Donald Trump is right: Congress should pass DACA
The repeated failure to pass bills has left America with immigration laws that are unenforceable
Sep 9th 2017
IF YOU could design people in a laboratory to be an adornment to America they would look like the recipients of DACA. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive action issued in 2012 by Barack Obama to protect most of those who were brought to the country as children from deportation, covers about 800,000 people. They are a high-achieving lot. More than 90% of those now aged over 25 are employed; they create businesses at twice the rate of the public as a whole; many have spouses and children who are citizens. They are American in every sense bar the bureaucratic one.
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21728647-repeated-failure-pass-bills-has-left-america-immigration-laws-are
