The part about killing DACA is it's not even a blanket approval of kids. It ONLY applied to the ones who were here when it went into effect, and only under specific conditions, and it did NOT apply to their parents. We are talking about, in some cases, kids who don't even really know their home country, and have lived in the US virtually their entire lives.

But to most Republicans I've talked to, that doesn't make any difference: they're illegal aliens lumped in the same class as all the other people who are here to "steal our jobs." Their presence here is a "burden" on "taxpayers" and they have no right to be here and who cares what happens to them? They should be "sent home."

This is Trump doing precisely what Trump promised to do during the campaign. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's cruel. But it's the sort of stupid cruelty Trump voters like ms.amylou explicitly voted for.