As a close friend of one of the 27 Microsoft FTE employees living with DACA status and knowing their story, it's utterly maddening and counterproductive that Trump's administration would end DACA for the sake of his base. But then, he's the president who pardoned Arpaio and banned transgender people from the services, so it's almost an inevitability he'll get rid of DACA at this point. Anything to "trigger" those liberals, eh?<p>It's an established principle that we don't punish children for the mistakes of their parents - that's essentially the basis for DACA.<p>The biggest cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face part here is that these 27 employees are easily six-figure earners (I know my friend is...) - that's at least $25,000/yr in federal tax revenue (multiplied by 27 for $675,000/yr!) Trump's administration is giving up, sacrificed to the Republican myth of "come here legally!" when in many cases it's outright impossible (thank you, H-1B visa caps).<p>I'm surprised the Reganite part of the GOP isn't advancing a "buy your way into citizenship" policy: unauthorized immigrants who still made successes of their lives can make up for their earlier immigration impropriety by paying a "tax" in exchange for the safety of citizenship[0]. Why would anyone be opposed to that unless they were racist and/or xenophobic?<p>[0] I know there exist Green Card-for-investment programs and visas with a similar basis, but they require at least $500,000 at-hand immediately, which is inappropriate for someone who is an employee, not an entrepreneur.