Some things people are missing about the recent government shutdown.

The recent government shutdown has been hailed by the right as a victory for Donald Trump.
Many progressives are angry with minority leader Schumer over the seeming "cave" by the minority leader over the issue. However, the object of the exercise was never to get the GOP to pass some form of DACA legislation. That was never on the cards, and honestly it has not ever been a realistic possibility even though many Republicans mouth words approving the concept. The reality is, there are enough people in the Republican caucus who are dead-set against any immigration of any people who have the condition of being Not-White. It has nothing to do with "The Rule of Law" as they so righteously trumpet -- these people ignore law when it suits them -- and everything to do with the fact that these people come from places where the majority of people have not-white skin. So, try as they might, the Democrats in DC could not have gotten any DACA bill passed. Not by trading a wall for it -- Trump believes he's going to get his wall over the objections of the Democrats. Not by trading DACA for an end to family unification -- what the right so venomously call "chain migration".

The GOP are no fools. They realize fully that they control both houses of the legislature and the White House -- the entire legislative chain. The House of Representatives will pass anything on the conservative agenda, and blockade anything they don't like. This time, the Senate will send a bill over to the house, where it will die because either a) Ryan will not bring it up for a vote, most likely citing the "Hastert Rule" wherein the he won't bring a bill up for a vote unless a majority of the majority party are in favor of it. You can bet your last dollar that no DACA bill will have that support. Again, it is not a question of "Rule of Law". These people came here as wards of their parents -- they had no ability to refuse to come, and they had no criminal intent. (see my previous post here for a discussion of the legalities involved, but warning, I'm not a lawyer and may have missed things.)
These things being true, there is no logical, legal objection to these people staying. The current DACA recipients are not criminals -- criminals cannot gain entry into the program. (a recent article on a far-right website alleges that some 2000 of the 800,000 "Dreamers" have been arrested, or accused of crimes as vague as "gang activity", but I largely dismiss those as being far below the normal rate of criminal incarceration in the United States. ) They are not for the most part on government assistance -- most have jobs, some are going to college, some even have established their own businesses. In short, these are ordinary young men and women who arrived on our shores without having checked off all the right boxes and signed all the right forms. They largely know only the United States as their home. To deport them would be a cruel and unusual punishment, indeed.