Some 800,000 Americans trusted

our government when they registered under the DACA program. They believed that by following the rules, this country — where they arrived as children and that is essentially their home country — would accept them as legal immigrants. Now, Trump has terminated the DACA program and threatens to begin deportations.

DREAMers are now at risk. All their personal information is in government files, available whenever it decides to come after these people — our neighbors, our colleagues, our friends, our employees and our service providers.

This threat and fear destroy the possibility of success for any future government program that asks people to trust a commitment. Anything can change whenever a selfserving, deceptive huckster or ideologue rises to power. Bruce Joffe Piedmont, Calif.