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Arizona Supreme Court takes away in-state tuition from Dreamers
April 10, 2018
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It would appear as though our country is finally turning down the right road when it comes to immigration reform.
Arizona just announced DACA recipients will no longer receive in-state tuition rates.
Accountability
Ever since former President Obama signed the unconstitutional legislation, conservatives have been waiting for someone, anyone to hold undocumented immigrants accountable for their actions.
A great start is happening in Arizona.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich stated, “My role as AG is to make sure you’re following the law.”
By stripping in-state benefits from the “Dreamers,” tuition will significantly increase for these students.
At Arizona State, tuition will rise from $10,640 to $26,470.
At Maricopa Community College, tuition will rise from $86 per credit hour to $241.
Fighting Back
Groups supporting DACA amnesty are literally losing their minds over this ruling.
They continue to take the stance that these individuals are coming here for a better life and this goes against everything America stands for.
What they seem to forget, though, is Dreamers should not be here in the first place.
Furthermore, they should definitely not be getting benefits that come out of hardworking American taxpayer dollars.
With Arizona holding one of the larger DACA populations, the amount of money saved by the state for revoking this benefit will be monstrous.
Now that Arizona has set the precedent, more states should follow suit and do the same.
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But, this is only the beginning.
Medical benefits, entitlement programs… everything needs to be taken away from these people for one simple fact: They are here illegally.
In a stunning contrast to US policy, Israel is quickly deporting its own “Dreamers” back to various African countries.
Israel is hosting thousands of “Dreamers,” mainly African women and children who entered the country illegally in the past decade, but now Israeli officials are no longer hesitant to deport them.
Alam Godin fled to Israel as a boy, escaping war in Sudan more than a decade ago with his family.
Now, he’s among thousands of African men who could be given a choice by the Israeli government: Take $3,500 to relocate to an unnamed “third country” — widely reported to be Uganda or Rwanda — go back to their home country, or go to jail.
The Israelis are giving priority to its own citizens before migrants.
“As wise men have taught us: ‘Take care of the poor in your city before taking care of the poor in other cities,’” Interior Minister Aryeh Deri told the Post.
And Israel isn’t alone in its immigration policy; numerous countries across the world are quick to deport illegal immigrants.
Yet only the US – and some Western Europoean countries like Germany and Sweden – are somehow expected to provide amnesty and welfare for economic migrants who entered the country illegally:
Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dropped the hammer on Wednesday while speaking to hundreds of law enforcement officers in San Antonio at the Border Security Expo — warning that the days of people illegally entering the United States and getting away with it are coming to an end.
“If we get a clean DACA bill, shame on all of us,” Homan said, referring to the Obama's controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, as reported by the Washington Examiner. "You can’t address DACA and reward people that brought children here illegally and not address underlying reasons of DACA.”
In a fiery 40-minute speech, Homan said he would “never back down” from safeguarding America’s borders as he called for an end to “sanctuary cities” across the nation.
Sanctuary cities "bankroll the very criminal organizations that have killed Border Patrol agents and killed special agents in ICE," Homan said. "They’re not protecting immigrant communities like they say they are because these people are going to reoffend and commit crimes in the very communities in which they live.”
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Border Patrol arrested the first man, a 20-year-old Mexican national whose
name who remains unidentified near Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego
on January 24, after someone reported a suspected smuggling incident.
Agents found a suspicious vehicle pulled over on the side of Interstate 5, and
conducted an immigration check, which resulted in the arrest of the 20-year-old.
In addition to the man suspected of human smuggling, the police found two
additional illegal immigrants: two Mexican nationals, ages 21 and 22. The
20-year-old and 22-year-old admitted to agents that they had engaged in
human smuggling.
The following day, January 25, Border Patrol agents stumbled on a similar
scene in the eastern part of San Diego County, when they pulled over a blue
Honda passing near an immigration checkpoint.
The driver of that car – who was also a Dreamer, a 22-year-old Mexican
national, admitted to agents that he was scouting the area to aid a group of
smugglers. A 25-year-old US citizen was also later arrested, suspected of
being part of the human smuggling scheme.
It's unclear if the suspects caught over the two day period were part of the
same smuggling ring, or whether they were operating separately. If convicted,
all men arrested for human trafficking face both jail time in the United States
and deportation to Mexico.
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/shock-dreamers-arrested-for-human-smuggling#Giq7IZ0YRTqFUPtV.99
The Senate voted Monday to end debate and set up an additional vote to conclude the government shutdown after Republicans provided assurances to Democrats that immigration reform and other items of contention would be addressed in the near future.
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The successful vote came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged that it was Republicans' "intention to take up legislation here in the Senate that would address DACA, border security and related issues, as well as disaster relief." Democrats had attempted to pair such items with an appropriations package.
"Let me be clear: This immigration debate will have a level playing field at the outset and an amendment process that's fair to all sides," he said.
The vote passed by an 81-18 margin with just two Republicans, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., voting no. Among the Democrats in opposition were a number of senators rumored to be interested in a 2020 presidential run, including Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
The next step is for the Senate to vote on a final measure to fund the government through Feb. 8, passage of which would end the shutdown at three days and just one day into the start of the work week. The continuing resolution also includes six years of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program. It was not immediately clear how quickly the Senate would hold that vote.
Though the vote to end debate was successful, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumercontinued his criticism of the negotiation process and demonstrated particular frustration with what he described as a lack of bipartisanship from the White House.
"The great deal-making president sat on the sidelines," said Schumer on the Senate floor prior to the vote, explaining that he had not spoken with President Donald Trump since a meeting Friday before the shutdown began.
Some moderate and Democratic senators had told ABC News that they hoped McConnell would delay the vote to allow a little more time to work out a broader deal. The cloture vote, which required 60 votes, had already failed several times and Republicans were looking for as many as seven Democrats to join them as of Monday morning.
The cloture vote passed despite a group of bipartisan senators emerging from talks earlier in agreement that McConnell needed to clarify his immigration-related promises.
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Sen. Susan Collins stands with Sen. Lindsey Graham and other fellow Senators after the Senate voted and passed a resolution to reopen the government, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 22, 2018 in Washington.more +
"We need a little bit more clarity," Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said, to the agreement of some Republicans.
"I would encourage [McConnell] to try to [get firmer language,]" said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. "If [Democrats] can get language they're comfortable with, I think we'll have the government open."
While Flake characterized McConnell's effort as a "pretty high profile promise," and some Democrats said that they felt additionally encouraged Monday, it was far from certain that a solution would come.
"I was more negative yesterday, last night, than I was today," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who said she thought the impasse could be resolved in "a day or two."
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is holding a daily press briefing at 1:30 p.m., when she will likely weigh in on the vote and provide a response from the White House.
Senator Tim Kaine waits to speak to a reporter on Capitol Hill after the Senate voted to fund the US government, Jan. 22, 2018 in Washington.more +
"First and foremost we have to reopen our government. We have to fund our government. As soon as that is done, we're more than happy to negotiate on responsible immigration reform," she said.
The blame game was in full force this weekend, with President Donald Trump tweeting about how the shutdown began with the first anniversary of his inauguration: "Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown," he wrote.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., weighed in that the president is not being well-served by staff in the negotiations over immigration issues that are key to resolving the impasse and reopening the government.
ABC News' David Wright asked Graham if he meant Trump's senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, a hardliner on immigration and close adviser on the issue to Trump.
"I'll just tell you his view of immigration has never been in the mainstream of the Senate," Graham said of Miller. "And I think we're never going to get there as long as we embrace concepts that cannot possibly get 60 votes."
The White House hit back, dismissing Graham's comments and calling him an "outlier."
"As long as Senator Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we are going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years," said White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley.
ABC News' Meridith McGraw, Jordyn Phelps, David Caplan and Meghan Keneally contributed to this report.
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