OPINION:
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: America doesn’t ’owe’ “Dreamers” anything. It’s time that those who have benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program admit they are in the illegal jackpot because their interloper parents put them there. While non-citizens in America are lawfully granted certain protections under our laws, that does not give them the right to make demands of any kind on our country or our legislators (no matter how weak or corrupt those legislators may be).
The parents of Dreamers always bleat that they came here to work, so the generous deal America makes is to allow the innocent Dreamers and their criminal parents to become permanent foreign workers. We issue them green cards bearing red “W” watermarks. In return, they officially renounce any claim to U.S. citizenship.
However, in the case of the Dreamers only, we do offer a pathway to U.S. citizenship: four years of honorable service in either America’s armed forces or the Peace Corps. If this path is chosen, the criminal parents of Dreamers may remain for as long as their children reside in America.
K.J. DOLNEY
Columbia, S.C.
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