If you haven’t heard President Trump plans on ending DACA, (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), this program allowed undocumented children to remain in the U.S., enroll in a college, and legally have jobs for a 2-year period and is renewable through good behavior, this only affects children who arrived before the age of 16.

My initial thoughts when I first heard this was ‘what was he thinking?!’, though I am a documented citizen, I was still horrified at thought that this program has now become, what Vox suggests as, a ‘ticking time bomb for 800,000 immigrants’.

Before DACA existed the DREAM act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors act), floated in congress for several years until former President Obama signed the DACA program in the failure of the DREAM act in 2012.

“Let’s be clear: this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship, this is not a permanent x.”, Obama stated. “ this is a temporary stopgap measure”

Does this make Trump’s decision justified? In my view, no, if he was planning for something bigger and better for all the DREAMers, this was the worst way he could have possibly done it, by making people under this program and the people that personally know them worry for their livelihood.

The ending of DACA was, of course, met with severe backlash from almost everyone including several news outlets and Trump’s own party. Trump was heavily affected by this and on the morning of Thursday September 14 he met with the Democrats to discuss turning DACA into a law. It surprised me at first that he would do such a thing seemingly out of peer pressure, but you have to remember that before Trump became president he was a business- man and T.V. personality, he relies on his supporters and charisma for a sort of moral support from what I can see.

“Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!…..” – Donald J. Trump tweeted on Sep. 14

This statement seems to completely contradict what he said when they announced his decision to end DACA, saying that the program “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.” Now I am no anti Trump or Trump supporter and I try to have a clear understanding on things, but this is ridiculous, he’s trying to desperately gain more support.

He could not have made this worse for himself, crushing even a sliver of hope for the people. DACA was supposed be a temporary measure for the young immigrants who were born here not knowing that they were undocumented, even if Trump had planned all along that he was going to get rid of DACA for a more permanent solution, I cannot rub o this feeling of utter disappointment for the way he did it, pissing off and scaring the people under the program.