President Trump did the right thing by
recognizing that President Obama lacked that authority and shouldn't
have put them in that position. But nobody in the Senate--I think I can
speak for my other 99 colleagues. Nobody is eager to see these people
face deportation. Yet, at the same time, if we are going to give them
legal status, we have to recognize that inevitably, as an operation of
logic, there are two negative consequences that flow from that. You can
say that you don't mind them, but you can't say that they don't exist. First, as you have heard from so many others, you are going to
encourage parents from around the world who live in poverty,
oppression, strife, and war to illegally immigrate to this country with
their small children in hopes of giving their children American
citizenship sometime in the future. That is dangerous, and, in my
opinion, it is immoral to offer those kind of inducements. Second, as I have explained, you will create a whole new category of
American citizens who can now get legal status for their extended
families--to include the very parents who brought them here in
violation of law in the first place.
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