Originally Posted by VeryNicePerson1

I have this gut feeling that not applying for DACA is a huge mistake.

The benefit is that you get a work permit, and a possibility that even if they shut down DACA, they may allow you to work out that time until it expires, and then you are right back where you are.

The negative is that you are giving your information and admitting to a civil offense of being in the USA as an undocumented individual.

...but then do y0u think that some anti-immigrant buffoon will just hunt you down, because you willingly gave your information, and ruin your life by kicking you out of the country you live in?

I can understand playing it super safe, as we survive in our situations by playing it safe a lot, but DACA is an opportunity that you may possibly never see again in your life time.

And lets say they do hunt us down and put us in deportation proceedings...right now deportation proceedings take years, and the backlog is around 500,000 or so I believe? Imagine the backlog with another 700,000 individuals added to the mix.

Then how does the Trump administration answer for targeting DACA beneficiaries, but then having a tough time finding any other undocumented individual who are still in the shadows, how do they wiggle themselves out of that kind of PR hell?

I personally just think this opportunity is too bittersweet to let it slip by like that...but maybe I will be deported next year because of DACA, who knows...BUT THATS THE POINT!!! WHO THE FUCK KNOWS!!!

Can you imagine if DACA becomes locked (not shut down), and all current beneficiaries are able to keep it but new applicants are barred, the heartbreak and tears will rival that of 11/8/2016.

You better believe DACA was worth it, and if I am just thrown out because I signed up for a program that offered me the opportunity at a better life and to contribute to the USA, and then that same program is used to target me, then so be it.