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Guilt is my thematic theme because Hale felt this guilt. He wanted to get rid of this guilt by persuading Proctor to sign. He knew he did wrong, and that "there is blood on my hand". Guilt makes a person feel terrible about themselves. Just like an issue that was recent with Trump. He decided to end DACA. Trump is of higher authority, and he made this decision. He later on said that he gave Congress till March to make a new decision up for this young people. If Congress didn't come up with anything he would rethink his decision. This just shows how he felt personal guilt because many said it was a cruel decision. He was being criticized for it.

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Afterwards, how a person feels with guilt.

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The weight Hale felt when he knew all this people were dead because of him.

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Guilt Trump felt when people were attacking him for the decision he made

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Trump thought he was doing a good for America ending the dream of many young people. Afterwards, when he made his decision it seemed that he felt the guilt in himself. He told Congress to come up with plan, and if they can't he himself was going to rethink his choice.

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What 'Dreamers' Gained From DACA

About 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We spoke with a few of them in September, when President Trump announced his intention to end the Obama-era program.

"The politicians are using us like a sport, you know, they're using us like punching bags." "Democrats and Republicans alike have to stand up for us because there are DACA beneficiaries in every state." "I was brought when I was 11" " ... when I was 7, from Brazil." "I was about 10." "I was 12 years old." "I was 7 years old." " ... about 8 years old." "We crossed the border, but we were little." "So I've been here 18 years." "I'm 29 years old." "I am 20." "I am 19 years old." "I've been here for 21 years." "I am 27 years old now." "I am 23 years old and I am originally from Mexico." "When DACA was announced, I remember exactly where I was in 2012. I was at the Museum of American History." "Before DACA I always felt like I was in between two worlds. I was born in Honduras. But if I were to go back to Honduras, it's like I'm foreign to them." "It's a tug of war. When you're undocumented, you're always just aware of the situations, of the locations, who you were talking to, how you are interacting with folks, ensuring that you don't do anything that will bring attention to you because you live a life of shadows." "You know, I have been able to accomplish a lot more than when I was undocumented. To get a social security number, loans from the bank, a better job." "Every time my parents call me after 11 p.m., it's like my heart is racing. When you are an immigrant in this country, you wake up every day with the fear that you could be taken away, right, that your family could be broken up." "I have been preparing my kids of, for, you know, These are the risk[s]. This could happen to your dad and to me." "I just can't imagine, you know, my nieces and nephews being separated from their parents or them going back to a country that they don't know because this is their home. They shouldn't live with that fear that I had to grow up with. That's not a normal life. That's not normal. And I know that like my friends that are U.S. citizens don't go through that. And nobody should go through that." "I'm not leaving my home, and I think if Trump ever wanted to talk to us, if he wanted to talk to these Dreamers he would realize that we love this country. We want to stay here, and ... " " ... if it's taken away, I'm losing my job, I'm losing the opportunity to work and school. People don't understand but it's a big thing, it's a huge thing, it's privileges that some people here take for granted." "Taking DACA away is like taking a family member away from me. That wall that Donald Trump wants to build, you know, it's putting a wall in front of me where I won't be able to move forward. You are not just taking something away from us, but you're taking something away from this country." "This land is not a white America. It's not. This is a land of immigrants." "I mean, I was already a person before DACA. A lot of people say, 'Oh, you know, what's going to happen after DACA?' I'm not going down without a fight." "You know, whatever happens next, I love this country and I belong here." "I'm fighting for my family, "I'm fighting for the friends of mine that can't even stand up because they're scared." "We just want to stay here and contribute to this country, to the economy ... We are good people. We're not criminals."

About 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We spoke with a few of them in September, when President Trump announced his intention to end the Obama-era program.

WASHINGTON - [Read more on the Supreme Court's decision on President Trump and DACA.]

President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an "amnesty-first approach" and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months.

As early as March, officials said, some of the 800,000 young adults brought to the United States illegally as children who qualify for the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, will become eligible for deportation. The five-year-old policy allows them to remain without fear of immediate removal from the country and gives them the right to work legally.

Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of anti-immigrant activists, arguing that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.

Mr. Trump said in a statement that he was driven by a concern for "the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair system." Mr. Sessions said the program had "denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs."

Protests broke out in front of the White House and the Justice Department and in cities across the country soon after Mr. Sessions's announcement. Democrats and some Republicans, business executives, college presidents and immigration activists condemned the move as a coldhearted and shortsighted effort that was unfair to the young immigrants and could harm the economy.

"This is a sad day for our country," Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, wrote on his personal page. "It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it."

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President Trump is winding down DACA. But Trump and his administration have at times suggested that this wouldn't happen. Credit Credit... Tom Brenner/The New York Times

Former President Barack Obama, who had warned that any threat to the program would prompt him to speak out, called his successor's decision "wrong," "self-defeating" and "cruel."

"Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn't threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us," Mr. Obama wrote on Facebook.

Both he and Mr. Trump said the onus was now on lawmakers to protect the young immigrants as part of a broader overhaul of the immigration system that would also toughen enforcement.

But despite broad and longstanding bipartisan support for measures to legalize unauthorized immigrants brought to the United States as children, the odds of a sweeping immigration deal in a deeply divided Congress appeared long. Legislation to protect the "dreamers" has also repeatedly died in Congress.

Just hours after the angry reaction to Mr. Trump's decision, the president appeared to have second thoughts. In a late-evening tweet, Mr. Trump specifically called on Congress to "legalize DACA," something his administration's officials had declined to do earlier in the day.

Mr. Trump also warned lawmakers that if they do not legislate a program similar to the one Mr. Obama created through executive authority, he will "revisit this issue!" - a statement sure to inject more uncertainty into the ultimate fate of the young, undocumented immigrants who have been benefiting from the program since 2012.

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Protesters marched from the White House toward Trump International Hotel on Tuesday after the announcement that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was ending. Credit... Alex Wroblewski for The New York Times

Conservatives praised Mr. Trump's move, though some expressed frustration that he had taken so long to rescind the program and that the gradual phaseout could mean that some immigrants retained protection from deportation until October 2019.

The White House portrayed the decision as a matter of legal necessity, given that nine Republican state attorneys general had threatened to sue to halt the program immediately if Mr. Trump did not act.

Months of internal White House debate preceded the move, as did the president's public display of his own conflicted feelings. He once referred to DACA recipients as "incredible kids."

The president's wavering was reflected in a day of conflicting messages from him and his team. Hours after his statement was released, Mr. Trump told reporters that he had "great love" for the beneficiaries of the program he had just ended.

"I have a love for these people, and hopefully now Congress will be able to help them and do it properly," he said. But he notably did not endorse bipartisan legislation to codify the program's protections, leaving it unclear whether he would back such a solution.

Mr. Trump's aides were negotiating late into Monday evening with one another about precisely how the plan to wind down the program would be executed. Until Tuesday morning, some aides believed the president had settled on a plan that would be more generous, giving more of the program's recipients the option to renew their protections.

But even taking into account Mr. Trump's contradictory language, the rollout of his decision was smoother than his early moves to crack down on immigration, particularly the botched execution in January of his ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

In addition to the public statement from Mr. Sessions and a White House question-and-answer session, the president was ready on Tuesday with the lengthy written statement, and officials at the Justice and Homeland Security Departments provided detailed briefings and distributed information to reporters in advance.

Mr. Trump sought to portray his move as a compassionate effort to head off the expected legal challenge that White House officials said would have forced an immediate and highly disruptive end to the program. But he also denounced the policy, saying it helped spark a "massive surge" of immigrants from Central America, some of whom went on to become members of violent gangs like MS-13. Some immigration critics contend that programs like DACA, started under Mr. Obama, encouraged Central Americans to enter the United States, hoping to stay permanently. Tens of thousands of migrants surged across America's southern border in the summer of 2014, many of them children fleeing dangerous gangs.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, indicated that Mr. Trump would support legislation to "fix" the DACA program, as long as Congress passed it as part of a broader immigration overhaul to strengthen the border, protect American jobs and enhance enforcement.

"The president wants to see responsible immigration reform, and he wants that to be part of it," Ms. Sanders said, referring to a permanent solution for the young immigrants. "Something needs to be done. It's Congress's job to do that. And we want to be part of that process."

Later on Tuesday, Marc Short, Mr. Trump's top legislative official, told reporters on Capitol Hill that the White House would release principles for such a plan in the coming days, input that at least one key member of Congress indicated would be crucial.

Three DACA recipients - Sofia Ruales, left; her sister Erica Ruales; and their cousin Marlon Ruales - listened on Tuesday near Trump Tower in Manhattan to Attorney General Jeff Sessions's announcement. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times

"It is important that the White House clearly outline what kind of legislation the president is willing to sign," Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said in a statement. "We have no time to waste on ideas that do not have the votes to pass or that the president won't sign."

The announcement was an effort by Mr. Trump to honor the law-and-order message of his campaign, which included a repeated pledge to end Mr. Obama's immigration policy, while seeking to avoid the emotionally charged and politically perilous consequences of targeting a sympathetic group of immigrants.

Mr. Trump's decision came less than two weeks after he pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who drew intense criticism for his aggressive pursuit of unauthorized immigrants, which earned him a criminal contempt conviction.

The blame-averse president told a confidante over the past few days that he realized that he had gotten himself into a politically untenable position. As late as one hour before the decision was to be announced, administration officials privately expressed concern that Mr. Trump might not fully grasp the details of the steps he was about to take, and when he discovered their full impact, would change his mind, according to a person familiar with their thinking who was not authorized to comment on it and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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The "wind down" of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will affect an estimated 800,000 individuals. Credit Credit... Tom Brenner/The New York Times

But ultimately, the president followed through on his campaign pledge at the urging of Mr. Sessions and other hard-line members inside his White House, including Stephen Miller, his top domestic policy adviser.

The announcement started the clock on revoking legal status from those protected under the program.

Officials said DACA recipients whose legal status expires on or before March 5 would be able to renew their two-year period of legal status as long as they apply by Oct. 5. But the announcement means that if Congress fails to act, immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children could face deportation as early as March 6 to countries where many left at such young ages that they have no memory of them.

Immigration officials said they did not intend to actively target the young immigrants as priorities for deportation, though without the program's protection, they would be considered subject to removal from the United States and would no longer be able to work legally.

Officials said some of the young immigrants could be prevented from returning to the United States if they traveled abroad.

Immigration advocates took little comfort from the administration's assurances, describing the president's decision as deeply disturbing and vowing to shift their demands for protections to Capitol Hill.

Marielena Hincapié, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, called Mr. Trump's decision "nothing short of hypocrisy, cruelty and cowardice." Maria Praeli, a recipient of protection under the program, criticized Mr. Sessions and Mr. Trump for talking "about us as if we don't matter and as if this isn't our home."

The Mexican foreign ministry issued a statement saying the "Mexican government deeply regrets" Mr. Trump's decision.

As recently as July, Mr. Trump expressed skepticism about the prospect of a broad legislative deal.

"What I'd like to do is a comprehensive immigration plan," he told reporters. "But our country and political forces are not ready yet."

As for DACA, he said: "There are two sides of a story. It's always tough."

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Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act (Published 2017)

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WASHINGTON - [Read more on the Supreme Court's decision on President Trump and DACA .] President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an "amnesty-first approach" and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months.

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Hale came back when he knew John Proctor was being executed. He felt that personal guilt in himself because at first he thought he was doing a good in Salem, but then realized that for his fault innocent people were dead.

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" There is blood on my head"