ms. vaughn, where do you find denise undeserving? where do you find to blame her -- i'm not saying you blame her, but in terms of a policy, the immigration situation blames her. she because of a choice made by her parent was brought here. the parent probably had a very hard time, looked for a brighter future, had a small child, a year old, came to this country and this small child struggled and evolved into one wonderful, special person. how does the people like her, and they are truly like her, get the blame for other problems with our immigration policy? and i know what they are. i've been a mayor. i've seen what happened with kate steinle. there are a lot of problems out there. but this is a population that is contributing, is educating, is serving in the military, is proud and knows nothing else but america. why should america reject them? >> well, i don't think america should reject them, and i don't think americans blame people with daca for this situation. i think that they're upset that our failure to enforce our immigration

ms. vaughn. >> thank you very much for the invitation to testify today. id like to address the impact of the daca program and offer a few comments on how congress might move forward now that it has been terminated. the educational institutions they attended have benefitted too. we cannot ignore that there have been some adverse side effects for communities and for our immigration system. the daca policy was an abuse of and was carelessly implemented. it displaced u.s. workers added to the cost of public welfare and assistance programs, provided protection to criminals in some cases, diverted benefits for legal immigrants, invited fraudulent applications. members of congress again are being confronted by advocates but constant increases have consequences for americans and continued tolerance damages the integrity of the illegal immigration system and erodes public support. clearly there is support for people with daca. i think there are legitimate reasons to do it. if congress takes this step though it must be limited to the 700,000 people approximately wh