We are coming up to a major game of chicken over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Led by Texas and nine other states, critics of DACA have told the Trump administration to end it or defend it in court.
There are nearly 790,000 reasons to keep it alive.
That’s how many recipients under age 30, often referred to as “Dreamers,” have been allowed to live, work and attend college in the U.S.
They don’t get citizenship or legal status, but they can be free of the anxiety of possible deportation—and they can become real contributors to American society.
These should be the people Trump would prefer as immigrants to the U.S., given his talk of desiring a merit-based immigration. Is there anything better than young people who—through no fault of their own–came to the U.S. as children, who then decided to attain an education and build their lives in this country?
