I have a lot of sympathy for people brought into America as children and who have grown up in America. Far as I am concerned, we ought to treat them as if they were born in the US. Make 'em citizens.
For all the talk from the newsies about DACA, we have few details. Such as cutoff age for membership. Clearly children brought into the country at age 6 and under ought to count. Maybe age 12 and under. Age 21 and over, clearly should not count, we reckon 21 to be the age of majority. What about teenagers between 12 and 21? For all the newsie babbling on the tube, you would think someone would have mentioned an age limit by now.
Detail. Is anything else required to gain the privileges of DACA status? Graduation from an American high school? Graduation from college? Good behavior, such as a clean criminal record? Or perhaps just no felony convictions? Reasonable English language skills? Holding a real job in the private sector? Marriage? children?
Detail. Just what benefits come from DACA status? Immediate US citizenship? a green card? some kind of path to citizenship? Eligible to vote? US driver's licenses? Permission to stay in the US for say five years? Or ten years? Or for life? I have not heard a word about this detail from the newsies either.
Detail. Do we offer DACA status to children arriving in the future?
I think we citizens deserve these details. Clearly the newsies and the Democrats don't think so.
Bottom line, our country needs more good decent citizens. We ought to work to keep the DACA cases of good decent people as citizens and throw the book at gang members, drug runners, bus hijackers, San Francisco shooters, and Islamist terrorists.
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