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vincentML -> RE: US scraps young undocumented immigrants scheme (9/5/2017 4:24:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Made2Obey
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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
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ORIGINAL: Made2Obey
500,000 undocumented homeowners? Renters maybe, but likely not owners. It's tough to get a mortgage without documentation, and most undocumented wouldn't arrive with sufficient cash to buy a home in the Houston area.
What will likely become of them is that they will salvage whatever they can and then move to another sanctuary city.
Dreamers were given certain identity documents, as long as they continued to qualify for the program and renew their status, that let them buy homes, among other things.
They do not live in sanctuary cities. There is no need for them to. They are protected from deportation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/american-dream-after-qualifying-daca-young-immigrants-buy-homes-n475666
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allows qualified undocumented young immigrants brought to the United States as young children to gain temporary protection from deportation. Though it does not put young immigrants on a path to legalization, it gives them the chance to apply for a work permit and a social security number and renew their DACA status every two years.
Ariza bought her house after getting approved for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program Obama launched in 2012 that allows qualified undocumented young immigrants brought to the United States as young children to gain temporary protection from deportation. Though it does not put young immigrants on a path to legalization, it gives them the chance to apply for a work permit and a social security number and renew their DACA status every two years.
The program has allowed young immigrants to attend college, get jobs and obtain driver's licenses, among other things.
Even before DACA was announced, Ariza had already been preparing to buy a house. She began working and building up her credit at age 16, paid her way through college and saved money for a house down payment.
When she was approved for DACA in 2013, she transferred her credit history, which she built using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), to her new social security number. She also used her psychology degree to get a job working as a home-based service provider for people with developmental disabilities at a non-profit organization called El Valor.
There are only 800,000 qualified dreamers under DACA and their average age is 22. Do you really expect me to believe that 500,000 of them lived in Houston and the surrounding area, and at the age of 22 could afford to own homes. I would guess that given their ages less than 5% of the dreamers are homeowners.
The vast majority of those 500,000 were your everyday illegal and not dreamers.
In any event it is an awful thing to do to innocent young people. I heard the Atty. Gen. prattle on about maintaining the law and order. But justice is cold fish without mercy. Can you imagine being 22 years old and required to go back to some country and culture which you do not remember since you last departed it at age 6 or so? What an awful president we have.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
— The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Mercy and forgiveness are enduring themes that pervade Shakespeare's works.[6][4] The quote is an example of the esteem Shakespeare held for those who showed mercy as expressed in his poetry. Shakespeare presented mercy as a quality most valuable to the most powerful, strongest and highest people in society.[7]
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