What do I see in this picture: Americans.

Parts taken from article by Caitlin Dickerson a national immigration reporter with the New York Times:

"What is DACA?

The program was introduced in 2012 by President Barack Obama as a stopgap measure that would shield from deportation people who were brought into the United States as children. The status is renewable, lasting two years at a time. The program does not provide a pathway to citizenship."

"Who are the Dreamers?

DACA recipients are often referred to as Dreamers, after a similar piece of legislation called the Dream Act, which was introduced in 2001 and would have given its beneficiaries a path to American citizenship. They now fall between the ages of 16 and 35; the vast majority came from Mexico, though many others were born in Central and South America, Asia and the Caribbean. The status has been issued to roughly 800,000 people."

"What if there’s no deal?

If Congress does not come up with a solution and the injunction against the DACA phaseout is lifted by the courts, recipients will begin to lose protection as their two-year statuses expire and are no longer renewable, beginning in March.

When that happens, they will be vulnerable to deportation right away. Even if they are not arrested immediately, they will lose a wide range of benefits."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/daca-dreamers-shutdown.html

Marry a Dreamer?

What if your parents came to the United States illegally when you were three years old? You went to US schools, your friends are American citizens, your culture may have strong roots stemming from your parents background, but you are also American as apple pie. You speak English, you are going to or have gone to US universities and community colleges, you pay taxes, you contribute to the American lifestyle and economy in every way. You are American.

However, not by your choice, you where not born here in the US and thus are not 'officially' a US citizen despite every other aspect of your life contradicting this legal description. And now, after spending most of your life in the US, you are on pins and needles because your country is threatening to deport you, an American by every definition except by a small minority of politicians trying to punish you for others' mistakes. By every 'American' standard, this is outrageous.

This saga may still have a positive legal outcome, but what if it does not and the federal government via I.C.E. or other federal agents under guise of future draconian political laws come for our American children to deport them from their homes, family, friends, and community?

I propose (pun intended) that US citizens start a network to link US activist citizens willing to 'marry' dreamers to help them stay in their rightful home, the United States of America.

Sure this would be 'illegal' by federal laws but so are all the marijuana establishments and production facilities across the nation. What I am advocating is civil disobedience just like the state legal but federally illegal cannabis industries.

Marrying a dreamer is not for some economic or other gain but a humanitarian act that may take years to come to fruition. This is not a romantic union but a marriage of political civil disobedience. It may involve much time for both the dreamer and the activist, but the reward is huge; being a good citizen of humanity and helping breathe life into a dream that comes to life and ending a nightmare created by a potential unjust legal outcome that supports death of liberty, death of the American dream.

This action will not be taken lightly in that it will involve subterfuge, bureaucracy, intimidation, and even possible prosecution and/or other penalties. This is not an action for the faint in heart, but could be a great union for the idealistic activist and the politically mistreated dreamer.

I hope this will be the start of a conversation for one possibility for a piece of the solution to the DACA debacle.

What do you think?