In his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump has vowed to "cancel [what Trump deems as] every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama."
One of these executive actions could be Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy — which has allowed as many as 750,000 youths who were brought into America illegally (through no fault of their own) to go to school and work to make their adopted country a better place without fear of deportation.
Since Trump has called DACA "illegal and unconstitutional" in the past, close to a million undocumented youths are now at risk. But they aren't holding their breath. They're speaking out.
That's right, even though they were unable to vote in the presidential election, they aren't letting their voices go unheard.
AJ+ noticed that many undocumented youths have begun tweeting some of the incredible things that this act has given them the ability to accomplish under the hashtag #WithDACA.
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The grassroots social media movement appears to have been started last week by Gaby Pacheco, who asked other to share their accomplishments under the hashtag. (There's also the Spanish hashtag #ConDACAlogre.
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DACA has enabled undocumented youths to get driver's licenses:
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Help their families:
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Afford college:
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And make their adopted country a safer place:
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We aren't exaggerating when we say it would be a tragedy to not allow this program to continue, and to not allow people serving this country more than some of its born citizens to leave it.
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Related: What Donald Trump Plans to Do in His First 100 Days of Office
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