If you believed this past weekend might be your last few days of freedom, what would you do?

How would you have spent your time?

That is what I asked a young man in that position.

Imagine if you were him.

What it's like to be a 'dreamer'

You never have been convicted of any crime, or accused of any crime.

You were carried across the border by your parents when you were too young to remember. All that you have known is life in America. You live here. You can recall living nowhere else. You’ve gone to school here. You are still going to school here, now it is community college.

You have siblings who were born in this country.

You have relatives.

You have friends.

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You have gone to birthday parties and to weddings and to funerals. You have played in youth sports programs. You have gone on dates. You have a girlfriend.

You and your family have been members of the same church for as long as you can remember.

You have lived in the same house. Your father works. Your mother has worked.

You didn’t understand the legal situation when you were younger but you have known for several years that there is a possibility your parents might be picked up by authorities and deported. It has happened to people you know.

Your mother and father are good people, hardworking. They have taught their children to work hard. To dream.

That is what some people call you – a “dreamer.”

It is what you call yourself at some of the rallies you have attended.

There's only 1 thing to do: Pray

Former President Barack Obama issued an executive order that permits individuals who were illegally brought to the United States as children, as you were, to seek temporary protection from deportation and renewable two-year work permits.

In Arizona there are said to be roughly 28,000 young people protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. There are more than 800,000 in the nation.

President Donald Trump has said he will abolish this program.

Many members of his own party do not want him to do this. Business owners do not want him to do this. Clergy members don’t want him to do this. Educators don’t want him to do this.

The president said that he would announce his decision after Labor Day weekend.

When Trump held a rally in downtown Phoenix late last month you were outside the convention center. You approached a local newspaper columnist whom you’d seen talking to some Trump supporters. You told him of your dreamer status and how you loved this country, your country.

You contacted that columnist late last week when you heard that Trump’s decision was coming after the weekend. You told him you felt as if this might be your last weekend of freedom.

He asked you how you intended to spend it.

You answered him with one word:

“Praying.”

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