...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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...worry about their immigration status. In 2012, Barack Obama passed a policy named DACA standing for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals after many years of being declined by other presidents. “The policy permits individuals who were brought in the United States as children to receive a valid work permit and a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation” (Amuedo-Dorantes and Antman 339). However, this policy contains requirements such as children must have arrived in the U.S before 2007, ages range from fifteen to thirty-one and no criminal record. Several individuals were given the opportunity to continue...
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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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...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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...congressman consist of The RAISE Act, The clean dream Act, The nuclear family priority Act, Save America comprehensive immigration Act, Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2017, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017, Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Act of 2017, No State Resources 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...
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...During the presidency of Bill Clinton, The Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, was establish. Due to amendments, made in August 2001. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, also 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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...Hillary Clinton is in favor of immigration reforms that would make it much easier for immigrants to enter the country. She proposes to continue what is being done now with DREAMers, DACA and DAPA. If the DREAM Act had been passed, in some instances children who were illegally brought into the country and went to an American school could be given legal status. The act was not passed. DREAMers are the children who would qualify, but have not been given to a legal status. Clinton will pass the DREAM Act if she is elected. (1)DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This means that if an illegal immigrant came to the country as a child and apply to the guidelines they can ask for deferred action. Deferred action means that they are applying for their removal or...
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...In the book Illegal immigration by David Haugen, stated that Obama blamed congress for inaction. “He advocates a ‘path toward citizenship’ for those non criminal aliens living and working in the country. On July 1, 2010 Barack Obama stated, “I believe we can put politics aside and finally have an immigration system that's accountable. I believe we can appeal not to people's fears but to their hoped, to their highest ideals, because that is who we are as Americans.” DACA is also known as Deferred Action for Children Arrival, it is a program that gives hope to many illegal immigrant who were brought to the United States under the age of 31 of age, as of June 15, 2012; and came before the age of 16. They also, has to be living in the United...
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...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. As long as if they pass the background check, most of the people will benefit from this are unauthorized immigrants who are...
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...Immigration and Immigrants A Pathway to Permanency Immigration and Immigrants: A Pathway to Permanency American culture has been shaped by immigrants from all around the world dating back to the founding of this country. Since the beginning, people have migrated to the United States for relief and opportunity. The United States is currently experiencing a new wave of immigration; namely Latinos. Many of whom are migrating to escape the dangers of their homeland. Others are migrating to move beyond the political chaos and economic deprivation of their countries in hopes of having an opportunity at the American Dream and all of its promises. It can be agreed that immigrants come to the United States for the betterment of themselves and their families. However, their dreams are often shattered by the obstacles of gaining residency and citizenship no matter the length of the time they have resided in the United States. While immigrants are the foundation of our nation, immigration regulations were put into place in the 1700’s and has undergone changes throughout the years. Over the past several decades, there has been an emphasis on immigrants’ impact on our economy. In our current state combined with the vast amount of illegal immigrants entering and residing in the United States, immigration and immigrants are significant to America’s success. Our country’s international stature is dependent upon the advancements we make to enhance the lives of our young immigrant population;...
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...When President Trump rescinded DACA, he decided that your classmates can be deported. Trump made DACA recipients a political ball and tossed it to Congress’ court, but DACA was created by executive action because Congress put politics before people and failed young immigrants. Since President Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2012, it has benefited 787,580 young immigrants. By rescinding it, up to 983 DACA recipients would lose their protected status daily. According to the Department of Homeland Security, now officials will potentially arrest and deport any undocumented immigrant without protected status regardless of a criminal record. It's already happening, noncriminal immigrant arrests doubled in Trump's first 100 days as president....
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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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...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’m on a ticking time‒in June of 2019 my DACA permission ends‒ so do my dreams, my income, my footprint, my support, and my motives”(Rivera). In an interview with Andrea Rivera, a family friend, she explains how DACA has affected her life and how the ending of DACA is not the answer. DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012 to give undocumented children temporary residence in the United States, eligibility for a driver licence, and work permit at 15. DACA was passed to grant these undocumented children or better known as“Dreamers” assurance that they could remain in the United States without the fear of being deported. As of recent, under Trump’s Administration, the program is no longer taking new applicants and renewals will not be processed after March 5, 2018. DACA should be replaced in the form...
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...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 in the United States, creating more tax revenue. Approving an immigration...
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