30 Years Old on a Two-Year DACA Lease

Описание: Source: NPR — https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/g-s1-1...

'We're not kids anymore': The DACA generation hits their 30s with an unstable future
Recipients of the Obama-era DACA program are aging, even as the Trump administration moves to weaken the program's protections and benefits.

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[Intro]

They told us to wait. We waited.

[Verse 1]
They called us Dreamers back in twenty-twelve, gave us a name
Obama signed the order, put some rules inside the game
But we're hitting thirty now, this ain't a high school debate
We're paying mortgages and taxes, pulling weight in every state
Now the Trump administration's moving in to tear it down
Stripping back the DACA benefits in every single town
We ain't kids no more, we're the engine of the street
Thirty years of building homes, standing on our own two feet

[Chorus]

We ain't kids anymore, the grace period is gone
You took a lifetime of labor and you called it a con
Building the houses, paving the streets, paying the tax
While politicians make a living stabbing our backs
Ya no somos niños, the illusion is dead
Just a thirty-year hustle hanging by a thread

They want the harvest, they don't want the hands.

[Verse 2]

Stephen Miller writing memos in a suite up in D.C.
Trying to figure out a way to take the floor from under me
Tom Homan on the screen talking about a massive sweep
They sell the panic so their own pockets get deep
Look at the math, tell me what you see
We pay into the system for a ghost retiree
Can't get a mortgage when your status is a two-year lease
Can't plan a future when the wolves control the peace

[Chorus]

We ain't kids anymore, the grace period is gone
You took a lifetime of labor and you called it a con
Building the houses, paving the streets, paying the tax
While politicians make a living stabbing our backs
Ya no somos niños, the illusion is dead
Just a thirty-year hustle hanging by a thread

They want the harvest, they don't want the hands.

[Bridge]

You hold a piece of paper over someone's head for twenty years.
You expect them to stay quiet. You expect them to just wait.
But the math changes when you have to feed your own.
You can't rip up the roots when the tree is fully grown.
Ya no somos niños, el juego cambió.
Esa tierra es tuya, que nadie diga que no.

[Verse 3]

So you wake up at six and you go back to the site
You carry the weight because you know how to fight
They keep moving the goalpost, they keep changing the lock
But a piece of paper doesn't stop the clock
We're in our thirties, we're the spine of this machine
You can't erase us from the ledger, we're the only ones you've seen

[Outro]

We're not kids anymore.
We're the floor you're standing on.
Try to pull it out. See what falls.

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