Practically speaking, it is much easier to allow DACA three years of work permits while negotiating their status,. The alternative given to me yesterday was Elion Gonzalez style deportation. That took a dozen heavily armed federal agents. Are we going to do that for a miillion DACA? No, the effort is better spent on illegal illegals and prosecuting employers etc. That will reduce the largest numbers, in the millions by self-deportation (there has been a lot of that already).
Then we also need to reform the legal immigration system. That currently allows a million mostly unqualified immigrants every year. A million is the same number as the DACA.
DACA is tied up in the Supreme Court until Summer 2020. The Supremes decided last week not to take up the case this year. So offering a 3 year extention is really only 18 months more than it otherwise would have been, IF WE WIN THE CASE which is very questionable. Lefty Roberts will make sure to not deport these kids. You can bet on it.
The people saying this is amnesty are trolls. There’s no pathway to citizenship. It’s basically 3 years of the status quo.
Regardless, it’s a non-starter with democrats. This charade will go on another week or two with Trump making proposals to Democrats to seem reasonable to moderates and independents and will continually get shot down. Then he will declare a national emergency and the shut down will end.
The wall will be tied up in court for 2 years and the 2020 Election will decide its fate.
Everything is all PR right now so getting excited about proposals that are going nowhere is silly. Nothing is going to happen because Nancy is not interested in fixing DACA. She likes the issue in 2020 of Trump deporting these kids. It plays well with suburban women and hurts Trump.