Oh, no you don't. Not the top student at MY alma mater.

At 22, Omar Salinas Chacon has already accomplished more and overcome more racist, unAmerican obstacles than every fascist, torturing, Constitution-fucking ICE agent in the country put together.

That the trumpie stormtroopers would even think about deporting Salinas Chacon is a mountain of shame on us, the American citizens who are letting it happen.

From the Herald:

By any measure, Eastern Kentucky University senior Omar Salinas Chacon is a model student.

With a double major in political science and Spanish, a longtime member of student government and a captain of the mock trial team, Salinas Chacon recently was named “Student of the Year” by the National Collegiate Honors Council, the top prize in the nation for honors students. After graduation, he plans to go to law school to help those less fortunate than himself.

But right now, Salinas Chacon, 22, can’t see a future beyond October 2019. That’s when his status as a legal resident ends under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives legal status to children brought to this country by their parents. The program is at the center of a protracted political argument in Washington. Unless Congress reaches a compromise, Salinas Chacon and hundreds of thousands of others who were born elsewhere but grew up in the United States could be targeted for deportation in coming months and years.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article201739959.html#storylink=cpy

“We work hard for this country, and this is our home. We don’t know any other,” said Salinas Chacon, who came from El Salvador at age 5 after his father and grandfather were kidnapped by gangs. He and his brother grew up in Nashville and Louisville. “But now the rug is being pulled out from under us and we’re being played as chess pieces in a bigger political game.”

 

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The U.S. Supreme Court could decide Friday if it will review the lower court’s ban on DACA deportations.

Despite the turmoil and uncertainty, Salinas Chacon has stayed busy. He’s a peer mentor to other Latino students and works as the student assistant to the director of the EKU Latino Retention program. (Because of his immigration status, he cannot receive federal financial aid to help pay for college.)

“Omar stands as a paragon example of exactly what is at stake in this policy debate,” said Dr. David Coleman, director of EKU’s Honors Program. “Although always a stellar student, he has because of his immigration status been ineligible to apply for many of the nationally competitive fellowships for which he otherwise would have been extremely competitive.”

Dreamers are fighting.  We have to get their backs.