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Why Ending DACA Is So Unprecedented

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  1. Melody Bot Sep 5, 2017
    Melody Bot

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    Dara Lind, writing for Vox:


    The Trump administration’s announcement Tuesday, that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — removing deportation protection and work permits from nearly 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants — unless Congress passes a bill in the next six months to protect DACA recipients, isn’t a punt or a reprieve. It’s an opportunity to deflect, or share, the responsibility for what would be an unprecedented act in US history.

    There’s never really been a time when a generation of people, raised and rooted in the United States, has been stripped of official recognition and pushed back into the precarity of unauthorized-immigrant life.
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  2. bmir14 Sep 5, 2017
    bmir14

    Trusted Supporter

    Heartless
     
  3. aniafc Sep 5, 2017
    aniafc

    Trusted

    This is rough. Found out today because my university's president sent out an email to all students about it.
     
  4. Arry Sep 5, 2017
    Arry

    it was all a dream Prestigious

    I have a few family members that are DREAMers, so I'm pretty terrified.
     
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  6. K0ta Sep 5, 2017
    K0ta

    wrap yourself in petals for armor.

    I am so sorry, I hope everyone can stay as safe as possible.

    Let's all call our representatives and get them on board with the DREAM Act.
     
  7. Arry Sep 5, 2017
    Arry

    it was all a dream Prestigious

    thank you, we are fortunate to be able to afford the legal fees to fight deportation and i am thankfully from Washington where our AG is badass and will fight for us. i've done as much as i can (called/donated/educated others), and all i can hope for is that people will have a little more empathy for our common brothers/sisters.
     
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  8. Kiana Sep 5, 2017
    Kiana

    Goddamn, man child Prestigious

    Its cruel and enraging. I legit can't even imagine being such a monster.
     
  9. carlosonthedrums Sep 5, 2017
    carlosonthedrums

    Cooler than a polar bear's toenails Prestigious

    As someone born in a Hispanic country who came here as a young child to study and have an opportunity at a better life, I couldn't be more disgusted right now.

    I say that, and yet there's always next week for this troll to outdo himself.
     
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  10. Oskarr Sep 5, 2017
    Oskarr

    Needled 24/7

    Un-American. Period.
     
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