When signing this paper I believed that I was doing the right thing and preventing people who had lived their whole lives here from being sent to a country they had never to been. I later when to go hang out with some of my friends and found out that some of her cousins relied on DOCA to stay in the United States. I did not personally know any of my friend's cousins but after finding out this information I saw the people I was signing this document for no longer as strangers but as Mothers, bothers, fathers, and sisters. These mean something to somebody uprooting them from their live is not the correct thing to do. I felt more pride in my decision when signing this paper and faith in myself that signing it was the right thing to do.
As I read this blog, I realize that certain people even on the other side of who aren't affected by DOCA realize that keeping this program would be the right thing to do. These people who are in the program were brought here by their parents or guardians. They had no choice, they were raised in America, brought up in America and most only know what lies in America because they never went back to there country of origin.
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