When I heard about ending DACA, I was angry.

I was angry because most of these people were too young to make a decision, they should not suffer for the parents decisions for mistakes (if you consider it to be a mistake.) A toddler didn't decide to illegally come to this country, and it is the only land that they've ever lived in or known. You can look all over the internet to find stories of kids who were accepted or doing well in college only to find out they may be deported.

I'm here to share how DACA touched my life as a white American, when I least expected it. My best friend married a Hispanic male who is here on a work visa. They just got married about a year ago (not the three year length that makes the marriage 'official.' Her husband is a wonderful man, he works long hours, he never complains about working hard, he supports my best friend and is the type of husband most people hope for. His work visa expired next month and without DACA he faces deportation, married or not.

They are trying to buy a house, they are trying to start a life but they have no idea if they will get that chance.

With all of the things going on in this country, to target those who came here as children, have broken no laws and are working hard every single day, it makes me sick to my stomach that THIS is what has become a "priority."

Meanwhile the head of the EPA is denying climate change, the 'president' is lying/stalling about donating any money those who have lost everything in the hurricane. Whether you take North Korea seriously or not they are threatening us, and according to Trump's statements he finds many more people much more 'dangerous'.

Mexicans are not stealing your jobs, they work hard, they study hard, they love hard and are some of the best citizens that we have. Do you want to work in a field picking food in the hot sun with no breaks? Do you want to work at Trumps hotel for less than minimum wage? These are the jobs they are doing.

And even if they were (and I know some of them are) have nicer jobs, but are most of the people who see them as a threat going to learn new technology? Are they going to get a new job? Or just blame others for the fact that times are changing?

The truth is that if we don't accept technology, if we don't invest more in learning math and science and support technological innovation; it isn't any one ethnicity that will steal our standing in the world. It will be us letting us go because we are too lazy to adapt.