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Backup plans for DACA folk? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by AbelFromTheBible@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Hey everyone, I've been a DACA recipient since the program started in the Obama years and have held it since, but I'm anticipating it will be terminated under Trump. I'm going to stop the funding to my work 401k and placing all expendable funds in my HYSA (high yields savings account) for the time being. If it ends up being the case I have to go back to my native country I don't anticipate finding work will be too difficult given that I'm bilingual and have specialized certifications for my career and I can stay with my grandparents. (presumably for as long as I need but I will be reaching out to them) I think there's a very very low likelihood we're going to be allowed to continue with the program or given a pathway to accessing a green card/citizenship, so I'm planning for the worst here. Is anyone else in a similar boat? Have any backup plans? Any thoughts you'd like to share? Let's discuss.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I might be a rarity at Hexbear and Hexbears can call me crazy but I think Trump's deportation plans will actually happen. Millions of people over his term? I don't know. But next year I bet 100,000s of people will be arrested and then held in camps next year. I think those camps will be awful (if not hellholes) with unchecked violence and r*pe.

It's worth mentioning that the GOP SCOTUS immunity ruling enables Trump to strip anyone of citizenship and/or deport anyone at any time for no reason other than he says it's an official act. The ruling is horrific. Anyone can also be jailed, tortured, or killed. The one constant that Trump loves to do is destroying anything related to Obama. I assume DACA recipients are targets for arrest. And unlike the undocumented - Trump's administration will have reams of information on the recipients.

People can call me paranoid but if I was a DACA recipient I'd want to leave the US very soon so I wouldn't have any chance of ending up stateless for an unknown period of months (or who knows how long) in one of those vile camps.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

He managed to wipe out the equivalent of Dallas last time accidentally, so... I don't think it's crazy to assume he'll deport anybody. Hell, he already promised to deport actual US citizens ("anchor babies").

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