DHS SEC. Markwayne Mullin Floats Deal to Give Citizenship to Illegal Aliens Protected by Obama’s DACA

A former GOP legislator who once opposed any form of amnesty for illegal immigrants is now saying that maybe a little bit is not so bad, as long as it has a different label.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Monday that he would not oppose new laws to give permanent legal status to the children of illegal immigrants who sashayed over the border as part of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to Politico.

In that program, children whose parents entered the U.S. illegally would be allowed to remain without being deported, assuming they did not break the law.

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He said President Donald Trump, who at various times has been supportive of those who entered the U.S. under DACA and at other times wanted to kill the program, said he should talk over the concept.

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Mullin drew a semantic line in the sand.

“Amnesty is never going to be a solution. We’re never going to allow amnesty to happen. So that’s a full stop,” he said.

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As noted by Heritage Action, Mullin, while a Republican member of Congress from Oklahaoma, voted against the Dream Act in 2021, that, Heritage Action noted, was intended to “codify and expand amnesty granted by the Obama administration’s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by allowing so-called Dreamers (illegal aliens who came to the U.S. before the age of 18) and those illegally present who have been granted Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure to permanently avoid deportation, obtain a pathway to citizenship, and full voting rights.”

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