Letter to the Editor: Save DACA
According to statistics provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 300,000 young immigrants were accepted into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. This program gives many opportunities to children who were brought to the United States at a young age, the most important opportunity being the ability to attend college. Without these government programs, immigrant youth are left with no legal rights and the constant fear of being deported. The majority of these students were brought to the United States at a very young age with no ability to decide their fate, and they have likely spent most of their life here. Therefore, the possibility of being sent back to a fairly unknown country and being stripped of the only life they have known is entirely too real.