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Refusal to deport DACAs is defacto citizenship.

Anyone who thinks that including a prohibition on letting them stay without making them citizens will last is a fool.

That “prohibition” will be eliminated as soon as Ryan and McConnell can phone Pelosi and Schumer to cut a deal.

Refusal to deport DACAs is defacto citizenship.

It's actually worse than that. Let's say a DACA deal gets done and anyone who was brought here by their parents before they were age 18 gets to stay (under whatever conditions, which I'll get to in a moment). The real question that the intrepid reporters need to ask is: "What about all the other non-DACA people who are here illegally? Can we infer that they're not allowed to stay, and will be summarily rounded up and deported?" The answer to that will be "Well, umm, no." So, the DACA exemption is false on the face of it. The only illegals who will ever get deported are felons, in my opinion.

So, how do you deal with the situation? There are several cards Trump can play in the negotiation. 1. You expose democrat hypocrisy. They claim they just want these poor people to be able to stay here and not separate families. Great. They can stay, but their penalty for breaking the law is they will never be given the right to vote. Period. That goes for DACA and non-DACA illegals. The Dems will squeal, but the hypocrisy will be clear. 2. You offer permanent residence (not citizenship) to any and all illegals who will volunteer to build the wall. You use illegals to build the wall, unpaid. 3. You offer full-blown citizenship to any illegals who serve 8 years in the US military. That's what I'd do, anyway.