...Immigration reform essay: According to Pew Research Center, there are roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the u.s. as of 2015. This is so far one of the best estimates we have today on how many illegal immigrants reside in the u.s. When looking at illegal immigration patterns across other developed nations these numbers tend to be much lower (CITATION NEEDED). In the u.s we have seventy five percent of our illegal immigration coming from mexico while the other twenty five percent is from various latin and south american countries (citation needed). With the current amount of illegal immigrants residing in our country our political leaders must be able to make immigration reform possible. There are a few ways to do this. The Conservative...
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...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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...known as The DREAM Act was enacted (Congress, 2001). Based on this enactment, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was created. This production was established to give children that, are living in the United States without legal status. These children although, living in the U.S. are not considered legal citizens because, they were not born in The United States, but brought by, parents or guardian. Section three of, the Congressional Record of the 107th Congress: “The Dream Act, allows children to obtain a college degree...
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...to make changes in immigration policy. The new immigration plan will not only protect many unlawful immigrants from being deported but it also gains them access in obtaining driver licenses and social security cards. In another word, they will be legally to work in United States but it offers no path to citizenship. This will open a path for many high skilled workers to the United States labor force. Another major change is that Obama’s action will end a program called Secure Communities, therefore Immigration and Custom Enforcement as well as other law enforcement agencies will begin to priority their focus on criminals and felons rather than working families and security on the border will be increased. While many Americans think this is a righteous move that should have been done long ago to fix our broken immigration policy, the plan is opposed strongly by the Republicans. President Obama has no option but to use his executive action. House Speaker John Boehner states that the president is acting like a king or emperor with his executive action on the new immigration reform. The plan is also facing lawsuit from many different states, but Obama administration believes that the policies could withstand any lawsuit. Obama says in his speech, “The actions I’m taking are not only lawful; they’re the kind of actions taken by every single Republican President and every Democratic President for the past half century.” Funding is not an issue for the new immigration reform as it is self-funded...
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...Public Policy: Immigration The reforms 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...
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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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...Making Children’s Dreams Come True Immigration has been a heavily debated issue in United States politics for decades. It is a topic that policymakers weigh in on concerns of the nation’s security and its economy. Congress, which is in charge of evaluating laws is unable to effectively resolve an agreement on establishing a reform for immigration, making the decision policies transfer onto the executive branch. The executive’s responsibility to place a definitive reform on immigration will lead to dissatisfaction with the states and local governments. The notion of the immigration system has always been confounding to its own legislature that constitutes regulations on the naturalization process. In these case, children who came here illegally...
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...For example, immigrants can get paid as low as $7.00 an hour, and there education isn’t all that great because immigrants start working at a young age instead of school to help their families out. So when immigrant kids try to go to school and try to have a successful future, you have trump who is getting rid of Daca. Daca stands for “Deferred action for Childhood Arrivals” and what it does is “American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors, and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit.” According to Wikipedia, “As of 2017, approximately 800,000 individuals—referred to as Dreamers after the DREAM Act bill—were enrolled in the program created by DACA. The policy was established by the Obama administration in June 2012 and rescinded by the Trump administration in September 2017.” The dream act, aka daca, was a big help for the education purposes of immigrant kids. Immigrant kids aren’t at fault for their parents actions so therefore they shouldn’t be punished for...
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...| Immigration Reform | Why it should be Approved | IMMIGRATION REFORM Immigration, the popular government topic we hear about every day, and are not nearly close to resolving. Immigration, immigration reform, amnesty, Dream Act, and the “Dreamers” are all popular news topics these days. Immigration reform should be the path way to citizenship for all illegal immigrants, providing work permits, helping stimulate money for the economy and help keep families together. Provding work permits in the US for illegal immigrants is a great benefit to them. In August of 2012 President Obama’s administration approved the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “As of May 31, 2013, USCIS has accepted about 520,000 DACA applications. They have approved a little over 365,000 and denied 3,816 applications.” (Leiva, 2013) This was a major accomplishment for the Dreamers who in 2001 introduced the DREAM Act and was denied in several occasions. Although DACA is a temporary solution to immigration reform it’s a great step forward. The majority of the applicants are college graduates with Associates and Bachelor’s degrees who until now weren’t able to work in their graduate field. Even though some states have opposed President Obama’s order for DACA with restricting approved applicants with not being able to have a driver’s license they have overcome it with other means or moving to a DACA friendly state. Immigrants who got approved under the age of 30 are able to work legally...
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...Immigration How many people are deported each year? The Obama administration deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013, continuing a streak of stepped up enforcement that has resulted in more than 2 million deportations since Obama took office, newly released Department of Homeland Security data show (pew research center). Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. On this essay im going to be talking about the immigration issues in the united states, was the presidents actions constitutional, how much does the government make a year from the immigration, immigration expensives, the places that the immigration is happening at. Executive actions are often controversial, with members...
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...An immigration Reform It is not news that our immigration system is broken and it is in urgent need of an immigration reform. Throughout the years, many families have been separated from their loved ones because the government has still not sign an immigration reform. Families live day-by-day in fear of deportation. We have to do something about the immigration process and finally come up with a reform that will see everyone as a human beings and not illegal aliens. There is no question that this country was built by immigrants, yet the government is afraid to let people in. They only want people of a certain category. Only those with an impeccable record, scientists and those workers in high demand. But others with less than this attributions to the country would not qualify for the reform that the government wants. “Senate bill 744 establishes clear preferences regarding the type of immigrant the United States should accept, the upwards striving student with an impeccable record, the computer programmer recruited from Mumbai to Silicon Valley.” On November 20, 2014 President Obama announced executive action to protect millions of immigrants from deportation, called DACA. But it was only two categories that qualify. “The first are the undocumented parents of United States citizens or legal permanent residents who have been in the United States since January 1, 2010. The second are undocumented children who arrived in the United States before the age of sixteen and have...
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...“DACA means everything to me...DACA has become a reassuring force to many students like myself who’s only desire is to be given an education in order to become a successful factor of this society ” (The New York Times). This quote came from Miriam Ochoa-Garibay, a political science major at UCR and a participant in the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals program, who recently told her story as a part of a New York Times opinion piece. Miriam is one of the 800,000 “DREAMers” who came to the United States as children who find protection through the DACA policy and a perfect example of a life improved by the program (Lind). She came to the United States as a two year old but would have been incapable of receiving financial aid or legal work...
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...The Unites States created a second version of the Bracero Program in 1942 (Rural Migration News, 2006) to circumvent a labor shortage in agriculture due to World War II. This policy enabled Mexican workers to work the fields and railroads in America, and provided cheap labor for the U.S. Although the policy ended in 1947 the practice of workers migrating illegally to work the fields seasonally continued. Consequently illegal border crossings from Mexico appears to peak seasonally, from spring to early summer. This suggests that Mexicans cross the border for work and a chance at a better life, and not for the purpose of draining America’s government aid. In response to this in 1965 the U.S. enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act, which prohibited unskilled laborers from Mexico to gain legal permanent resident visas (Planas, 2014). In 1977 Congress capped the number of immigrant visas given out to Mexico to 30,000. This resulted in a surge of illegal border crossings. The DREAM Act legislation was introduced in 2001 (Lawlogix, 2013) and DACA was introduced in 2012 (Robertson, 2018) to offer a pathway for children brought to America...
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...The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is a very controversial topic today. DACA is an immigration policy that protects eligible immigrant teens/young adults who came to the United States when they were children from deportation. This policy also allows “Dreamers” to work legally and continue on with their education (Berkeley University of California). DACA was ended in September of this year by President Trump. Ending DACA will have a negative impact on hundreds of thousands of people, about 800,000 to be exact. Dreamers will lose their education and jobs, and the nation’s economy will also be affected. In the first place, DACA provides dreamers with a work permit to have many employment opportunities that were not available for them before. According to Business Insider, ending DACA will cost the jobs of about 700,000 people. These undocumented immigrants will have to work long hours and their wages will be drastically dropped. They will also have to be paid under the table because it is illegal for them to work. Many Americans believe that undocumented...
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...Do you really think that illegal immigrants are a danger to Americans? Do you really think they want to harm Americans? This issue is about reasons behind why immigrants migrate to the U.S and I will tell you why they mean no harm to the United States. Illegal immigration is not a threat to America's national security. They come to the U.S for a better life. Second reason is because illegal immigrants decrease criminal rate. Last reason is that by blocking them, it will not make them go away. Immigrants come to the United States for a reason. The that they want a better life. They are leaving their country because of the problems their countries are having. Issitt Micah L. stated that "immigrants leave their countries of origin for a variety...
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