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- Fiscal responsibility – taxes: It is a waste of our tax money to detain and deport students, veterans and working people. Time and money spent on targeting DACA recipients is not being spent going after any actual “bad guys,” so this does nothing to make America safer.
- Fiscal responsibility – economy: Economists at the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other sources say that ending DACA “would be incredibly costly to the economy while accomplishing little.” Ending DACA will have a negative impact on the economy due to loss of revenue and interference with the labor market.
- Law and order – DACA recipients have done the right thing by following the regulations to become registered under the program. Targeting them punishes people who are playing by the rules and discourages others from choosing to act lawfully.
- Common sense – You may feel that by giving their children official status, DACA in effect rewards undocumented parents. If this bothers you, you are entitled to your feelings. But in the U.S.A. you are not legally responsible for others’ choices and you cannot be punished because your family member acts unlawfully. DACA children are not responsible for their parents’ actions. They have done nothing but grow up in America to become ordinary students, service members, working people and taxpayers. Regardless of their parents’ choices, spending our tax dollars to deport DACA recipients makes no sense.
