The most Recent Rose Café was very eye opening and it cleared up several things for me. GRF Esmeralda brought up several facts about the DREAM act and DACA while also helping me to understand the predicament many undocumented youth are currently facing.  The terms DREAMers is now considered divisive, the youth are able to begin the path to a better life but only if they go to college and basically view their parents as criminals. The counter to this is DACA (Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals), a law President Obama helped pass which gives the same perks of the Dream Act but does so without penalizing the parents and allows those who do not wish to attend college the option of staying in the country.

I feel that DACA is a good start to helping undocumented youth make it in this country, whether they go to college or not. Look, undocumented people have it hard enough as it is, you’re treated like crap and people blame you for taking their jobs.  The Dream Act may have been passed with the best intentions but it’s time is over and we are in desperate need of a new law that treats undocumented people fairly, not one that divides them or worse treats them like criminals. Hopefully, in the next few years someone will build on what President Obama started with DACA and pass a law that can put the people, not politics, first and be fair to all.