Anyone here on DACA isn't strictly illegal anymore. They have documents and they can work legally for two years. That status is [supposed to be] revoked if they are convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors. That already was effectively the amnesty in terms of looking the other way on the illegal entry.
The reasonable legislative fix is:
No new issuance (get rid of the 2023 Dream Act)
You can keep renewing if you're in good standing, while you wait for your citizenship application to be processed. With no deliberate "delays" in handling their applications.
If you don't apply for citizenship or if your application is rejected, no renewal. Leave before your two years is up or get deported.
No eligibility for any gibs. Including state and local gibs.
"Your parents fucked you over, keep your nose clean and you can stay while the paperwork finishes." And if they feel like being activists, be quick to find three misdemeanors. Bye bye.
It was a garbage policy to start with, but trying to alter it retroactively is just going to get bogged down in lawfare. Stop the problem going forward and no free citizenship. That's a decent enough fix.
Anyone here on DACA isn't strictly illegal anymore.
While I appreciate that you voiced the unpopular view, isn't this the argument that they made to advance their claim that the illegal Haitians were not illegal - that Biden waved a magic wand and made them 'not illegal'?
I don't think they're analogous. I opposed DACA in 2012 and I oppose what Biden did with the Haitians. But there's a practical limit on how far you can reasonably go back. Trying to unring a bell from 12 years ago is a fool's errand and there's far more pressing uses for the enforcement resources. It's basically a work-visa program. Policy should be no new ones and if they break the conditions, they're gone... but we uphold the terms that were set out. And this is a sticking point - it should not provide any benefit to the parents. No special consideration, no rewards, no incentives for crashing the border in the first place. They get deported.
Biden's shit was 6 months ago. it would be less of a problem to go back on. But the easier route is to kill the entire TPS program and make sure that on Feb 3, 2026 they all have to go back. The only risk there is how many kids they can pump out in a year. Ending birthright citizenship is a whole issue of its own.
Anyone here on DACA isn't strictly illegal anymore. They have documents and they can work legally for two years. That status is [supposed to be] revoked if they are convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors. That already was effectively the amnesty in terms of looking the other way on the illegal entry.
The reasonable legislative fix is:
"Your parents fucked you over, keep your nose clean and you can stay while the paperwork finishes." And if they feel like being activists, be quick to find three misdemeanors. Bye bye.
It was a garbage policy to start with, but trying to alter it retroactively is just going to get bogged down in lawfare. Stop the problem going forward and no free citizenship. That's a decent enough fix.
While I appreciate that you voiced the unpopular view, isn't this the argument that they made to advance their claim that the illegal Haitians were not illegal - that Biden waved a magic wand and made them 'not illegal'?
I don't think they're analogous. I opposed DACA in 2012 and I oppose what Biden did with the Haitians. But there's a practical limit on how far you can reasonably go back. Trying to unring a bell from 12 years ago is a fool's errand and there's far more pressing uses for the enforcement resources. It's basically a work-visa program. Policy should be no new ones and if they break the conditions, they're gone... but we uphold the terms that were set out. And this is a sticking point - it should not provide any benefit to the parents. No special consideration, no rewards, no incentives for crashing the border in the first place. They get deported.
Biden's shit was 6 months ago. it would be less of a problem to go back on. But the easier route is to kill the entire TPS program and make sure that on Feb 3, 2026 they all have to go back. The only risk there is how many kids they can pump out in a year. Ending birthright citizenship is a whole issue of its own.