...Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is and will always be constitutional. However, the DACA program has been an unqualified success over recent month and years. DACA is a federal government program created in 2012 under Barack Obama to allow people brought to the US illegally as children the temporary right to live, study, and work in America (theguardian.com). Since its creation five years ago, it has allowed nearly 800,000 young men and women who came to this country as children — or Dreamers — to attend school, support their families, buy homes, begin careers, contribute to their communities, and pursue their dreams (aclu.org). The issue of immigration and how it relates to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is a diverse topic in today’s society that not too many people are very fond about. Many immigrants that reside in the United States are just looking for a better lifestyle for themselves and for their kids’ future as well. Therefore, it would unconstitutional to send back these immigrants that came looking for a better future, to be deported. It would be morally incorrect for the Trump administration to do so. Moreover, President Donald Trump anticipated on ending DACA...
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...On Sept. 5, President Trump announced his decision to rescind the Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an executive order created under Obama, that protects undocumented youths from deportation. “The temporary implementation of DACA by the Obama Administration, after Congress repeatedly rejected this amnesty-first approach, also helped spur a humanitarian crisis – the massive surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America including, in some cases, young people who would become members of violent gangs throughout our country, such as MS-13,” said President Donald Trump in a press release. “Only by the reliable enforcement of immigration law can we produce safe communities, a robust middle class, and economic fairness for all Americans.” Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, also called the DACA program an unconstitutional use of executive power, so over the next six-months the lives of the DACA recipients will be debated in Congress in hopes of creating immigration reform. But, by March 2018 the program will be completely phased out. This will affect 800,000 DACA (or DREAMers) across the nation, and over 240,000 in the state of Texas. These individuals were brought to the U.S. as children, and the majority are now young adults serving in the military, working and/or attending college. The University of Houston...
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...that President Obama are trying to properly execute throughout the states is changing life for immigrants today. Obama recently gave two Executive Orders, the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents for Americans), which are helping families resist separation. The big question on Obama’s immigration Executive Orders are if they are within the President’s power. It is Congress’s job to made the laws and the president’s to executive them, but with the creation of DAPA and DACA, many think that Obama is overstepping his authority. One big reason why President Obama felt the need to create his Executive Order is because of the what happened in 2013 when the Senate first created a bill addressing immigration. The bill was created by the Gang of Eight, which were composed of four Democrats and four Republicans, which was lead by Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer. They passed a bill with a vote of 68-32. The bill “promises to overhaul immigration laws for the first time since 1986…” (Silverleib). The 1,200 page document would change four things, the first is that it creates a new 13-year pathway for citizenship for a majority of the undocumented immigrants. It would also raise the cap on visas for highly skilled workers, while also creating a new visa program for lowly skilled workers who would be working on America’s farms. The issue that House of Representatives were most concerned with was border security, but the bill proposed adding “20...
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...They desired to give young immigrants a fair chance to education, work, and, most importantly, the American Dream. As a result, Obama proposed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a legislation that would allow minors without legal immigration status to apply for deferred action (“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”). According to the department of homeland security, this program would allow them to attend school, apply for a work permit, work towards a driver’s license, and other opportunities. However, this chance to a new life was stripped away by President Trump, who announced the termination of the program in September of 2017. President Trump justified his decision by arguing “that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages” (Shear and Davis). Contrary to the President’s beliefs, DACA is a program that provides minors with hope and opportunity, and should not be terminated. Terminating DACA dims the stars plastered across the flag and demotes the United States into a state of...
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...A part from the Native Americans, almost every citizen of the United States is an immigrant or the descendant of one. Despite being built by immigrants, the U.S. is notorious for mistreating them time and time again. Immigrants, especially those who are undocumented, face prejudice and discrimination. More recently, their legal rights have been compromised. Young undocumented immigrants seeking protection from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy will begin to lose most of their rights due to the repealment of the program. Furthermore, the state of the country altogether will be compromised and have rippling negative results. The reluctance of the United States government to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy,...
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...The White House’s Stance on Deportation of Illegal Immigrants In the New York Times article, “In the White House, debating how far to go in easing deportations,” authors Shear and Parker (2014) claim legislation is not moving as fast as it should on Capitol Hill. They state Republicans are stalling on the proposed changes to immigration laws causing the President to halt deportations (para. 7). The authors comment that if the President should take further action damage could occur with any future negotiations with Republicans. According to the writers, a number of people on Capitol Hill implied the Republicans could go as far as proposing impeachment of the President on the grounds of bending laws (para. 8). There are eleven million illegal immigrants in the United States and, recently, the President has exercised his power in changing laws causing a delay in deportations (para. 5) Shear and Parker (2014) states he has instructed the Department of Homeland Security to be more humane in their deportation process (para. 2). They report that one way the Department of Homeland Security is acting humane is by moving illegal families to the bottom of the list for deportation especially if a family member has the status of United States citizenship (para. 4). During a recent meeting, President Obama addressed a group of immigration activists stating he could not completely stop deportation of illegal immigrants without Congress’ approval (para. 1). Shear and Parker (2014) suggested...
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...for Immigration Enforcement (NSRIE) Act, American LAWS Act, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Authorization Act, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Authorization Act, Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act, PROTECT Immigration Act of 2017 and many many more immigration bills. More info at Congress.gov / immigration bills search One of the most recent big policy changes for immigration was on September 5th 2017 when President Donald Trump ended the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Act, also known as DACA or by their nickname the “DREAMers”. Approximately 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants have received work permits and protection from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, since its creation five years ago by Former President Barack Obama in 2012. Nearly 690,000 of these immigrants are currently enrolled in the program as of September 4th 2017, according to new data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This program completely ended on March 5th 2018. This was the deadline Congress had for coming up with an immigration reform legislation that included DACA policy reform. The outline plan for this legislation was that of a proposal for $25 billion to fund a wall along the Mexican border and a path to citizenship for those brought to the country as children who are now here illegally for the 1.8 million DACA eligible immigrants. Pew research center’s main research findings for DACA recipients are that...
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...Childhood obesity is a wide spread epidemic that will endanger our future generations. Obesity increases the risk of health problems resulting from excess body fat. Recently, first Lady Michelle Obama started her Let's Move program, which includes four goals: providing parents with information and support they need to help their children eat properly, ensuring that schools offer healthier food, helping children get regular physical activity, and ensuring that healthy food is available. Michelle Obama announced, “The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake” (M. Obama, 2010). The following paper will answer the question of why children become obese and offers possible solutions to prevent obesity. Without proper moderation and knowledge of nutritional values the current generation and future generations will continue to have their lives at risk. Exercise is also a key factor in attaining the correct body weight for the specific age and height of the child. It is important to prevent childhood obesity because it can cause many health problems for our children now and as they get older. Changing the following will decrease or maintain a healthy body weight: increase in activity, better nutrition, exercise and habits. Past generations were limited in technology, leading to youth spending more time physically playing outside. Today with so many technological options children no longer need to go outside...
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...4.11 Research the impact that the current administration has had thus far on immigration and refugees, bring notes to discuss with field instructor. 4.12 Expand knowledge of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and what the end of this program means for participants, and analyze America’s reaction to the end of this program, discuss with field instructor. 4.13 Complete Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services trainings on sexual exploitation and abuse, obtaining refugee status, allocations and assurances, and HIPPA guide to privacy and security, obtain verification of completion from the Canopy Resettlement Director and Case Manager. 5.14 Research the timeline set by Canopy for accomplishing the required tasks for each client in the 3 month period, and demonstrate an understanding by creating a simple time line to bring to supervision. 5.15 Familiarize self with Medicaid and SNAP applications and complete at least one of each, obtain verification of completion and bring it to supervision....
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...What is the Dreamers program, also sometimes referred as the DACA program? DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, giving protection to 800,000 young immigrants to have an opportunity to live in the US and receive a social security number (Bennet and Tanfani, 2017). Recently, Trump, with the help of U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced to end the DACA program, he “speaks of ‘love for these people’ and, with little guidance, gives Congress a deadline to help them” (Bennett and Tanfani, 2017). Taking away a major program granting undocumented people the ability to live a life without the fear of deportation is causing a major uproar in the U.S. with Dreamers, families and major companies. DACA gave people to an...
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...From the early childhood I was fascinated with the human movement. I grew up in a very active family, my mother was a college professor and passionate aerobic trainer, and my father was a professional basketball player. I was practically raised in gym and surrounded with sports all my life. Despite my love for sports, I later found my true passion for music. I began to play percussion instruments and learned great deal about discipline, persistence and power of practice. Combining my musical and sports experiences helped me to excel in musical programs and school sports, such as marathon and gymnastics. Unfortunately after the war started we had to move from our country. Ten years upon our arrival to USA my mother had an opportunity to afford a good hip replacement surgery. It wasn’t easy for my mother to be in so much pain all these years and still some after a successful operation. The painkillers she was taking long before the operation took tool on her emotionally and physically. She was strong and brave after all. She managed to follow her physical therapy program and her recovery was very good. After attending physical therapy visits with her, I realized how much I want to this kind of work. It felt so natural to me to be gentle and patient with hurt people, but at the same time strong and persistent. All my experiences and talents had meaning at this point, the patience and discipline to achieve remarkable goals seem to naturally exist in this line of work. It is...
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...Undocumented and DACA(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students face challenges that are unreasonable, students that have a DACA status and undocumented students should act against these challenges that are standing in the way of them furthering their education and bettering their lives. Summary of Opposing Views DACA and Undocumented students have been facing the United States immigration laws as they attempt to further their education here in the United States attending postsecondary institutions. Some argue that the DACA program protects over 800,000 undocumented immigrants, so that they can better their lives in the United States, while others think that DACA is allowing the immigrants to have the chance of not working for anything and still live good lives, attend postsecondary institutions, and acquire nice jobs while living in the U.S. while some people that are actual citizens can’t even find a job and they were born citizens of the United States.Immigrants have been finding their way into the United States every since the slavery era, although the government is trying to reduce the amount of immigrants entering the U.S. every year, the DACA program is giving more immigrants the opportunity to come...
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...I was born in Mexico and raised in the United States. At the age of fifteen, I was eligible to apply for a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). What DACA is, is it allows people to obtain a social security number to go to college and to get a job. Recently, administrative action has been taken and this program has been rescinded. I am in the 800,000 that has been affected by this decision. Many people who have DACA cannot reapply if it expires after a certain date. I got lucky because I still get the chance to renew my DACA. Getting into a college is very important to me. I will be the first one in my family to go to college. Being able to get into Georgia State University would be an honor. GSU offers a film program....
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...The minor is protected under the DACA program that grants their access to education in order for a permanent stay. It would be an injustice if their rights for citizenship were taken away because of their illegal status. Children should not be objectified on their status because they are not politically developed to interpret the policies against immigration. The ambition for these young individuals is not to break the law of the land, but to build a better future for themselves and their family. Their minds to construct a path to the American dream are what defines this country and purpose among its...
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...Nearly 800,000 out of 12 million undocumented immigrants came to the USA as a child. These kids don’t have a legal document to stay in the USA. A program called the deferred action for childhood arrival which is DACA was then established in the presidency of Barack Obama. These 800,000-young people were granted a temporary protection from deportation and allowed to work and live under this program. These young talented undocumented students deserve a secondary education since, they did not choose to come to the US illegally and, they will also help to boost the economy of this country. This new policy that is called ‘DACA’ will benefit thousands of undocumented students living here in the United States that were brought...
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