Swap DACA for Wall? No Way!
By MICHAEL TOMASKYSEPT. 8, 2017
... voters support the “liberal” position on DACA. In one recent poll, 58 percent of respondents said the program’s participants .. should be allowed to stay and have a path to citizenship. An additional 18 percent favored letting them become legal residents, but not citizens. Only 15 percent opted for deportation ...
... Americans do not support a border wall. A survey in late July — conducted by the polling company Rasmussen, generally considered to lean toward Mr. Trump — found that 56 percent of respondents opposed the wall, and 37 percent backed it. This is a big change from late January ...
So let’s review. We’ve got one policy that enjoys broad public backing, as well as bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. We’ve got another policy that has little public backing, which congressional Democrats oppose implacably and leaves even some Republicans ambivalent ...
... giving an unpopular president money for an unpopular idea is how a minority stays a minority.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/swap-daca-wall-funding.html
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