back. She died in her father’s arms.

This is not a random story. Sadly, there are well over a million criminal aliens in this country who are roaming the streets. Zarate was deported five times previously and racked up seven felony convictions in America, but was allowed to roam our streets and “accidentally” fire a gun because of sanctuary cities like San Francisco.

Many commentators will focus on the absurdity of the jury’s decision; there is certainly a lot to say about the jury pool in places like San Francisco. One has to wonder if we are entering an era reminiscent of the Jim Crow South, where in certain jurisdictions we can’t get justice if the perpetrator is of the right ilk, in this case being an illegal alien.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions already announced that DOJ might bring a federal lawsuit against Zarate. He is right to pursue federal charges because even if one believes the discharge was accidental, it is still a felony for an illegal alien to be in possession of a firearm, not to mention reentering the country illegally four times.

But the bigger issue here is not an individual trial or a jury pool but the broader questions of sanctuary cities, border security, and interior enforcement.

The Steinle killer was the poster child for sanctuary cities, because less than three months before the shooting Zarate was released by San Francisco Police after being arrested on drug charges.

Federal immigration officials had requested that he be detained for 48 hours so they can pick him up and deport him, but the neo-confederates of San Francisco took their nullification policies to such an extreme that even someone with the rap sheet of Zarate was set free.

This is part of a broader pattern. A few months ago, two illegal aliens stole a gun from a San Francisco cop and allegedly murdered someone with it. They had previously been arrested for other crimes but were released in defiance of an ICE detainer request. One of the suspects came here through the asylum loophole the politicians refuse to close.

And now judges, including federal judges in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Chicago, are declaring sanctuary policies and prohibiting states from cooperating with ICE or creating an entitlement for sanctuary cities to obtain federal funds and even for sanctuary cities to obtain state funds.

It was so bad that the plaintiff in the Massachusetts case that served as the impetus for their sanctuary policies was later re-arrested for slapping and robbing a wheelchair-bound woman leaving a bank. A 2014 analysis from ICE of sanctuary cities found that 8,145 individuals were released during a nine-month period and 1,867 were subsequently re-arrested a total of 4,298 times on nearly 7,500 criminal charges.

Overall, nearly one million have already received final deportation orders, and these are, for the most part, criminal aliens. Yet only a small percentage of this pool of illegals are deported in a given year. When will either party treat this issue like the emergency that it is?

We have a lot of violence in this country, but there are limits to what we can do about our inherent domestic problems. We don’t need to import the violent criminals of other countries. They should be deported immediately, and this should not be a partisan issue. While any murder is senseless, the death of Kate Steinle is even more tragic because Zarate should never have been in the country in the first place.

DACA is the cause, not the solution, to the violence

Appallingly, even some of the “conservatives” in Washington won’t stop talking about a “DACA fix” for “Dreamers.” What about a sanctuary fix in the budget? What about an asylum fix? What about a border surge fix?

Obama’s amnesty is exactly what broke the system and has led to a surge in criminal alien killings in this country. Over the past three years, 22 percent of all those arrested for involvement with MS-13 were Central American “children” who crossed the border.

This is the legacy of the DACA amnesty and yet the politicians have the temerity to talk about amnesty as a “fix.” A fix to what? Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., should hang their heads in shame for marshaling their respective state’s resources to focus on lawbreaking rather than representing their constituents.

It’s time to go on offense — President Trump and the Freedom Caucus should demand five particular things in addition to the border wall.

1. A denial of federal grant funds to sanctuary cities to be placed in the budget bill this month. Also, the defund effort should include transportation funds because California has granted 800,000 driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

2. There’s an epidemic of illegal alien drunk-driving fatalities, and while states can do what they want with driver’s licenses (except for when they don’t want to issue them to illegals and courts mandate it), they should also face consequences when it comes to federal funds. Let Democrats risk a shutdown in order to protect criminal aliens and lawless jurisdictions.

3. Passage of the Davis-Oliver interior enforcement act, which punishes sanctuary cities, deputizes states to enforce immigration laws, and bolsters expedited deportations. Why has leadership held this bill up from a floor vote for three years after passing committee twice?

4. Finally end the practice of dumping Central American unaccompanied children (UACs), many of whom are extremely violent, into our communities.

As we’ve noted before, almost none of them fit the statutory description of “severely trafficked” victims who are entitled to refugee resettlement. In fact, most are smuggled in by their families and many, as stated above, have ties to MS-13.

In FY 2017, over 42,000 were resettled, and their numbers are growing. Remember the MS-13 body count in once-peaceful Long Island we reported on last week?

Fox News reports that thousands of UACs have been dumped into their schools and local officials say their schools have now become breeding grounds for gang activity. So much for being victims. The victims here are our own communities, not criminal aliens.

5. Trump should order his IRS to stop giving refundable tax credits to illegal aliens.

And when, oh when, will Congress and Trump wake about regarding the stolen sovereignty from the courts? Congress could take immigration away from the lower courts in a heartbeat.

Trump’s tweets regarding Steinle were on message, but now is the time to see whether he is indeed serious about putting Americans first in practice. It’s time for an American DACA –Deferred Action from Criminal Aliens. (For more from the author of “It’s Time for a U.S. DACA: Deferred Action From Criminal Aliens” please click HERE)

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