Imagine You're Sixteen...
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
Eugene, Oregon
January 24, 2018 3:31pm CST
It doesn't matter, male or female, you are in high school, looking forward to the junior prom, spring break, deciding about college, looking at applications. Your grades are good, maybe you have a girl or boy friend.
Then your parents tell you. They and you too are not in the US legally. Maybe you were three, or five when it happened. You might remember a journey, but it was never talked about. Maybe you no longer speak the language your parents still remember.
Now, imagine the threat of being taken away from everything know today, home, school, friends, the future you dreamed about.
This is happening to far too many children and young people in the US today. It is not a political question; it is a moral question.
I do not want the Dreamers deported.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62929)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
24 Jan 18
There parents should of taken the proper steps so that they would be safe. No two ways about it.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Jan 18
I don't either. It is not fair to them. I wish the man with the yellow hair would go jump in the lake. He has some weird ideas to say the very least.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
25 Jan 18
I think a lot of us have suggested that he do that.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
18 Mar 18
@celticeagle , Not fair for the kids.
I also wish the man with the yellow hair (or should I say the child?", would either jump into the lake or land up in the dustbin.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
26 Jan 18
Not unless Congress acts. Close to 800,000 will face deportation. Kids born in the US are citizens automatically.
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@Deepizzaguy (104150)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Jan 18
You have a good point since the dreamers have a right to live the American Dream like the rest of us.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
25 Jan 18
Imagine how terrible it would be to be dropped into a third world country at that age.
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@Deepizzaguy (104150)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Jan 18
@JamesHxstatic That is true since I do know of some people who live in Third World type nations.
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@Kandae11 (55162)
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25 Jan 18
@JamesHxstatic , I suppose Caribbean and South American countries are - third world - but I won't live anywhere else .
And I have lived in first world countries before.
And I have lived in first world countries before.2 people like this
@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
25 Jan 18
That is a good way to look at it. Puts it into perspective.
I think that there are others who should be deported before the dreamers.
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