There’s a federal database of undocumented immigrants like me. Don’t let Trump get it.

The Washington Post ^ | November 22, 2016 | Julián Gustavo Gómez, campus engagement manager for Define American

[2ndDivisionVet]

Donald Trump spent the presidential campaign promising to kick me and other undocumented immigrants out of the country. Now a federal database created to protect those of us who arrived as children could help him do just that.

More than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought here as kids, myself included, have willingly handed over our personal information to the federal government as part of a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The program, started by President Obama through executive action in 2012, was supposed to temporarily shield us from deportation and give us temporary employment authorization.

When I applied for the temporary status in 2013, I had to provide U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with every detail of my personal information — school records, bank accounts, my original Argentine passport and birth certificate and more, along with my address and every location I’d lived for the last 20 years. I included a check for $465 and went to a USCIS office near me in Miami to have my fingerprints and photograph taken. Since then, I have completed an application for renewal twice, with updates on my current address, everywhere I’ve lived since my previous application, and my current income. I received my most recent renewal just last month.

If Trump wants to use it to find undocumented immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security’s database of our addresses, fingerprints, employers and more could easily become a weapon instead of a shield. The database likely also includes information on thousands of Dreamers who applied and were denied for failing to pass a criminal background check or because they didn’t have sufficient evidence of continuous residence in the U.S. since June 2007, which is one of the guidelines for eligibility....

[2ndDivisionVet]

I can hear the Democrats cheering.

[Hildy]

We’re from the government and we’re here to help.

[PhiloBedo]

That’s tough bro...you gotta go!

[Borderline]

An election that says: Go Home.

[RightGeek]

Target-rich environment!

[nikos1121]

There is a total disconnect here. Can you imagine what would happen to any of us, if we were found in any other country in the world illegally?

[dsrtsage]

Why are so many minorities fighting so hard to remain in this racist facist country full of white people who put at least 90% of their energy into oppressing minorities?

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,Perdro...it looks like it's

BACK TO ARGENTINA FOR YOU!

[Rebel2016]

I’m sure some patriot federal employees have downloaded copies of the contents of the database and saved in secured server, even though Obama administration would destroy the database before January 20th.

[Yo-Yo]

Trump said he was going to deport criminal illegal aliens. By enforcing existing laws such as eVerify,, you will deport yourself.

[Gay State Conservative]

...if we were found in any other country in the world illegally?

I've done a fair amount of traveling in my day and to the very best of my knowledge I've *never* violated *any* country's entry/immigration/labor laws.Not even Australia's,a country that I fell in love with (and have wanted to live in) since my first visit in 1979.

[Any Fate But Submission]

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good bye, gooooood byyyyyyyye, , gooooood byyyyyyyye, , gooooood byyyyyyyye, oh, and don’t come back unless it is legal.

[editor-surveyor]

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Law breakers want a law to protect them??

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[Eddie01]

Trump has the database.

In case there was any doubt about you... well you just cleared that up didn’t you.

[Uncle Miltie]

DACA is a DEPORTATION LIST.

[blueplum]

temporary doesn’t mean permanent

And, quite frankly, in the timespan of the 2 renewals the author admits to, there was plenty of time to apply for citizenship. Instead, the author wants a badge for flaunting the laws of the land, the same laws he now wants protection under.

[Boogieman]

"More than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought here as kids, myself included, have willingly handed over our personal information to the federal government as part of a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)."

[dsc]

“could easily become a weapon instead of a shield.”

The only thing that would please me more than you leaving the country would be you dropping dead in the street.

[kaehurowing]

He needs a “ticket” to show he’s in this country legally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHSPf6x1Fdo

[dadfly]

did you illegals ever realize why the gov’t registers people, people’s property, etc?

better get out now! (while the gettin’s good).