I have a genuine question for the GOP lifers around here, how many immigrants that live here illegally have you personally ever met? Have any of them been "dreamers"? I know a lot of you don't live in the Southwest where Mexican-American culture is the norm, as a child of 2 Mexican immigrants (mother legal resident then later citizen, father completely illegal, now a citizen) what about them intimidate you so much?
I've met in my 30 years of life hundreds of undocumented immigrants, many of which my family and church helped to sponsor to get citizenship or residency here in the states. Those people have been some of the hardest working, devoted, and morally sound individuals I've had the pleasure of meeting. Many of their children were covered by the DACA, and every single one of them that I knew were stellar students and are now in college working towards degrees that will help a lot of people in the future (biomedical, engineering, health care). If there's anything to fear its that these people embody the true American dream, and the supposed patriots around here are embarrassed that brown people come to this country and find success in just a single generation through hard work. Yes some that come here are criminals, there is a certain percentage of all humanity that are pieces of shit regardless of color or country of origin. There's a ton already in this country that are here legally and we aren't discussing shipping them off to somewhere else.
This whole letter of the law argument is about as weak of an argument that can be had. You vote in elected officials who have blatant disregard for the letter of law, you have a Commander in Chief who just pardoned a racist old man who literally ignored the letter of the law after blatantly violating the constitutional rights of citizens he was supposed to protect. There are many absurd, immoral, and illogical laws that exist, especially at the state level. The way I was educated, when political means of abolishing outdated or badly created laws breaks down, as a citizen you exercise civil disobedience as a last resort. Marijuana legalization comes to mind, while still illegal federally lots of PD's and state's find the classification ridiculous and choose not to enforce the full penalty of the law. If enough local governments tell the federal government that they refuse to enact these laws, maybe our congress can get it's shit together and put together a bill that will actually help someone other than themselves get reelected.
/endrant