Guillen — an undocumented Mexican migrant who'd come to Lufkin, Texas, when he was just 14 — graduated from Lufkin High School, went to church at his local Catholic parish, and — now grown up and with the protections offered by DACA — established a comfortable life working in construction and as a weekend DJ in his adopted hometown two hours north of Houston. He'd become too much of an American to watch the frightening images of flooding from Hurricane Harvey and not feel like he had to do something to help his neighbors — even after his father, Jesus, begged him not to go. Guillen and two friends borrowed a boat, drove south, and — when they reached the northern end of the flood zone in Spring, Texas — tried to rescue people trapped in an apartment complex.