Here’s what DACA is: vital protection from deportation, allowing immigrant youth to work legally so they can support their families in the only country they’ve ever called home. Here’s what DACA isn’t: “amnesty,” free college, and government freebies. In fact, immigrant youth pay to get into the program. Imagine trying to raise a $495 application fee when you don’t have permission to work legally in the first place. In working to discredit the program and undocumented immigrant youth, Donald Trump and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III have pushed numerous racist lies and misconceptions, including claims that DACA hurts U.S.-born taxpayers. But undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion annually in state and local taxes, while “DACA recipients have paid about $2 billion in state and local taxes,” writes CNN’s Nicole Chavez in her piece dunking several DACA myths: Belen Sisa, a political science student at Arizona State University, drew widespread attention in March after she posted a photo of her holding up her tax returns. "MYTH BUSTER: I, an undocumented immigrant, just filed my taxes and PAID $300 to the state of Arizona," Sisa wrote. She also had a message for President Donald Trump, "Wanna tell me again how I should be deported, contribute nothing and only leech off this country while the 1% wealthiest people in this country steal from you everyday?" Good question.
Some Of The Biggest Daca Myths Get Debunked
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Mon, 09/11/2017 - 9:23am
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