Quote (inkanddagger @ Sep 4 2017 01:13am)
I feel like you guys just don't quite understand.
Imagine that you were brought by your parents to the United States as a baby. You grow up an American, maybe you only know English, you go through high school here, maybe you're even the valedictorian and prom king. You worked hard and now that you've graduated, it's time to get a job and go to university.
Only something isn't right. You discover at 18 years old that you can't apply to college or get a job because you don't have a US birth certificate. Your parents crossed the border illegally and never told you. They abandoned their culture and only taught you English because they wanted you to fully assimilate.
Now Donald Trump is deporting you to a place you have no memory of, where you don't speak the language, and where all of your accomplishments for the first 18 years of your life no longer matter.
This is what DACA was designed to address. There is no path to citizenship for these kids, and many of them grew up the same as you, many never knowing that the country they believed in wasn't actually home.
What if you get aborted? Marginally worse imo.