'I feel like I have to go back into hiding'

[struggle4progress]

... The articles I’m reading are calling us "aliens." They make us seem foreign and unintelligible, so nobody will understand we’re human beings. They say I’m a criminal.

All day I have been sitting in class trying to pay attention. I’m in the United States for the education that my parents save every penny to pay for. We pay our taxes. I saved up $10,000 myself, and I spent it all on tuition and school and classes in the first half year of school. I get no federal aid, obviously, as a DACA recipient.

I just need three more months to finish my degree. I’m in the last stretch, and they’re going to cut my legs from under me? ...

I’m not a very emotional person, but I’m just so scared. My family lived in hiding for so long, and I didn’t even know I was hidden. Then, after DACA, I was proud to be able to thrive in this country. Now, I can’t do anything that will make me stand out in a crowd. I feel like I have to go back into hiding ...

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ip-gerson-daca-rescinded-20170910-story.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. I want to rip my hair out and cry.

This is what life is like here in CA and it is unbelievably cruel and unnecessary to put wonderful people through this. Compare the moral and ethical values and contributions to our country of the Dreamers to that of "real Americans" who wear Nazi symbols and profess hate toward about 95% of the people living in this country legally.

[TomSlick]

2. I know it's easy for me to say - but

Stay strong. Whatever you do, complete your education.

My hope is that nothing is going to happen for three months - if then. I believe that even the Repugnants can bear the heat of actually deporting the Dreamers. However, no matter what happens, they cannot take your education away.

You represent the American dream. We're counting on you!

[zentrum]

3. Wish I could tell this person...

We want you here.
Many will fight on your behalf.
The haters are a loud minority.
Do not listen to them.
You are called Dreamers because you have earned that word.
You are just what our country needs.
Do not despair.

[Stonepounder]

4. Hang in there S4P!

They have said nothing will happen for at least 6 months and, by then, enough people will have registered their dismay that either Congress, the Orange Shitgibbon, or the Courts will have put DACA folks back under protection.

We are strong, we are committed, and we will fight! Over 70% of Americans want dreamers protected. We want you here as fellow Americans and we will do everything in our power to make our voices heard and we will let Congress know that if they won't do their job and listen to a large majority of voters, then we, the voters, will find other people who will do what we, the electorate, want them to do. 2018 is not that far away!

Hang in there and be brave!

[pangaia]

11. Looks like it is the person in the article speaking, not S4P.

[Stonepounder]

13. Oops. OK, that's what I would say to the person in the article. n/t

[pangaia]

14. Many missed that in this thread.

[Stuart G]

5. Please...Do Not Give Up.....Please...

We need you to finish....please

[Initech]

6. Do not give up!

The hate fad will die out and the haters and Nazis will hopefully go away forever. People are waking up to the unfiltered hate in this country and while it's getting to be a huge problem, hopefully it will even out or die off once these racists and Nazis start getting outed. We do not want immigrants to leave.

[pangaia]

15. It is not S4P speaking. That is from the Article.

[iluvtennis]

7. Please do hang in there. We're all send out prayers and positive energy to get DreamAct approved.

[democrank]

8. We have your back. Count on it.

Stay as strong as you possibly can and don't give up. Please, don't give up.

[blueinredohio]

9. Concentrate on finishing school, get your degree and keep fighting

I hope everyone keeps doing all they can to help you. I know I will. Good luck and hopefully it won't be long until we are rid of this idiot.

[syringis]

10. Trump is cruel and stupid !

He is as smart as a gnat !

If someone should be deported with a good kick ass, it is him.

Dreamers represent a promise for the future and will be part of the driving forces.

Which idiot cannot understand that???

[sharedvalues]

12. Productive member of American society

Productive residents
Working residents
Hardworking residents
Taxpaying residents
Hardworking students


That's who immigrants are. Never let anyone use the word illegal or the word alien or the word undocumented to describe them. Immigrants help America. We want them here. They work hard and contribute to society. Words matter. Use the right ones, everyone.