I Am Worried About The Future Of Daca

[nisha90 0]

What do you think will become the future of DACA? It worries me that one day something will happen and they will get rid of it.....just like how those republicans voted on to get rid of it.  I wish obama would say something about immigration reform already, the wait has been too long. 

Not only that but who knows what the next president would do. 

[Gezinha 121]

I know, every day I am here waiting to hear the news that it is off, no more renewals! Urgh, this just kills me, and not only that, we all took a chance and trusted the President by coming out of the shadows and applying for DACA, the right thing to do is treat us like everyone else. Give us not only work permit, but let us travel too, it haven't seen my family is 13 years!

[nisha90 0]

wow 13 years is a long time! seriously, it wouldnt be fair if they decide to treat us any differently. If they decide to deport us all then they are seriously deporting the wrong people. Most of us here actually want to become someone and we have to work twice as hard for it. 

[Tori 38]

It's a troubling thought thinking of DACA being terminated. It would take years to deport all the DACA recipients since we'd all be added to the already huge list of deportees.

As much as I try to be optimistic about immigration reform I doubt there will be any significant movement within the Obama administration, or any administration in the future.

None of the parties want to work together to solve the issue and will just continue to place blame by scapegoating instead of taking accountability on themselves.

I always have the lingering thought of leaving the country for good.

[Bahamagirl 1]

Well its temporary gives us time to find a solution to get our green card that will lead to citizenship.

[Gezinha 121]

I don't know how worse they are waiting for all this to get...let's be honest, it is not only 12M people...there are a lot more out there...they have no clue about what they are doing. They didn't enforce the law, we all know, otherwise we wouldn't be here and now they have this monstrous problem...and they give us a limited amount of time to stay because they need us to stay and keep paying every time we renew, THEY NEEDS US...no doubt about that. 13 years that i have been here...11 working and paying taxes and this country has been very good to me, I have a serious illness and i always get seen by doctors when I need, medicine is extremely expensive as well and they help me with that. I have nothing to complain about except the fact that i can't leave and come back and i dont understand why in the world that is a problem for anyone..im still paying taxes, still working, still paying my bills, contributing...i dont get it...it is depressing to know that at any time something could happen to my family and i have to make the heart wrenching decision to go when my husband is here, my work is here and i won't be able to come back to my actual life that i have built here for 13 years...frustrating!

[Tori 38]

I've been in the country for 27 years and haven't returned to visit my birth place nor my extended family in Mexico since 1991. Luckily I'm fortunate to have yearly visits from them traveling here and have aunts/uncles living here too.

I have no issue not being able to return the country. The current landscape of politics is benefitting no one and will only get worse as politicians fulfill their own agendas instead of the interests of the ones that elected them.

As a filmmaker I can join the work force in Canada, Australia, or Britain. It would be a pain filing all the paper work but do able. And owning my own web design business I can work from anywhere.

[Gezinha 121]

27 years????? omg, that is absurd, there should be a law in place, if you are here for over a period of time you should get automatic citizenship...like 25 years would be a no brainer...wow, that is really a long, long time.

[freehblee90 0]

this is an old update. i know.
but hopefully Obama will do something about it soon.
he does seem pretty angry about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcr0Ohz8ssw

[sotero_gonzalez 54]

I think about DACA being terminated too.  I have a family that depends on me now and it would be almost impossible to provide for them if I can't work or keep the job that I currently have thanks to DACA.  I have been in the U.S since I was 4 years old.  I am 29 right now and I still haven't found a way to obtain my residency.  I am married to a U.S citizen and I have been considering that advanced parole idea yet I don't have a concrete approval rate that makes me want to do it.  If anything happens I wouldn't know what to do.  There is no one left from my family in Mexico and since I have never been there, wouldn't know the first thing to do if I ever got deported and was forced to return.  Praying every Sunday for this to lead to something a bit more permanent.

[Rico201320 6]

I'm optimistic that future Presidents, Republican or Democrat, won't dare remove DACA. The DHS/USCIS has a vested interest in maintaining the revenue that they get every two years when we apply for DACA extensions and so the DHS Secretary will be sure to lobby to keep DACA around for that if nothing.

[ecl23 0]

I know this is an old post. I just wanted to bump it up because I was just thinking about this today. Especially with the new presidential candidates running. If Trump wins, I swear all of us are in BIG trouble. It'll just be a matter of time... It's a little depressing, if you ask me.