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Where do local representatives stand on DACA?

Salud Carbajal.
Salud Carbajal.

I really appreciated the Sept. 8 letter to the editor from our mayor, Heidi Harmon, in support of DACA. I understand Rep. Salud Carbajal also is in strong support of The Dreamers … but where are our other elected representatives? They should speak up.

Let’s keep San Luis Obispo a friendly place — a place that shows respect to everyone. How about we here in San Luis Obispo practice the Golden Rule? Let’s treat everyone — no matter where or when they were born — exactly the same way we’d like to be treated ourselves.

To deport honest, hardworking young students who have lived here almost their entire lives? That’s a sick, mean, no-class idea and certainly not one that represents me, my family and all my friends who live here.

Tom Ogren, San Luis Obispo

This story was originally published September 18, 2017 at 9:12 AM with the headline "Where do local representatives stand on DACA?."

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