Virtually everyone who isn't Ann Coulter or a batsht crazy Trumper gets that Dreamers are as American as anyone and should be recognized as such
They were brought here not knowing the culture, the language and separated from family. Reunite them and send them and their papas and mamas home. They are not Americans. The question of whether or not, as a matter of national policy, we want to incentivize and reward making immigrant children into emotional and political hostages. The illegal immigrant children of illegal immigrants are not, in the traditional moral sense, criminals, and should not be morally seen as such—but they are, nevertheless, inhabiting the United States
actus reus, in the status of criminals if not the intent. Just the same, the idea that these young men and women “should not be defined by their immigration status” is a fallacy, and a dangerous one at that. We are
all, in the eyes of the law, “defined by our immigration status.” The dreamers are no different, nor should they be.