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AJC vs AJC – changing stats tracking DACA amnesty winners in Georgia #DDS

 

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As we have asked before: How many illegal aliens are there in Georgia with Obama’s executive DACA amnesty?

On October 6, the AJC’s immigration story teller [2] Jeremy Redmon cited a September 4 USCIS report [2] that put the number of DACA illegals in Georgia at 21,600.

“That represents a little more than 2 percent of the 689,800 people who were participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, as of Sept. 4, according to a recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services report [3]. In all, there are 21,600 DACA recipients in Georgia.”

But in an October 13 DACA weeper [4], another AJC reporter, Vanessa McCray, tells us the number of DACA in Georgia is now 24,000:

“He is one of nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came here as children, including about 24,000 in Georgia, whose American way of life is endangered unless President Donald Trump and Congress reach a deal to extend DACA.”

I sent a note of inquiry to McCray, but AJC reporters seldom reply.

A September 5 story from Redmon [5] put the number at “24,135” as of last March:

“As of March, 24,135 people in the state have been granted a temporary reprieve from deportation and work permits through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA [6].”

Huh.