Your “Dreams” are not only morally reprehensible but are also fiscally ill-conceived and pragmatically senseless.
The individuals covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy are people who came into the United States either by illegal entry or ovdrstaying a visa before or on their 16th birthday; most were brought here as children and have grown up in American culture, and many are practically and culturally fluent only in English. To be covered they must be in school or have graduated high school, or enlisted in the military or honorably discharged, and not convicted of a felony, serious misdemeanor, or pose a known threat to national security. They are not ellagible for federal benefits or student aid, but may obtain a work permit and pay payroll taxes.
Despite the oft-reported claim that the order setting the policy by then-President Obama was an abuse of executive power, the discretionary enforcement of immigration law by executive decree is explicit under Article II of the constitution and has a precident going back to at least to Reagan and GHW Bush of selective enforcement and tacit permission in absence of rapid legislative action. Policy direction to executive departments and agencies is within the purview of the Oval Office provided those directives are consistent with the Constitution and prior case law, which DACA is and Trump’s “immigration [don’t call it a Muslim] ban” was not.
Deportation has a cost to the tune of an average of more than $10k per adult deportee (significantly more in the case of minors) while gainfully employed “Dreamers” are a net benefit to the economy. In fact, despite a tiny minority of offenders, immigration is a net economic benefit and provides a pool or workers willing to perform jobs that most natural born American citizens feel are beneath them or provide insufficient wages. There is no economic case for mass deportation, much less that of individuals the government has already spent money to educate and in the case of adults have already provided economic benefit. “Dreamers” who have committed serious crimes or are not gainfully employed can have their status removed and deported just as any other illegal imigrant.
Until the recent hate-filled campaign against people seeking to come to the United States to better their employment opportunities and lives and, when faced with the byzantine and obstructive immigration policy opted for the expedient route of illegal entry, it was widely recognized that immigration is a net positive for the economic health and growth of the nation as it has been since the nation was founded. And as Chronos observes, the DACA policy is supported by majorities on both sides of the aisle. Eliminating DACA is pandering to a minority of insecure people with misdirected anger and political interests seeking to control immigration to their own ends including protecting the influx of cheap foreign goods from competition within the United States. Disestablishing the policy and deporting previously protected individuals, many of whom have little in the ways of families or opportunities in the “home” countries many of them barely remember is not only cruel but also obtuse. It provides no benefit at a cost of tens of millions of dollars and occupying ICE efforts in doing something other than tracking and removing immigrants which might actual pose some significant harm.
In any case, the Democrats do not have enough political power in the legislature to effectively shutdown or significantly slow the political process, which your apparently favored conservative Republicans are doing nicely on their own through infighting and incompetence, and their President who undermines legislative efforts to suppoert his attempts to proclaim vast overarching executive orders which dwarf the decried presidential decrees from the previous administration in scope and presumed authority.
But yes, let us eject the people brought here by their parents as minor children, educated in American schools, who are gainfully employed or serving in the military, who pay taxes without receiving financial benefits accorded to citizens, at significant cost and resources which could be put to efforts more beneficial to the country, all to satisfy some principle about the right and wrong way to immigrate. Because that what this nation is about: officious bureaucracy and politics based upon a manufactured and manipulated cultural identity rather than pragmatic policy.
Stranger