On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security seemed prepared to extend an Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,<br />or DACA, which allows the children of illegal immigrants — some 800,000 people in all — to continue to study and work in the United States.<br />The United States has too many people who don’t work hard, don’t believe in God, don’t contribute much to society<br />and don’t appreciate the greatness of the American system.<br />The rate of out-of-wedlock births for United States-born mothers exceeds the rate for foreign-born moms, 42 percent to 33 percent.<br />A study by the Cato Institute notes that nonimmigrants are incarcerated at nearly twice<br />the rate of illegal immigrants, and at more than three times the rate of legal ones.<br />announced that even DACA remains under review — another cruel twist for young immigrants wondering if they’ll<br />be sent back to “home” countries they hardly ever knew, and whose language they might barely even speak.<br />Nonimmigrants start businesses at half the rate of immigrants,<br />and accounted for fewer than half the companies started in Silicon Valley between 1995 and 2005.<br />The decision would have reversed one of Donald Trump’s ugly campaign threats to deport these<br />kids, whose only crime was to have been brought to the United States by their parents.<br />Just 17 percent of the finalists in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search — often called<br />the “Junior Nobel Prize” — were the children of United States-born parents.