Mayorkas Codifies DACA Policy

When the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was announced by then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in 2012, it was in the form of a departmental policy–essentially a promise by the DHS to simply look the other way in the case of certain individuals known to be in this country illegally. Since then, although DACA has succeeded in bringing more than 825,000 illegals under its protective umbrella, the policy has been subject from time to time to legal challenges. On Wednesday, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made an announcement stating the Department’s intention to head off those challenges and to “do everything in our power to preserve and fortify DACA.”

The upshot of the announcement is that what had been a mere policy is now a regulation–ie, a law not passed by Congress but one declared by an executive agency.

In addition, the new DACA makes some changes to further expand and strengthen the program. For one, it states that felony convictions for certain crimes will no longer necessarily be a barrier to entry into the program.

Not that a criminal past has ever been much of a barrier. Breitbart notes that in the past decade, 53,792 illegal aliens with prior arrest records were selected for DACA, including more than 30 suspected rapists, 10 murderers, and 95 kidnappers. What’s more, nearly 8,000 illegal aliens given DACA protection were later arrested.

Another change is that the new DACA grants recipients two years of work permits. This change is being celebrated by the open-borders billionaires, as you might expect. For example, Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us organization tweeted:

We are grateful that the Administration is no longer pursuing a plan to de-couple and separate work authorization and deportation protections. This is good. Providing work authorization as part of DACA is absolutely the right move.

So, with some carefully chosen words typed into a word processor, one unelected official–a native of Havana, Cuba, no less–codifies into law a U.S. government policy that refuses to recognize criminality as a disqualification and automatically grants work permits to known illegal aliens. Only in America.

For more, see Breitbart.

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