[kmeisthax]

DACA is a workaround for people who are functionally "American" but not legally so. Them moving "back to Mexico" would work out about as well as telling a bunch of people working in car factories to move to Mexico to keep their job.

Also, the law itself is a slap in the face to everyone who made the decision to follow and respect the law. Immigration law is deliberately designed to be at least a little dehumanizing to the immigrant: it's NIMBYism, but for people instead of duplexes. The only thing that we should be giving the people who followed the law is an apology for having to go through such a nightmare. We absolutely should not retain such a restrictive system purely for the sake of making people who followed it feel like their sunk costs went into something.