LOL, nobody is crediting DACA BECAUSE of the STARS Act. DACA didn't happen because there was a STARS Act, but political resentment against the Democrats building in the immigration community. The argument is that

a) Marco Rubio and the Republicans were starting to make a whole lot more noise about immigration via the STARS Act when the Democrats were largely silent and showed NO public movements.

b) The Republicans were starting to make the public case against the Democrats being pro-immigration and not doing anything for it, and it was gaining traction.

The record is what it is. I wasn't going to benefit from the STARS Act and I didn't support it. Duh. But please believe that the fact that REPUBLICANS were moving first while the Democrats were stagnant made MANY folks in the immigration community extremely frustrated and unenthusiastic about the Obama administration.

The youth and Latino vote are unenthusiastic about re-electing Obama. Everything that Obama is doing is trying to reclaim that old magic and to get people to come out to vote.

It's not that Latinos are going to vote Republican. But are they going to vote? The minority and youth vote is basically what keeping Obama ahead since Obama/Romney are in a dead heat with white voters. Republicans want the Latino vote to remain disenchanted and stay home.

For the record, Obama would still have had to deal with this even if there wasn't a STARS Act.