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by ginger123 2924 days ago
In my opinion, for decades politicians of this country tacitly allowed people to come to this country without adequate paperwork. Now asking them to go back is impractical and cruel. People who are here should be able to conduct their lives without the fear of getting arrested or deported while conducting everyday activities like going to dropping their kids to school or commuting to work. Let us be compassionate and give everyone already here a path to citizenship.

Just like President Obama did for DACA there should be a cutoff date for a path to citizenship. Once the cutoff date is reached we should deport new undocumented immigrants who don't have a legitimate asylum claim.

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Honestly I'm fine with people who illegally immigrated to just have a chance to square themselves with the law and be legal without a path to citizenship, then giving citizenship to their children. They did break the law so I think it's fair to have consequences. But they don't need to be afraid of getting deported from the place they've lived the last 20 years.