DAPA Community Forum Analysis

My attendance to the deeper than DAPA community forum was a life learning experience. I am grateful to have attended the forum because I was able to learn and get informed about a big problem in our community. Before the forum I knew little to nothing about DAPA, and even less about the significance to undocumented people. The environment in the room helped me feel close to home because of the amount of Latino students present, the pan dulce and champurrado. Just learning a brief history of the policies of DAPA/DACA+ helped empower and enlighten me. The presentation was hosted by Fernando and Magdaleno. Both the hosts did a great job in making everyone feel comfortable and excited to be spending there Friday evening on campus. I learned that
Sara thought she was never going to be able to work to fund her education and lost all hope. With the implementation of DACA her dream of receiving an education at UCLA became a reality. Another speaker that stood out was a second year by the name of Erika. Erika’s mother suffers from the mental illness Schizophrenia. Her mother was deported and arrested for being undocumented and Erika’s upbringing was tough. Erika closed her presentation with a quote that stayed with me, it goes as follows “you do with what you can or have”. No matter how tough the circumstances are in life you have to deal with what you have and continue living. My friend Josh had the privilege to speak in front of the audience and it was nice hearing what he had to say. He made good points about the citizenship test. He said that the citizenship is bullshit and that it is crazy how the government makes people from different countries learn about the history of U.S. United States citizens probably would not pass the test if they were tested. I believe that injustice is prevalent for undocumented people and there needs to be a