DACA Recipients are Bernie Madoff's children; Should they be rewarded?

“Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff   is an American scam artist ...... He is …. the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Prosecutors estimated the size of the fraud to be $64.8 billion, based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff's 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008”

Bernie Madoff scammed America and became a billionaire. When the Reckoning came, his children were not rewarded for being the children of a scam artist, but were held to account for their father’s scam. One child committed suicide; one died early from stress induced cancer, one went to prison, all in all, a sad, Shakespearean tragic ending.

But when you scam America, your life, and the lives of your children become a Greek tragedy, worthy of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes. American society, in its collective wisdom, has decided that the children of crooks, and scam artists and claim jumpers should not benefit  from the crimes of their parents.

It is a wise policy.

“The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was an American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors, and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permits.”

DACA was mandated, by decree, by former President Obama; in September, 2017, President Trump ended DACA, unless Congresss passed a bill to save it by March, 2018.

DACA recipients were and are children of illegal aliens, who were brought to America by their parents; parents who made a conscious decision to illegally come to America, to scam American society out of resources, including health care and education,  and, to claim jump on American citizenship.

The question is, should DACA recipients benefit from the claim jumping of their parents?

Some people think so: “CHICAGO — When Yuriana Aguilar gathers for the holidays with her family in California….That’s what makes this year’s Christmas celebration so bittersweet, full of uncertainty about what the holiday could look like next year.

While the 28-year-old is looking forward to seeing her family, she also is thinking about the looming end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which she registered for in 2012. She came to the country from Mexico at age 5 with her parents.

“It’s a big shadow during the holidays,” she said…..About 800,000 people now are protected from deportation and allowed to work by DACA.That leaves many families worrying this could be their last Christmas together in the only country Dreamers have ever really known as they gather to celebrate the holiday.

…Trump’s decision will take effect in March, a delay that was meant to give Congress six months to come up with a permanent legislative solution. But it could take up to seven months to implement any legislation, the National Immigration Forum has estimated.After March 5, about 1,000 people a day will lose the protections DACA gave them for staying and working in the country, according to the forum.

…The name Dreamer comes from the DREAM Act, a bill with that goal that has been introduced but never passed into law.

….. Liz Dong, an advisory board member at Voices of Christian Dreamers .Dong, 28, is a DACA recipient who came to the U.S. from China when she was 10. She lives in the Chicago suburbs, where she works in immigration advocacy on staff at World Relief…

…One DACA recipient who now has a family of her own is Xochitlh Arvizu, 27, who calls her son, Maximiliano Garcia, “our little miracle.”

After Arvizu qualified for DACA in 2012, a mentor invited her to apply for a position with Lighthouse Community Center in Santa Ana, Calif., a ministry of Mariners Church. She had come to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 7.With the health insurance from her new job, she visited a doctor and quickly ended up in surgery for a tumor on one of her ovaries. Doctors weren’t sure she would be able to have children, she said, and “that’s where faith kicked in.”

Maximiliano turned 1 earlier this month…..

But with DACA ending, it made it hard for Arvizu and her husband, Mario Garcia, also a DACA recipient, to plan their son’s birthday party: Should they do something big, or just have a little cake to save money in case their jobs disappear with their protected status?...All she wants, she said, is for DACA recipients to have the opportunity to become citizens, to “continue the work of God — what God has called us to do and our purpose in our lives here in the States….USA TODAY.”.

This Blogger will stipulate he is not as good a Christian as Christian Dreamers because, like many native born Americans, he has done many un-Christian things to help the Republic survive. But he does remember:”Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."

DREAMERS and their Christian parents should render unto Caesar(the Republic), respect for Caesar’s immigration laws.

“….“The deadline is March, as far as I understand it,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday at a press conference. “We’ve got other deadlines in front of that, like fiscal year deadlines and appropriation deadlines.”

But for Juan Navarro, 25, it is an emergency, and the deadline is well before March. He is set to lose deportation protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program within weeks, potentially forcing him out of his job, his health insurance and his graduate school studies.

Navarro is one of thousands of so-called Dreamers, or young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, who could soon be ― or have already been ― affected by President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the DACA program and years of Republican opposition in Congress to bills that would grant them legal status. Trump, Ryan and McConnell insist they have until March to act because the president’s decision allowed DACA recipients whose status was set to expire before then to apply for renewal of the two-year protections.

They imply it won’t make a difference whether they do something now ― as Democrats and some Republicans have demanded ― or later. But in the meantime, Dreamers are already losing status. Some, like Navarro, are waiting for renewal applications that might not come through in time. Others were eligible to apply to renew their status but didn’t get a $495 fee and application in to the government in the four weeks they were given. While Congress delays, an estimated 122 DACA recipients per day lose their status, according to the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

Waiting is doing damage to Dreamers’ lives, Navarro said.

“Congress just doesn’t realize the impact this is continuing to have, the mental damage that it’s causing, the anxiety that it’s causing within the community,” he said.

Navarro has lived in Oregon since he was three years old, when his parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico for medical treatment for cerebral palsy, which left him unable to walk. They stayed in the country as he underwent surgeries and physical therapy. Navarro walked without assistance for the first time when he was 15.

He applied for and received DACA for the first time in 2012, granting him a two-year work permit and making him eligible for in-state tuition. That allowed Navarro to finish a community college degree, then a bachelor’s, and now enroll in a two-year graduate study program that he started this semester, which comes with a job and health insurance he uses for physical therapy. Navarro’s goal is to work in student services at a university.

….“To have this happen my first term of grad school and having to fight for my permit while I’m in grad school is stressful at another level,” he said. “In theory you should just devote your life to studies, but that’s not the case, because after that you’ve got to worry about what thing the Trump administration is going to do.”………..huff post”

Over and over again as this Blogger reads the stories of DREAMERS, he is shocked about how many came to America with medical problems, most often severe medical problems, perhaps a plurality of them. Americans have done enough for DREAMERS.

“State Reps. Neal Collins, R-Easley, and Will Wheeler, D-Bishopville, have pre-filed legislation for the upcoming session that would allow DACA recipients to pay in-state tuition at South Carolina public colleges, apply for scholarships and obtain occupational licenses from state regulators.

….at least 21 states already provide in-state tuition for undocumented students, though some have moved to revoke the policy.

….But from a fiscally conservative standpoint, Collins argued that investing in DACA recipients at a young age by giving them a public education then cutting them off from access to jobs once they graduate high school makes little sense. 

"I would hope that, even as conservatives, we can say we're not going to invest over $100,000 in a child over 13 years and then say they can't pursue the American dream," Collins said…CHARLESTON POST COURIER.”.

This Blogger cannot understand Rep. Collins’ logic; the fact that the American taxpayer was scammed out of $100,000 by the parents of DREAMERS, does not mean that the American taxpayer should be open to being scammed by the DREAMERS themselves.

There is a possibility of a federal government shutdown on January 20, 2018;to prevent it Senate Republicans will need 60 votes. They have 51.

“….Democrats also want a plan that allows immigrants eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to remain in the United States. Trump's immigration plan would end the program in the spring if Congress doesn't develop a permanent fix.

....Here are the major departments that get shut down. 

• Commerce, except National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Education.
• Energy. Functions that oversee the safety of the nation's nuclear arsenal, dams and transmission lines remain open.
• Environmental Protection Agency.
• Food and Drug Administration.
• Health and Human Services.
• Housing and Urban Development.
• Interior, including National Parks.
• Internal Revenue Service.
• Labor, including Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• NASA.
• National Institute of Health.
• Smithsonian.....….the balance.”

Rep.Luis Gutierrez(D-Illinois) is a leading advocate for shutting down America's government for DACA recipients; millions upon millions of  Puerto Ricans, AMERICAN CITIZENS, are still suffering hurricane PTSD, some without electricity, some without medical resources; some afflicted with shortages of food. Mr. Gutierrez, a Puerto Rican himself, did not threaten to close down the American government because of the plight of Puerto Ricans, American citizens, but he did threaten to shut down the American government for Bernie Madoff's figurative children,DACA recipients.

Obviously the  plight of Americans holds no value for DACA advocates. It is inconceivable  that an American, in good conscience, would place the interests of Bernie Madoff's children above the sufferings of fellow Americans. There is nothing wrong for Americans, in America, to place the laws and needs of Americans, including Puerto Ricans, first in America.

Rewarding  DACA recipients is TOPSY TURVY madness.

This Blogger is acutely aware of the enormity of the personal tragedies which will be inflicted upon DACA recipients when DACA is rescinded; but the American people are not responsible for those coming tragedies. Those who defend territoriality are never responsible for the tragedies caused by intruders; it is the intruder, the interloper, the claim jumper who  bears total responsibility for any tragedy  occurring in the defense of sovereignty. Those responsible for the coming tragedies are the parents of DREAMERS, who inflicted a moral hazard on their children in pursuit of scamming America.

The Roman republic fell because that  Republic was incapable of making rational decisions insuring its survival. Rewarding DACA recipients is a step in revisiting the demise of Republics.