The DACA Magnet

Blog Articles · Jul 17, 2014 · Immigration

A recent memo from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that major "pull factors" for the current crop of illegal entries includes previously "successful migration attempts." In other words, the President's blatant refusal to enforce the law has, as anticipated, resulted in the more than 50,000 unlawful immigrants flooding the border.

Prominent among the administration's lawless decrees is a program initiated in June 2012 known as DACA: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Under this policy, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are instructed to practice "prosecutorial discretion" towards unlawful minors apprehended in the U.S., granting them de facto amnesty. It is this implied promise by the President that unaccompanied alien minors will not be returned home that has led to the current influx.

Many proponents of DACA have pointed out that, for one reason or another, many of the illegal immigrants now entering would not qualify for "deferred action" status under the President's policy. This fact, however, neither discourages the immigrants from attempting to cross nor will it prevent the President from granting them DACA amnesty anyway.

The Obama Administration has already exhibited willingness to ignore key qualifications for DACA participation in order to unilaterally grant more unlawful minors legal status.

Congress is now debating how to comply with the President's emergency funding request to correct a situation that his executive fiats have created. For example, though DACA provisions require applicants to provide "educational information," officials from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently conceded to Congressional aides that current DACA participants need not adhere to the educational standards when they reapply for consideration this September. As Breitbart explains:

At least 560,000 people to date have been granted temporary amnesty under the DACA program, and federal officials also confirmed that that number is likely to increase as applicants who were not eligible in 2012 because they were not 16 years of age will be this year so long as they meet the other requirements. In addition, DACA recipients cannot "age out."

Given the loose parameters for application approval, and the Obama Administration's reckless disregard for immigration enforcement in other areas, it only follows logic that residents of foreign lands will illegally enter the U.S. believing they will not be returned home-since, after all, they won't.