The Patriot Post® · Unjust Adminsitrative Amnesty

Jim DeMint: “Administrative amnesty is unjust. The United States already admits around a million legal permanent immigrants a year, more than any other nation in the world. They have waited their turn, followed the rules and worked hard to get here. If we allow certain people to skip the line – rewarding them for breaking the rules – we are no longer a nation of equals: we become a nation of favoritism. This is unfair to both legal immigrants and to all law-abiding Americans. It is also costly. The administrative costs of DACA are already high; adding five million more people onto the caseload will be a drain on taxpayer dollars. In addition, illegal immigration puts a huge strain on public social services: Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, while a proponent of legal immigration, noted that the welfare state and open borders cannot coexist.”