09-14-2017, 12:32 PM
(09-14-2017, 10:31 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Also, they don't qualify because they were brought here illegally. So kids who only know the US as a home would have to leave the US and wait months or years to become citizens.
DACA gave them a legal status as residents. If it went a step forward and gave them a pathway to citizenship, they would most likely take it.
This is the point a lot of people tend to miss when talking about this. They would have to leave the country, the only one they have known as home, to go somewhere else where they likely have no support structure in place, may not speak the language, etc., in order to then try to come back in legally. For someone that was brought here with no choice in the matter, that seems an illogical process to force them into.
