Here are my questions/issues with the DACA debate....
1) They are here illegally and that’s a bad precedent to acquiesce to. However, we’re talking about 800,000 people by most reports; an immaterial amount of people compared to the US population.
2) Most of them are hard working people that have integrated to the US society and only know the US as a home.
3) If they have ANY sort of criminal record, deport them immediately.
4) Wouldn’t the cost of deporting all of them, in terms of actual money, logistics, administration, and PR cost too can’t be ignored, make it NOT worth it?
5) I am NOT for amnesty. But the above could be a 1 time FIX to this issue, IF IF IF IF IF, we prevent it from happening again. So the only way to do that is to build the wall, hire/train more border agents, increase surveillance, etc.
If all that were done, and Congress could authorize it, couldn’t we swallow a compromise that makes everyone look good and allows these people to stay and continue their lives?
I’m strongly in favor of solid borders (such as they are) but the DACA people are a unique issue that needs to be dealt with uniquely.
The fact that these DACA people are such a small number compared to the U.S. population is what makes any discussion of this issue in Congress a clear case of misplaced priorities.
1) that 800,000 number will become over 2 million.
2) they all speak Spanish
3) DACA allows them 3 misdemeanors
4) the rule of law is priceless
%) the “one time” fix was supposed to be the 1986 amnesty that has resulted in 10 times the number of illegal aliens.
Another will have a similar effect.
Is that you Ted?