DACA beneficiaries are not the criminals
 

Hi guys.....just here for a rant....feel free to join in.

I've been numb these past couple of days since the election results came in and declared Trump as the next president. We are all very heartbroken by this outcome mostly because Trump ran a very hateful campaign. The fact that almost half of the country voted for this man is what scares me the most. Those votes represented how favorable his hate is towards people like us, and that is something that's not easy to ignore.

Trump always had a deportation selling point in mind, and when asked about it, he always says "deporting the criminals". If that was the case, then DACA beneficiaries like us is the wrong group of people to come after. Every single one of us paid our way to get those EADs, and not only that, WE WERE BACKGROUND CHECKED. We were all cleared, which that was the biggest reason we qualified to stay in the country for four years to begin with. Within those four years, we contributed. We started working. We went back to school. We bought houses. We bought cars. We paid taxes. WE WEREN'T THE NUISANCE PEOPLE BELIEVED US TO BE. I understand the anger towards the broken immigration system, the drug cartels, and illegal smugglers, but what I don't understand is how could his first step to stop "illegal criminals" be to end DACA? How can we be his first target? We were simply trying to build our lives as best as we can in the country we grew up in.

I have very little hope of what's coming in the next year, and that is where the anger comes in. In that little hope, and in trying to make sense of everything else, I just knew that we all have to stay strong. President Obama's attempt to expand DACA and implement DAPA was blocked through a series of lawsuits and supreme court hearings. The same can also be done if Trump tries to rescind the program. There is still hope, although very little. I am not sure of what will happen, but as a lot of people have already said here....hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Re: DACA beneficiaries are not the criminals
 

Him cancelling DACA is all symbolic. This is how he's giving Obama the middle finger

Re: DACA beneficiaries are not the criminals
 

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