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to work together on the layup. If you are looking for political cover to deal with increased
military funding, 70 percent-plus of the people believe we would need
more military funding. If you are looking for political cover to deal
with the DACA population, 82 percent of the public supports a pathway
to citizenship for the DACA population. I can't find too many issues
that poll like that. This is a FOX News poll, which means it is true: 79 percent of
Americans and 63 percent of Trump voters favor granting citizenship to
illegal immigrants under 30 who were brought here as children. Sixty-
three percent of Trump voters understand that we need border security,
but they have no animosity toward these young people who came here at
the age of 6, on average, and literally have lived their lives here
with no place else to go. Here is the good news. We would be crazy to want them to leave. If
you have met any of these Dream Act kids, the last thing you would want
them to do is to leave. There are bad people in every population. There
are 900 people in the population of Dream Act, or DACA, kids who are in
the military, and there are 20,000 teachers. So on March 5, I don't
want someone to have to deal with the fact that a fifth-grade teacher
who everybody likes has to leave the country. That is insane. I know my Democratic colleagues will support more defense funding
with the understanding that the Congress, through legislation, deals
with the DACA problem. They are willing to put money into the system
for border security. They are willing to make a down payment on
changing our immigration system to more merit based. At the end of the day, there is a deal to be had. It just needs to be
done.
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Generalization that all DACA recipients are valuable and desirable members of society.
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