Mr. President, in this article, he spells out in some
detail why some of the myths that were perpetrated by Attorney General
Sessions and others last week need to be explained. One of them is that
DACA somehow incentivized an increase in illegal immigration. Mr. Bier
makes it clear that, when it comes down to it, you cannot arrive in the
United States today and expect to be protected by DACA tomorrow. In
fact, you have to have arrived in the United States at least by June 15
of 2007, more than a decade ago. So to argue that DACA was an incentive
for more immigration in this country is just plain wrong. What about those kids who showed up on the borders years ago,
thousands of them? Well, it turns out that they weren't eligible for
DACA or the Dream Act, and it also turns out that most of them were not
from Mexico but from parts of Central America, which has been
devastated by crime waves and gang activity. The second myth that Mr. Bier addresses is that these DACA
recipients--780,000--are taking jobs away from Americans. What he
points out is that, if you start with the premise that we have a static
amount of jobs in this country--what he calls a ``lump of labor
fallacy''--then, it is dog-eat-dog to fight for those jobs. It turns out that we have an expanding economy, and he proves it by
giving us a statistic.
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