FWIW, I do think the situation is different when we’re dealing with kids who were brought here by their parents.
The KIDS are not criminals any more than is a hostage in the back seat of a car when another person gets kidnapped.
So, since they are not criminals themselves, and since they have not committed any illegal act themselves, they deserve a level of respect that doesn’t necessarily extend to the ones who committed the act.
I don’t know exactly what I’d do, but I think I’d give them some kind of preferential place in line to complete legal immigration themselves with no guilty illegal ever being able to go above worker status.
As always, the correct answer is sealing the border, cracking down on employers, and drying up any economic prospects for illegals.
I’m with Virgil Goode on stopping all legal immigration for a number of years, also. There’s no reason in a time of high unemployment for citizens to be competing for jobs with foreign competition brought in making things tougher on everyone.
That is all well and good, but the problem here is not that these kids don't deserve to be treated better than their parents or better than people who were criminally liable for being illegal aliens, the problem is that Obama did this on his own.
The LAW provides that these people are to be deported when found. There is no LAW that gives them special treatment. Bush tried to push through legislation that would have done pretty much what Obama did, but when Bush couldn't get the legislation passed, he didn't give an EXECUTIVE ORDER effectively passing the legislation by the stroke of a pen.
Obama should be impeached for what he just did. His job as the EXECUTIVE is to EXECUTe the laws, not make them up as he goes along. Obama thinks he is a dictator, and most of the MSM and the Democrat party and a lot of RINOS like Rubio and Romney are cheering him on.