Since its inception, nearly 80K DACA enrollees invested in their education, job training, purchased homes and enlisted in the military in reliance on the understanding that DACA would remain in place and would not be revoked arbitrarily or used as a political bargaining chip.
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DACA recipients and their households pay 5.7B in federal taxes and 3.1B in state and local taxes annual. The termination of
#DACA would place tremendous strain on state and localities that are already under economic pressure.#HomeIsHere@lawyerscommhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/daca-recipients-12-states-pay-over-50-million-taxes-report-n1053041 …Show this thread -
An estimated 20K DACA recipients are employed as educators and many posses in-demand language skills. (There is a shortage of 327K teachers nationally). DACA teachers are a significant asset to our public schools, esp in cities with diverse populations.https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/10/05/u-s-could-lose-an-estimated-20000-teachers-many-bilingual-as-daca-is-phased-out/ …
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An estimate 123K DACA recipients are home-owners and purchased their homes after their
#DACA applications were approved. Thru homeownership, they pay appx 38M a year in property taxes to their communities. These taxes contribute to public education & morehttps://www.zillow.com/research/daca-homeowners-380m-taxes-16629/ …Show this thread
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DACA isn't a law; it was enacted by Executive Action. To say another EA can't supercede that is giving a president the right to make laws, a power enumerated to Congress. If the SC rules that's OK, I can't wait to see the EAs Trump rolls out.
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