More than 600,000 Mexican Dreamers who are DACA recipients are caught between a government that uses them as scapegoats and bargaining chips to get federal funds from US Congress to build a wall; and a government that makes them empty promises — and in reality counts on them staying where they are.
Dreamers are young immigrants who arrived to the US before turning 15 years old, were younger than 31 years old as of June 15th 2012, and have lived continuously in the US since June 2007. Right now, Dreamers and DACA are at the center of the political debate in the US. Any informed discussion on this topic should start with the fact that Dreamers (not only Mexican Dreamers) are valuable members of society. First and foremost, there is no evidence that Dreamers are “taking jobs from ‘Americans’”. In addition they pay more taxes than the social benefits they get, which is not a bad deal for US taxpayers. Dreamers are not lowering wages. In fact, giving immigrants DACA-type status can raise the wage for other workers in similar positions. To sum up, from an economic point of view terminating DACA is nonsense. And the decision makes no sense from the social perspective either. Full story.
