Please check your inbox to confirm.Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.President Barack Obama instituted the DACA program in 2012 through executive action after the Senate failed to pass legislation that would have given legal status to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Why DACA And All Paths To Illegal Immigration Is Bad For America By Ron Edwards | 2017-09-08T02:45:14-04:00 September 8th, 2017 | One of the reasons that the left supports illegal immigration, DACA, or dreamers pouring into America is the effort to drown out our American heritage. Here’s what is known about the contributions DACA recipients make to the U.S. economy, and how a Supreme Court ruling ending the program could impact the U.S. financially.Support for Making Sen$e Provided By:Additional Support Provided By:“If you think $495 has created a barrier, $765 would be a huge, huge blow, especially for families with multiple people registering for DACA,” she said.Support for NewsHour Provided ByDACA “has allowed young people to seek higher education, which has allowed them to not only gain skills but also increase their earning potential,” Lim said.Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter© 1996 - 2020 NewsHour Productions LLC. A national study on the long-term impact of DACA released by the Immigration Initiative this week found that the program had enabled many beneficiaries to obtain a job and increase their earnings, and generally contributed to upward social mobility.“These people have only known life in the U.S.” Lim said. And this now brings us to the main reason why Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for the Presidency. This would hurt their earning potential and job security as well as the taxes they could contribute to the economy. As that is not the case, the economic move would be to replace DACA recipients with high value immigrants.Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, characterized as a liberal think tank by Pew Charitable Trusts (X1), put out research that was then highly repeated by left leaning organizations and media outlets about the contribution of DACA recipients.Dreamers have greatly contributed to our country. Opponents of DACA and the Dream Act say the polices only encourage more illegal immigration and that amnesty should not be given to law breakers. “They’re contributing every day to local economies and to the national economy.”Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour.“The vast majority of [the DACA-eligible individuals] —93 percent—are working, if they’re not in school. Undoing DACA would merely push them underground, a huge loss for them and the country as a whole. Keep on reading at the LA Times Having these individuals thrive and contribute to society is a benefit to the whole country. In addition to the reprehensible moral consequences, ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community.
DACA recipients paid $4 billion in taxes to the U.S. government in 2017, according to figures from the New American Economy, a bipartisan group dedicated to immigration reform. Why DACA is Bad For Economy Assuming that the United States can take in a finite number of immigrants, illegal immigrants are stealing the spots that could have gone to more deserving legal immigrants. Proponents of DACA and the Dream Act say the policies are good for the US economy and that deporting Dreamers is inhumane and cruel. DACA recipients pay approximately $1.2 billion a year in federal, state and local taxes.
Under DACA, those people were able to apply for work authorization and receive temporary protection from deportation.Although DACA recipients are just a small portion of the nation’s entire immigrant population, many make significant contributions to the U.S. economy.DACA recipients paid $4 billion in taxes to the U.S. government in 2017, according to figures from the New American Economy, a bipartisan group dedicated to immigration reform.The Trump administration argues, that fee is not high enough.While the Trump administration is not currently accepting new applications from individuals seeking DACA, it is considering renewal requests.