Originally Posted by JavierHTx

Here in Houston there was a contest for Telemundo to win 4 tickets to watch Cirque de Soleil next week. All I needed to be was..

18 or older ✔️

Resident or Citizen ✖️

Still I submitted because maybe I thought DACA would be good enough and what were the chances I was going to win anyway. Well they called me earlier today and told me I won and that I needed to come present a valid drivers license and residency card. I was too nervous to say I had lied and only had DACA. I’ll call back in a bit and confess and tell them to give the tickets to someone else.

It’s sad because these tickets were going to my aunt, cousin and uncle who’d have a rough 2018. We lost my other aunt last year to cancer and I wanted to distract them with something new and fun. It’s little things like this that remind me that even with DACA protection I will always be a second rate citizen of this country that I’ve lived my whole life in.