Neither are children allowed to benefit from crimes committed by their parents - not in any other aspect of law or society.
As one example, when parents steal because the family is poor, the kids don't get to keep the money. The parent goes to jail, the kids go to a relative or foster care.
Foster care, not jail. To deny them the option of seeking citizenship on the illegal entry is jail. Instead you hit them for what they did. They did not over stay a visa nor did they, as adults, enter illegally. So at most you can delay their option for citizenship but not deny.
That was someone else's deleted comment. I haven't deleted any comments in this thread.
And no - denying DACA recipients the option of staying in the US and seeking citizenship is NOT equivalent to throwing them in jail. Not even remotely.
The reason their parents came here illegally was the hope of staying in the US. Programs like DACA gave them even more incentive, and allowed them to hope that their their children would eventually become citizens and be able to get them legal status through chain migration/family reunification programs.
So, DACA recipients cannot be given permanent legal residency or a pathway to citizenship just because their parents brought them here as minors. To do that will just incentivize more parents to illegally bring minors to the US, expecting that it will happen again eventually.
(Just like Reagan's amnesty encouraged millions to come illegally, hoping that another amnesty would happen.)
However, as you point out, DACA recipients were children at the time of US entry. They were not responsible for their parents' decision to bring them to the US illegally. So, they should be allowed to apply for legal immigration from their birth country. They should should be treated the same as any other foreign national applying to enter the US - including proving that they will not be a burden on the US taxpayer.
But people who enter the US illegally as adults should never be eligible to emigrate legally through any means. So any DACA kids who get to re-enter legally should never be allowed to bring over the parent(s) who brought them illegally the first time.
Neither are children allowed to benefit from crimes committed by their parents - not in any other aspect of law or society.
As one example, when parents steal because the family is poor, the kids don't get to keep the money. The parent goes to jail, the kids go to a relative or foster care.
Foster care, not jail. To deny them the option of seeking citizenship on the illegal entry is jail. Instead you hit them for what they did. They did not over stay a visa nor did they, as adults, enter illegally. So at most you can delay their option for citizenship but not deny.
Did you even read Liberty4All's comment?
The one he deleted? Yes. Hence the discussion. You can infer what was said in the deleted comment by the included information in my own
That was someone else's deleted comment. I haven't deleted any comments in this thread.
And no - denying DACA recipients the option of staying in the US and seeking citizenship is NOT equivalent to throwing them in jail. Not even remotely.
The reason their parents came here illegally was the hope of staying in the US. Programs like DACA gave them even more incentive, and allowed them to hope that their their children would eventually become citizens and be able to get them legal status through chain migration/family reunification programs.
So, DACA recipients cannot be given permanent legal residency or a pathway to citizenship just because their parents brought them here as minors. To do that will just incentivize more parents to illegally bring minors to the US, expecting that it will happen again eventually.
(Just like Reagan's amnesty encouraged millions to come illegally, hoping that another amnesty would happen.)
However, as you point out, DACA recipients were children at the time of US entry. They were not responsible for their parents' decision to bring them to the US illegally. So, they should be allowed to apply for legal immigration from their birth country. They should should be treated the same as any other foreign national applying to enter the US - including proving that they will not be a burden on the US taxpayer.
But people who enter the US illegally as adults should never be eligible to emigrate legally through any means. So any DACA kids who get to re-enter legally should never be allowed to bring over the parent(s) who brought them illegally the first time.