200K Kids Could Lose Their Parents if DREAMers Are Deported

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




Parents who benefited from the immigration program that President Trump just rescinded have laid down roots in the United States.

BETSY WOODRUFF
09.07.17 1:00 AM ET

Angelica Villalobos has had difficult conversations with her four daughters, ages 17, 13, 10, and 8, in recent days. All four are U.S. citizens. But Villalobos, who lives in Oklahoma City, is undocumented.

She’s been in the country for decades before receiving temporary protection from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will end the DACA program, which means that people like Villalobos are now at greater risk of deportation.

And so, Villalobos and her husband—also a DACA recipient—are preparing their daughters for the worst. They’ve told the 17-year-old that she may have to become the guardian of her three younger sisters if they, the parents, get deported. Already she’s begun driving her sisters to school and picking them up afterward to get used to the possibility.

“I tell them it will be OK,” Villalobos said, “even though I don’t know if it will be OK.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/200k-kids-could-lose-their-parents-if-dreamers-are-deported

[Sunlei]

1. Our Federal government has "gone back" on their agreement, their WORD to thousands of people.

DACA people AND transgender IN our military. Our State governments as well.

Being undocumented in America used to be a civil penalty- along with if a person committed a crime-they went to prison for the crime just like regular citizens.

Then instead of release from prison, it became a deport from prison. That seemed reasonable- no one wants felons, serious criminals released if they aren't citizens.

Now Republican party has an ongoing POGROM like nazis. This is sickening and UN American! BAD LAW! Like the fucking southern pig laws that placed black people in prisons for decades to be used as slaves by corporations.