DACA

It i’s truly pathetic that you have to turn to a discussion group on TUSCL to read something rational about DACA. But that’s how crappy and distorted the mainstream news media coverage has become (and that includes CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times and all of the Fox News channels).

I personally believe that DACA represents a humane policy for addressing the status of people who, through no fault of their own, were brought across the border into the USA as children and who grew up as Americans. They dress, sound, act and live like the rest of us in America. They pay taxes and even serve in the American military. It would be cruel to force them to “return” to a country they don’t even know and never considered home.

But the question currently before the Supreme Court is NOT whether DACA is a humane or wise policy. The narrow question before the Supreme Court is whether any president (including the current orange one) has the authority to modify or rescind the DACA program.

Despite my conviction that DACA is a humane and wise program, I sincerely believe that the correct answer to the question before the Supreme Court is that a president (even the current carnival clown who routinely appears in public wearing what looks like an old piece of refrigerator insulation as a hairpiece) DOES have the authority to modify or rescind DACA.

If the Supreme Court were to uphold DACA because revoking it would be inhumane, then I (as a “true conservative” - not the brain-dead, RINO Trump kind) would be thoroughly outraged.

The correct result is that the Supreme Court upholds the DACA rescission and then the legislative branch passes sensible immigration reform including appropriate measures dealing with people who have grown up in America, gone to American schools, paid American taxes and even served in the American military even though they were brought here illegally as children.