Not only that, but DACA rewards people for breaking the law, which is bullstuff. I don't care what kind of heartstring tugging story a "dreamer" has, the fact of the matter is you're an illegal citizen. The only ones that should be handed citizenship are ones that came here without any will of their own.
The issue here is that you don't actually understand how DACA works. The program affords legal status to people who were brought to the United States at a very young age by their parents. It doesn't 'reward people for breaking the law' because the parents are still considered criminals. It exists so that we don't have to send people back to a country they've never even known, while they've been productive, law-abiding members of our society throughout their entire life.
In other words, every single dreamer is 'one that came here without any will of their own'. That's the whole point of the program.
If their parents came here with them while they were still children - and I mean children, not like 11, 12, 13+ year olds - then we should give them a proper path to citizenship. All DACA does is kick the can down the road every two years. Otherwise, they need to go.
But you know that this is impossible because of Republican opposition. Dreamers are ineligible for a green card, which means they can't get legal citizenship. Democrats would be fine with putting in a path to citizenship but it's people from your cant who are blockading it at every step.
The ideal of 'let's put in a legal path to citizenship' is bullstuff if nobody wants to do it. If you end a program that helps good, hard-working immigrants, you are kicking them in the teeth while doing nothing to improve their path to legal status. Sugarcoating it with some footnote about 'providing a proper path to citizenship' is bullstuff and you know it. Say what you mean, not what you think sounds good.
Illegals are illegals, and at the end of the day they should be deported, and the only reason we don't deport all of them are logistics, the backlash the government would get from deporting millions of people, and the omnipresent bullstuff excuse "WHO'S GONNA PICK OUR PRODUCE" which is honestly the most ridiculous thing ever, but what can you expect from the same party that was pro-slavery a couple hundred years ago.
Honestly I'm a million times more proud to subscribe to Democrat ideals rather than the party that re-instituted Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement in the form of drug laws less than forty years ago.
Plus, we all know that there was a polar switch in ideals back in the 1960s, so that's additionally kinda awkward?
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