With a three-week reprieve to a government shutdown, immigration now moves front and center in the congressional debate. Democrats want a resolution to the dispute over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by which the “Dreamers,” minors who came to the United States illegally, often with their parents, while President Trump wants funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

The “Dreamers” do present a moral quandary. Most do not bear any personal responsibility for the decision to enter the U.S. illegally, and many have lived in the U.S. for years, even decades, and do not have any functional memory of their country of citizenship. Yet it is wrong for their supporters to suggest that they do not already have a path to citizenship.