Columnist Marc A. Thiessen thinks Democrats should vote for $25 billion for immigration security, including a border wall with Mexico, as part of a deal to let DACA recipients stay in this country (“Trump could pressure Democrats with new DACA deal,” The Herald, April 4).
He accuses Democrats of “holding the DACA recipients hostage for political gain.” But isn’t President Trump holding the hostages? He says he wants to protect immigrants who were brought here as innocent children yet threatens to deport them unless he gets to spend billions of dollars on a useless wall.
If the president truly were interested in protecting DACA recipients, he would reinstate the Obama policy on his own, or better yet, agree to sign a bill to accomplish this without demanding a wall as his price. Unlike Thiessen, DACA recipients and their supporters will have no trouble figuring out whether it is Democrats in Congress or the president and his Republican allies who are on their side.
Mike Ward
Mukilteo
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