Thursday, November 21, 2019

Accused thieves, child-porn suspects, suspected murderers among DACA recipients: Report

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Latest USCIS data show 79,398 'Dreamers' have at least criminal charge on record
There are teachers and lawyers, but tucked inside the DACA population are also thousands of accused drunk drivers and thieves, hundreds of forgers, sexual abusers, and even 15 people charged with murder, according to updated government numbers released Saturday.
Sixty-two “Dreamers” were approved for DACA despite having rape charges in their file, and two dozen had been accused of arson. Two with child pornography cases were given the OK, too, says U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Backers often sell the Obama-era deportation amnesty as a reward for young illegal immigrants who’ve kept their noses clean, but the statistics show 10% of those currently holding DACA status have a criminal record.
“When DACA was sold to the American people as being for valedictorians and otherwise law-abiding, that’s really just not the case,” said one USCIS official. “There’s definitely criminal actors in the population that has received deportation protections.”
The agency released the data just days after the Supreme Court heard oral argument on President Trump’s move to phase out DACA. The justices will decide whether the phaseout was legal.
As the court was preparing for argument, for Mr. Trump took to Twitter to complain about the program, raising the issue of DACA recipients’ criminal entanglements. He said “many” of them “are far from ‘angels.’”
“Some are very tough, hardened criminals,” the president said on Twitter.
He cited a statistic rom a previous USCIS report that 53,792 people with DACA had at least one criminal charge. The new data Saturday puts the total at 79,398 — including 67,861 who had charges on their record at the time they were approved, and another 11,537 who were charged while on DACA status but were allowed to remain in the program.
More than 4,300 had charges at the time they applied, and racked up new charges while in DACA status, according to the data.
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