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RE: Visualization, Imagination, and Problem Solving: My dad used to say "Put yourself in their shoes" [DACA, Immigration, etc]
Reading your post I forgot for a minute you had DACA in mind, it seemed like you were writing about the immigration problems in Europe.
One other thing - why do I have the feeling that many of these illegals do not plan to make a living in the US by getting regular jobs, but by other means? The reason I'm asking this - I have both friends and family in the US, all LEGAL law-abiding hard-working citizens and all they got out of the American dream is debts and bills. But as I said they're law-abiding...
We had protests here the other day about DACA and some speakers said they were here undocumented. Essentially they were standing on stage saying they did not obey the laws of our country in order to come here. If we tried that in Mexico or other places we'd end up in jail or worse.
DACA gives free education and social programs to eligible children of immigrants 15 years of age or older with most being 20 or older. The citizens of this country don't have anything like that. Yet we are giving that to people that are not even here legally. That is what the program that is being cancelled grants. People are protesting that.
That kind of makes the legal citizens of this country slaves to the illegals. We must give up our income, property tax, etc to pay for these illegals to have programs that the citizens don't even have.
A lot of people protesting it are also protesting it because so much of their labor is illegal labor. Why are they protesting? They pay them under the table and don't have to pay attention to minimum wage laws or anything like that.
Strangely this was the same thing that they argued about when we were getting rid of slavery. You can't get rid of their inexpensive labor!!!!
Simple... enforce immigration, follow the laws, and get rid of minimum wage.
If citizens are willing to work for a lower wage that should be between them and their employer. Yet if you can't find anyone to work for you at that wage then that's the employer's problem and it is not justification for allowing illegals here who will work for less.
A lot of them actually send that money back to Mexico where it purchases a lot more than the dollars do here.
I don't know anyone against LEGAL immigration. Yet that is how those that don't like the cancellation of DACA, talking about border walls, etc.
Those things are ONLY a threat to those who break the laws. They are no threat to people who come here legally.
So anyone protesting the removal of DACA (not even constitutionally passed), the protecting of our borders, and the deportation of people that are here illegally are basically subjectively deciding when it is okay to break the law.
Yet DACA makes it worse. That makes it so people like you and I pay for those people that are here illegally to get education and social help that is not even available to you, and I, or our children.