The most interesting response to today’s DACA phase-out is not from liberal groups—it’s from conservative groups, such as the libertarian think-tank, Cato Institute.
The organization estimates that terminating DACA and immediately deporting those enrolled in the program would cost the federal government $60 billion, and would reduce economic growth by $280 billion in the next 10 years.
Their reasoning: “The deportation of DACA participants would cost the American economy billions of dollars, as well as billions of tax dollars foregone while doing little to address the true concerns that Americans may have about unauthorized immigrants.”
The talk we are hearing today from the administration that nothing dire will happen to DACA children and young adults is belied by this analysis by Cato (quoting below from https://www.cato.org/blog/what-will-happen-trump-kills-daca-timeline-expiration):
DACA has three different aspects—deprioritization for removal, “deferred action,” and employment authorization. First, the DACA memo tells agents to prevent Dreamers who may be eligible for DACA “from being placed into removal proceedings or removed from the United States.” This provision deprioritizes their removal. Under new expansive enforcement priorities laid out in a February 20th memo from then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly, many DACA recipients would be targets for removal if Kelly’s successor rescinds the DACA memo. That’s because the Kelly memo creates “priorities” so expansive that they include nearly all unauthorized immigrants, while specifically rescinding all “conflicting” memos except for the DACA memo and the memo that expanded DACA and provided for the never-implemented DAPA program.
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