Seven of the Many Problems with Trump ’s Immigration Principles

The White House releaseda list of immigration priorities for Congress yesterday. These ideas would render a broken immigration system even more dysfunctional, and the president ’s team justifies these expensive and unnecessary proposals with distortions and falsehoods. President Trump may never have reviewed them, so we should not necessarily view these ideas as set in stone, but they do demonstrate how farcertain members of the administration are willing to go to underminethe growing bipartisan consensus on allowing young undocumented immigrants to stay.Here are some problems with the priorities:1) Not a single pro-immigrant plank: When the White House first announced that it would put together this list, itexplicitly tied it to a deal with the Democrats on DACA. Yet these new principles fail to mention anything about DACA or the Dreamers, despite President Trump ’spublic endorsement of legalization for them andhis personal efforts to obtain a deal on the issue. LegislativeDACA—which is the only humane outcome for peoplewho are Americans in every sense that matters —wouldincrease tax revenue, grow the economy, and lower enforcement costs. Beyond DACA, the proposals also will not fix any ofthe infuriating and irrational aspects of America ’s legal immigration system. Indeed, it will make them all worse.2) An expensive ugly border wall: President Trump ’s top priority is the “construction of a wall along the southern border of the United States.” This gigantic ...
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