DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is an immigration policy that was implemented by the Obama administration in 2012. After being pressured by multiple state attorneys general for months, the Trump administration announced on September 5 that DACA would be rescinded. This policy change has been a topic of discussion around campus and some Sooners are even seeing some of their piers directly impacted by this change.
- Pablo Angulo
- “I think they should just, dealing with all these kids who have been brought up in this place, and then they don’t consider themselves from the place they’re going to be sent to, or Americans, and it’s just a mix of home identity, you know, and as Americans, I think that’s what everyone is”
- Eduardo Campbell
- “I feel like what is happening right now is a way for the government to fight back about what was implemented last year, it’s more like a political attack. I think it’s very sad and horrible what is happening, especially since these kids didn’t decide to come to this place”
- Taylor Vanderburg
- “If they have been here their whole lives, and they haven’t known any type of life besides living in America, and they were raised here, then they should be allowed to stay because that makes you American”
- Jillian Robertson
- “I think it depends on how old they were when they came here, but for a lot of them it was their parent’s decision to bring them here and they shouldn’t have to suffer for that”
- Jessica Todd
- “Definitely from an economic perspective, the only way the United States grows is through immigration … it’s no fault of the children, and if we want to grow economically and societally stay based on our foundation, we should allow them to stay”
- Blessing Chirimbani
- “So many of my friends have been affected by the situation, and since they were raised here, I think they should be given the chance to pursue their dreams.”
- Christen Jarshaw
- “I think they should be able to stay because personally, I’m a humanist, and I think we should all treat each other equally, whether or not you’re a US citizen, or not a US citizen, or whatever country you’re from, we’re all people, so we should all treat each other equally”
- Zachary Waldroup
- “I think that the children that have come here, they have the right, just like anyone else on this earth, to apply for citizenship, and I think there should just be a better ironed out process to do that, because right now there’s a grey area there.”
