Consider this fanciful refrain which would be heard round the world, the truth be known.
THANKS DACA YOU HAVE SHOWN THE WAY!
We now know you recipients are more moral, more deserving, have a unassailable claim to all the largess in the US just for being there, compared to us schleps. We know that your folks were just more clever in sneaking across the US border to grab the goodies for you. THAT MAKES YOU MORE WORTHY THAN US ‘cuz you’re there.
WAITING IN LINE IS SUCH A DRAG! Sure, a country can only accommodate so many immigrants, and has a right to control its borders, but diminishing our legal chance because your folks elbowed us out, taking our places for you, proves your worth ever more! IT’S A NO-FAULT WORLD AFTER ALL.
We understand it has never been hard to do, getting across. The US has the most lax enforcement just about anywhere WITH THE BEST ENTICEMENTS TO COME ILLEGALLY — YOU GUYS ARE THE ABSOLUTE PROOF POSITIVE!
We get that certain industries and illegal vote mongers love to exploit the system in your country. Heck they are your publicity arm, just look at the dominant media in your country. Of course the incomparable benies and repetitive amnesty means the enticements are always there for the pickings. THAT MAKES YOU MORE WORTHY THAN US AND THEM, AND EVER SO MORALLY SUPERIOR!
Its great to be able to claim to be a US tax payer of some sort. However you benefited from your parents illegal entry, presence, and activities, getting subsidized education and more SO WE WON’T TALK NET. We hear Mafia kids get to use that dodge and keep without recourse what the folks saw to it that they have. IT’S A GREAT COUNTRY, no wonder people make the trip and enter illegally.
Now that most of you are adults (you are adults or the taxpayer claim kind of falls flat doesn’t it) you are better than us cuz of course we would never want to pay taxes in America.
YOU GUYS ARE SO COOL. Most of you speak a second language and employers love that because then they get you to deal with the low wage illegal immigrants who continue to be enticed because of the endless repetition of amnesty which they advocate and exploit. WE WOULD LIKE TO BREAK INTO THAT CIRCLE, but alas, our folks, while desperate for us, are just not that clever. It’s hell to be law abiding.
We know that the truth is that the employers who support DACA are just part of shoving the real costs onto the majority of tax payers, and looking for that good old competitive advantage. NO FAULT THERE, RIGHT! Otherwise they would offer to pick up the tab for your education and all other benefits received. BUT THAT’S JUST NOT WHO THEY ARE.
With what you have going for you we realize it is easy to crank up the sympathy vote, just keep our pictures out of view. But we are a bit dumbfounded by the success of the family unity argument. Talk about illogic. Seriously, your parents spirit you across or send you across as unaccompanied minors, thereby achieving the sympathetic main purpose, maybe sending you to a relative in the US or leaving you with one. In doing so they abandon the majority of relatives in your native country and you by their indifference to laws if they are ever deported. Then, everyone cries that family unification requires that everybody gets to come to the US for family reunification. Talk about an endless one-way troop train.
This fanciful post is intended not as a response to every legitimate argument about DACA but rather the speciousness of the moral arguments often used and the self-interest of the proponents. The free pass DACA proponents get in mainstream media while proponents of serious immigration enforcement are painted as immoral is extensive.
