Should the President Bargain on DACA?

by Rod D. Martin
September 4, 2017

Should the President bargain on DACA?

Short answer from this red-meat conservative: probably.

Let's start with the obvious: DACA is horribly illegal and unconstitutional, an example of Barack Obama's rule by "pen and phone", which is to say by fiat. It was a dictatorial act designed to increase the voting base of the Democrat Party, nothing more, nothing less.

On the other hand, I find myself much more interested in that aspect of DACA than in the policy itself. It mattered a lot more when it was one of many such actions intended to undermine our system of government, even more still when we were faced with the prospect of eight additional years of Hillary Clinton ratifying Obama's rule-by-decree both with her own decrees and her own Supreme Court majority.

DACA in isolation is bad policy, but is not a hill on which to die. To the degree that it benefits the more-or-less innocent (and more-or-less is about the best we can say for many of them, because man…