Fear of deportation is a real fear that most Americans will never know.

President Obama’s DACA program was a well-meaning effort to protect those people brought into the United States illegally. However Obama did not understand the illegal immigrant’s fear of being arrested and being deported.  That fear is most likely prompted by the illegal parents of those children.

When the program was first announced I immediately identified the potential consequence of announcing to the government your name and address.  What if the program was ended? I asked.  Wouldn’t ICE know exactly where to look for all those children and their families.  That same quandary exists in states that have granted driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.  Their addresses are now public record.  ICE now can obtain those addresses and deport those people.

So when Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, suggest many DACA eligible people were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy,’ he is half correct.  They were ‘too afraid.’  We can see why those concerns are well founded as more illegal aliens, or those suspected of being here illegally, are being arrested.

By the way my family moved legally to the United States when I was six months old.  I would not have divulged my name and address to any government office and I would not have applied for a driver’s license if I was an illegal alien.  It would be out of fear!

When I renew my passport I have to surrender my citizenship document.  After reviewing it they return it along with my new passport.  I am always concerned that some bureaucrat will not return that citizenship document.

My sympathies are with the people brought here as children.