Senate Homeland Security chairman blames DACA and court decisions for staggering border surge
by Susan Ferrechio
| March 29, 2019 04:28 PM
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said an Obama-era immigration policy change and a 2015 court ruling are behind the astronomical surge in illegal immigrants crossing over the southern border.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said illegal immigration surged after 2012, when migrants were lured by President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
The DACA program allowed young people who came to the country illegally as children to remain in the country legally and obtain work permits and some benefits.
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