The DACA post

You don't need me to tell you that the presidential order to end DACA, with a six-month delay, is a front-burner subject of discussion on news and opinion sites today.

The fault lines regarding who likes it and who loathes it are mostly predictable, but not entirely. There are conservatives of a libertarian bent who think DACA is a good thing. Paul Ryan only bolstered his image as an ineffectual leader who exhibits symptoms of Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome by appealing to Trump four days ago to delay action, and now issuing a statement saying that it was the right thing to do, given that the Most Equal Comrade's executive order was unconstitutional.

But now everybody has the perfect opportunity to indulge in appeals to feelings and ad hominem attacks. Squirrel-Hair's water-carriers feel emboldened to ramp up their kick-'em-all-out-now message, and those who want to paint this as being about "diversity" and "what really makes our country strong" can once again trot out anecdotal poster children for us all to empathize with.

Jim Jamitis at Red State steps back in scope to place this issue in the context of issues generally that assume layers of complexity as government tries - clumsily - to address them:

The most intractable political problems we struggle with as a nation are not usually the result of the an issue inherently being particularly complex. More often the problem has been tied into a Gordian knot on the scale of a roadside “world’s largest ball of twine” attraction by all the ham handed attempts by Congress to fix it over the years. Health care certainly falls into this category; no one in Washington seems able to admit that the root cause of the problem is Washington and its constant meddling in the health insurance market. Immigration is also a problem which has been made ridiculous by decades of compounded failure. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was President Barack Obama’s attempt to solve a piece of the immigration mess through executive branch overreach.

That overreach split one problem into two problems. The immigration problem is what to do with people who are technically illegal aliens but who were brought to the United States as minor children by their parents. Most of them have known no other home than the United States. The second problem is abuse of power. Attempting to address one problem by capriciously exercising power not delegated to him by the Constitution, Obama only made matters worse. 

He goes on to say that the MAGA boneheads will, as is characteristic for them, refuse to admit to any nuance:

There are plenty of mouth breathers with sweat stained MAGA caps screeching that the only solution is kicking people out of the country and anyone who suggests that this is not a black and white, one size fits all problem is just a RINO squish “libturd.” (Most of them probably fall into the pseudo-alpha male category described by Jay Caruso.) I recognize that Congressional Republicans have been mostly incompetent in their attempts to address these issues, but that makes it no less stupid to suggest deporting people indiscriminately to countries they may not have even seen since they were infants.

Betsy Woodruff at the Daily Beast points out that for however long this limbo period is, and given Congressional Republicans' track record for avoiding resolute action like the plague, it could be of indefinite duration, the living-in-the-shadows quality of the existence of these offspring of illegal border crossers is going be somewhat more pronounced:

“Information provided to USCIS in DACA requests will not be proactively provided to ICE and CBP for the purpose of immigration enforcement proceedings,” read the White House talking points memo, which was obtained by The Daily Beast. “With that said, it can be utilized for such proceedings when appropriate.”

In practical terms, Fresco said, this means that any DACA recipient who gets arrested by police will be vulnerable to deportation. That’s because police alert a host of federal agencies, including ICE, when they make arrests. ICE officers will then be able to ask USCIS if people who were arrested have received DACA—and, thus, are in the U.S. illegally. 

The end result will be that a good chunk of the 800,000 or so DACA recipients will simply recede from public view entirely. 

“If people go back in the shadows and don’t have any interactions with law enforcement of any kind, their likelihood of being removed is not high,” Fresco said. 

“The key is doing everything you can to avoid interactions with the police,” he added. “That’s pretty much all you can do at this point.”

Ben Shapiro at Daily Wire also thinks it's a fool's errand to count on GOP legislators to come up with something solid in the next half-year:

Congressional Republicans Will Fall Apart. If Trump thinks he’s going to be able to get Congressional Republicans to act on his wall by trading DACA for it, he’s likely to be sorely mistaken. There will be Republicans who take the same purist position as Ann Coulter; there will be others, like Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who are likely to take the same position as Congressional Democrats.

And finally, there is the chance for post-America's large corporations to once again grandstand. I've often used Cummins as an example of corporate acquiescence to the Left, not only because it is headquartered in the city where I live, but because it can be counted on to take the hurl-inducing position on any issue that it deems as involving its "values." They do it with energy, they do it with human sexuality, and now their doing it with DACA.