So Democrats (and some Republicans) are willing to shut down the government and not pay our military over illegal alien dreamers. They and their lackeys in the media claim that there are about 700,000-800,000 DACA ‘dreamers’ illegally living in this country. Turns out that’s only about a fifth or so of the total amount of illegal aliens in this country that could qualify for “DACA.” Democrats don’t have a chance in future elections unless these nearly four million illegals are given amnesty. Then they would never lose.
| There are nearly 4 million DACA ‘dreamers’ in US, not 700,000 |
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The political debate over the fate of “DREAMers” — undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — has overlooked just how many there are in the country today: about 3.6 million.
That number of people whose lives risk being uprooted is not widely known, in large part because so much public attention has been focused recently on 800,000 mostly young DREAMers accepted into the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
This smaller group of DREAMers is in the spotlight because President Trump terminated DACA in September, saying it was an illegal overreach of executive authority that can only come from Congress, which is negotiating with Trump on a compromise immigration plan.
While many politicians use DREAMer and DACA interchangeably, the terms are “not a distinction without a difference,” said House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
The 3.6 million estimate of undocumented immigrants brought to U.S. before their 18th birthday comes from the Migration Policy Institute, a non-profit research group that promotes better understanding of immigration issues. That is roughly a third of all undocumented immigrants in the country and does not include millions of their immediate family members who are U.S. citizens.