A Federal Policy Directive

The United States has long wrestled with questions over immigration policy, with heavy partisan rancor characterizing the nature of illegal immigration as a political issue. As a humanitarian, economical and sociological issue, illegal immigration is not only a pressing issue but one that can invoke highly charged and emotional reaction from both sides. This was amply demonstrated this past week when President Obama announced that the Department of Homeland Security would be granting 'deferred action' status to a category of illegal immigrants falling into a qualifying set of demographic conditions. According to Julia Preston & John H. Cushman Jr.'s 2012 New York Times article entitled "Obama to Permit Young Migrants to Remain in U.S," the President used his executive authority to limit the number of deportations committed upon illegal immigrants by easing the status of the youngest of these.

You cannot watch the news lately without hearing something on DACA. DACA (Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals), which was an executive order signed by President Obama in hopes of encouraging congress to finally decide on immigration policies. DACA was created in 2012 by executive order by President Obama. According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center DACA, “is a prosecutorial discretion that provides a work permit and relief from removal for two years to certain eligible undocumented youth (DACA Fact Sheet). The youth that are eligible for DACA must be currently in school, have graduated or have a GED (General Education Development) certificate, have a clean adult criminal record and must be at

Background Information: President Barack Obama created DACA through a 2012 executive order. The program has allowed hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children to remain in the country. People who apply for the program can not have major criminal histories, and must have arrived in the U.S. before 2007, when they were under the age of 16. DACA recipients can live and work legally in the U.S. for renewable two-year periods. DACA was a agreement created by the Obama administration after Congress failed to approve the Dream Act. Experts estimate that about 11.5 million residents in the United States are unauthorized immigrants

For the past two decades in America, politicians have been trying to create an immigration reform, or that’s said so but it has been 26 years, and no results. The representative of Illinois Luis Gutierrez appears in the documentary Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe. He insists that “the fact is that Democrats have no place to stand because they didn’t act when they had a majority, so they have no place to stand,” (Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe). When I was a child, I use to think that the Democrats would never deport an immigrant. Indeed, I was wrong. After being in office for six years, Obama deported 2 million illegal immigrants. That made Obama the president who has deported the most immigrants in America's history. Frank Sharry is the founder and executive director of America’s Voice and America’s Voice Education Fund. Sharry is one of the nation’s leading spokespersons for immigration reforms. He mentions in the film Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe that “you know, someday, they’ll be passing congressional resolutions apologizing to how many immigrants families have been ripped apart by the awful stuff we’ve done in the last 20 years,” (Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe). It infuriates me that the Latino community must experience such an oppression just

Eric Hoffer once said, “It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as Native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was an American immigration policy passed by President Barrack Obama administration on June 15th, 2012 that permitted minors, also known as Dreamers, to enter the nation with no legal status. President Donald Trump has rescinded the DACA policy, that protected 800,000 immigrants, as of September 5th, 2017. The reversal of this policy will only serve to separate families, deny children much needed medical care, and limit their educational opportunities.

After hearing the news, I felt as if my worries were crawling right back up to my shoulders. As if I was at the top of the mountain and then had someone push back down. Finding out that the Senate has plans to take down the DACA was as if they were closing the doors to my success. As the Congress debates over immigration reform, August the 15th marks the second anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On the 15th of August 2012, President Obama began a policy calling for deferred action towards certain young individuals who came to the United States as children and are known as Dreamers(LOGOS). This policy allows this group of people to have similar rights that are initially reserved for the citizens of the United States, like applying for employment or having a social security. The Daca program also secures the young dreamers from deportation.

As of October 2017, DACA has been abolished by Congress and supports from the Trump Administration. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), established by the Department of Homeland Security on June 12, 2012, is a policy which helps illegal aliens that are coming into the United States get benefits that Congress did not act to provide by law. Many of these recipients are spread throughout the United States. In 2014, another policy called DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents) was expanded from the 2012 DACA policy. This policy was similar to DACA but it helped certain aliens who have children’s that have U.S. Citizenship. On June 29, 2017, Texas and several other states sent letters to the

The contentious debate over the Dream Act Movement in the U.S. is examined from a liberal perspective, focusing on three types: families, power, and rights. This paper will analyze the importance of the Dreamers that have played a vital role in the United States economy. Following, the advocacy of undocumented youth to realize the passage of the Development, Relief, and education for Alien Minors (DREAMER) act, limited by a bipartisan legislation that would entitle undocumented youth a pathway to citizenship. Using the Latino/Hispanic race framework to emphases socio-political that surrounds the immigrant debate. Moreover, the ways undocumented youth announce about their identity and agency and the ways they fabricate their demands publicly

The sixteen-year history of the DREAM Act has been futile — despite various sponsors and versions and dozens of votes, the bill has failed again and again. In June 2012, President Barack Obama issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, or DACA (Alcindor and Gay Stolberg), with the hope that eventually Congress would pass the DREAM Act. The executive action would “lift the shadow of deportation from these young people”, a generation of people known as DREAMers who were brought to the United States illegally as children, and grant work-authorization papers (Friedersdorf). Note that this action does not grant legal status. On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration rescinded the order leaving the more than 800,000 DREAMers unprotected, unable to attend higher education and unable to work legally. With six months until the rescission is fully active, Congress will be forced to decide on the DREAM Act

Within the past year, the Department of Justice under President Trump has ended Obama Era orders. One in particular is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA is an immigration policy that allowed for people who entered the country illegally as minors to stay within the U.S, work, and receive a two-year deferred action period from deportation. Trump revoked this order causing Homeland Security to stop processing applications. Since DACA has been revoked, federal courts across the country have begun proceedings to block parts of it. Although many are upset, congress has yet to rule upon the law and some effects have taken place. According to the Huffington Post, “since the September announcement, an estimated 11,000 young people have lost their deportation protections.” The effects that have already begun are concerns to the public because many people will begin to lose their ability to function within the American society.

As native-born Americans, we are given the opportunity to go to school and choose what to do with our lives, in other words, we are able to follow our dreams. However, our nation needs to accept the fact that not all people who have dreams are just the people here in America, the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is a policy for young male and female immigrants (who are also known as “dreamers”) that came to the United States illegally as children but have the ability to come out of the shadows from all the time they’ve been kept hidden from the eyes of anti-immigration conservatives. Dreamers are able to enroll in public school, receive a work permit, join the military, and get a driver’s license, and state identification card. Undocumented immigrants in the DACA organization are given an extension to their stay here in the United States for two years and then they would have to renew another suspension against the U.S. deportation system.

It was in June 2012, during the Obama administration, that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was passed. The policy focuses on American immigration and provides its recipients, who originally entered the country and minors, a two-year deferment from deportation and an eligibility for a work permit. Recently, with the Trump Administration, it was decided that DACA would be terminated. The end of DACA means the end to the hard work its recipients have done for themselves and this country.

Today, tThe visible number of unauthorized immigrants today in the US points to the fact that US immigration laws are outdated and inadequate to meet the 21st century needs of the nation in the 21st century. In American politics, Iimmigration reform has largely remained as a “valence” issue in American politics. Often, Tthe issue of immigration reform has often been overshadowed by other events from foreign wars, and national security threats to and the Great Recession that trickled down the in the US economy. Moreover, the hostile environment of partisan politics further impeded impedes comprehensive reform in the “broken” US immigration system. In the primetime address, President Obama expressed the dire need of Comprehensive

The article “9 facts that explain DACA, the immigration program Trump is threatening to end,” by Dara Lind presents key information about Obama’s program protecting millions of undocumented immigrants and how President Trump’s order to rescind DACA is causing a great impact in the Dreamer population. There are nearly 800,000 undocumented young adults who stopped fearing from getting deported, driving illegally and from not being able to work or study. All thanks to Obama’s program of protecting Dreamers in 2012. Thanks to DACA, (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) children whose parents brought them here illegally, now have the opportunity to try and fit into the

DACA also known as Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals is an American immigration policy that was established by the Obama administration in June of 2012. The policy allows some individuals that had entered or stayed in the country illegally as a minor apply for two-year period of deferred action from deportation. During those two years the recipients are able to work and go to school legally in the US. There are approximately 800,000 individuals that are recipients of DACA and in September of 2017 president Trumps administration rescinded the DACA policy.