Friday, September 1, 2017

DACA

I feel for immigrant kids, who came to the US as children, have grown up here, attended school, maybe college as well.  As a kid, when your folks decide to move to the US without paperwork, what can you do?  If mom and dad go north, you go with them.  At age six, or twelve, or even eighteen you go with mom and dad.  Speaking for myself, I'm in favor of giving a big break to any kids who were brought here at a tender age.
  But, as a matter of process, should not this policy be set by act of Congress, rather than just a president's say so?  Is Congress so dysfunctional that it could not pass a bill giving people brought in the country as children a break?  If for no other reason, we ought to bring a DACA bill to a vote just to see who is for it and who is agin it. 
  For that matter, how about a bill giving full US citizenship to anyone who completes a hitch in the armed forces and wins an honorable discharge?  It worked for the Romans, they would enlist anyone, and they gained Roman citizenship after twenty years service in the legions. 

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