“What makes someone American isn’t just blood or birth but allegiance to our founding principles and faith and the idea that anyone from anywhere can write the next chapter of our story,” stated President Barack Obama. In 2012, the Obama administration established the program that allowed young children to work and study, who were brought in the country illegally by their parents. They are known as DREAMers. As of 2017, with the new President, Donald Trump he was questioning this program and whether it should continue. So, should these children be allowed to stay in the US although they arrived illegally? This question splits society today and many ask if this program helps to US to prosper. Some individuals argue that the DACA program should be stopped as these children are not officially US citizens and they do not belong in the country as they entered illegally whether that be a fault of theirs or their parents. They believe that the hardworking citizens of the US should be put first and the illegal immigrants should be sent back to their place of birth as immigration is already a problem in the US and the DACA program constitutes a total of 800,000 undocumented immigrants. US citizens who are unemployed could then take the jobs of the DREAMers reducing the unemployment rate as well. …show more content…
They argue this because they believe that the children arrived in the US through no fault of their own and they should not be sent held accountable and sent back for the actions of their parents. They also state that if they are law abiding individuals and pose no threat and who are contributing to society by working and paying taxes just like regular US citizens. Why should they be treated any different than US citizens when they act the same? Furthermore, people that removing the program would be like disrespecting Obama and getting rid of his legacy and what he
The public engagement of the white House posted on their web 10 reasons why they needed the Dream Act. Summarizing argument's that two secretaries including other people have made for the act. The dream act will help our economy marketing easier for immigration enforcements efforts on undocumented immigrants "Who pose a threat to our country" (Zehr, 2010,). The development relief and education for aliens minors act or dream act provide a path for legalization for undocumented high school graduates who meet the requirements of completing two years of college, military service, have entered United States before the age of 16, must be between the age of 12 and 35 to complete the application, good moral character, and no criminal record. If the congress passed the dream act it would add $329 billion to U.S. economy impacting it by $181 billion creating 1.4 million new jobs and more than $10 billion increase revenue by 2030. Many Dream Act opponents call it an immigration amnesty. They say the proposal would immediately reward immigrant children with conditional lawful permanent resident status – and, in just a few years, they would become U.S. Citizens. Their criticisms do not reflect how immigration agencies operate immigration reform will be addressed by the Obama administration this year. Republican senators they were ready to announce the outline of a broad immigration reform bill that would include a path to “earned legalization”
About half a million children are born to undocumented immigrants every year. These children are not given the opportunities that they so rightly deserve. They spend their entire lives in the United States and are considered illegal immigrants. They are given no choice, but to live their life as an undocumented immigrant. That is what the DREAM Act is trying to solve. The DREAM Act, or Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors is a proposal that would provide permanent residency to undocumented immigrants who meet certain eligibility requirements (The DREAM Act). If the DREAM Act is approved, then the education will be improved. It will improve the economy, the military will receive a significant increase in recruitments, and
Back in 2012 President Obama granted protection to immigrants whose families illegally brought them the to United States as children. But many students are worried about what comes next, as the Trump Administration decides their fate.
Mary Dunford lives in Bridgewater Massachusetts and attended Cardinal Spellman High School is Brockton Massachusetts. Mary’s drive from her house to her high school was about 30 minutes. She was involved in many different sports, clubs, and activities during her years in High School. There were about 180 people in her graduating class who she was extremely close with.
The unjustified decision to end DACA has sparked numerous protests around the nation. The administration’s decision is unjustified because many of the people protected under this act are hardworking tax payers who obey laws just like any citizen of this nation. In general, Dreamers are motivated youthful individuals who have studied to better themselves and now pay taxes to this nation they call “home”. Some of which, only know English and
This is an article found on the Newsweek Global Periodical by Susan Scutti. In this article, the author discusses about how the One Child Policy amendment changed to two children if the father and mother are only children in their family. Scutti also mentions about the Chinese population, and how China is currently facing too many males than females.
When we were kids, we were told to dream big so we can be whatever we want to be. However, President Donald Trump wants to remove an action that protects kids who immigrated to the U.S. of a young age (dreamers). This decision has affected many kids and young adults who work and go to school. DACA has helped many dreamers go to school, college, work, and most importantly has provided protection from deportation. Although these kids don’t have immigration papers, they are still considered dreamers and have the same desires as natural born Americans. Many of these kids are upset because they know they won’t be able to learn and have a career in their own country; it’s impossible.
According to CNN, on September 5, US Attorney General Jefferson Sessions gradually terminated Mr. Obama’s policy of “Dreamers”, which is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and will be completely terminated in six months. This policy was introduced in 2012 to allow illegal immigrants who, under 16 years old enter the United States to apply for two-year repatriation and to allow them to apply for a work permit. As this policy allows renewal, it essentially allows illegal immigrant children to live permanently in the US. Based on DACA benefits for thousands of children, I think the government should keep DACA because terminating the policy and evading nearly a million young people who come to
In the United States, many families are currently being affected by the Dream Act’s failure to pass. The Dream Act would have given many undocumented children the ability to have a pathway to citizenship. The Dream Act believed in the importance of social support within the family by supporting family unification. However, due to its failure to pass, millions of undocumented children are now at risk of being deported and having their families divided. Although the U.S. government created a new policy known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), it is not providing immigrants with the same opportunity. DACA instead give undocumented people the opportunity to not be deported for a maximum of three years, but will never become a pathway to permanent citizenship. The Dream Act and DACA ultimately affects the physiological, emotional, and mental health of the immigrants who reside within the U.S.
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act of 2011, proposes to allow children of undocumented immigrants that were brought to the United States before their fifteenth birthday who have lived in America for at least five years straight to apply for permanent residency once they graduate from high school or achieve a GED. Conditionally, these children must be admitted into a college and complete a two-year degree or serve two years in the military. They must also be free of criminal convictions and have an honorable character. In addition, the DREAM Act would reverse current law to allow states to provide taxpayer subsidized in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. An estimated 1.1-2.1 million illegal
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was introduced in 2001, with yet to be completely passed into law, and was created in order to allow current, former, and future undocumented high-school graduates and GED recipients to pursue a three-step pathway to gain U.S. citizenship through work, college, or the armed services. The first step of this plan regards the recipient’s conditional permanent residence, meaning they have residential status for up to eight years. Secondly, the recipient must soon be granted lawful permanent residence, or a green card. And lastly, they can apply for citizenship after 5 years with their green card. To qualify for this, the child must have moved to the US before sixteen years of age,
They see that it is the wrong thing to do to make the parents separate from their kids and let a complete stranger to take care of them. If they go with their parents to their home country they would go to a country that everything will be new to them and it would be somewhere they don't belong because they already started their life here in the U.S.. Separating immigrant families would make the kids suffer not knowing who is going to take care of them as well as not knowing where their parents are, as well as having the chance of never being able seeing them again. According to The Atlantic “The mental toll and isolation on both parents and children who remain in the U.S. can be devastating, which is often compounded by a reluctance or inability to access mental-health care that might bring some relief.” (Emily Deruy ). The separation of the parents and kids have led to the kids having a mental toll on them since they no longer will see their parents as well as not having the chance to get any type of help to get through this crisis that them and their parents are going through. The deportation of illgela immigrant families leave a mental scar to not only the kids but also the
In June 2012 the Obama administration announced the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program grants deferred action (protection from deportation) and work authorization to certain young unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children, have pursued an education, and have not committed serious crimes or pose no national security threat (Hipsman, Faye, and Doris Meissner, 2014). Individuals who are granted DACA status are considered as being "lawful presence," regardless of their citizenship which makes individuals eligible for driver's licenses and other state-determined benefits where states choose to grant them (Adams, Angela, and Kerry S. Boyne, 2015). The individuals who apply to DACA have to go through intense background checks, which includes fingerprint analysis, to make sure the individuals are safe for society. For all purpose DACA students are one step closer to legal status and have been deemed to be helpful to society. Many opponents of in-state tuition for undocumented students claimed that because the students could not legally work the state would lose money, however DACA has changed things forever. Now the DACAmented students can get jobs and pursue the careers they studied for in college (Adams, Angela, and Kerry S. Boyne, 2015). According to Migration Policy Institute, it is estimated that 1.7 million individuals are eligible for the DACA program. As of March 2013, the program's rolling application process has seen 469,530 requests and USCIS has approved 245,493 cases (Hipsman, Faye, and Doris Meissner, 2014). These immigrants pay taxes (i.e, sales taxes) and now they are working legally, which means more revenue for the state in both wage and sales taxes. The third policy alternative would ease the worries of anti-Texas Dream Act in the respect that the students
Because the policy has many issues dealing with discriminatory actions towards groups , cultures, and raises. And the over all issues America has is not brought abound the illegal immigrants fault. The problem to all of our economy, population and use of resources is due to our government for allowing so many public resources for everyone. If the case is to isolate the illegal immigrants than why not give resources? For those reasons I strongly negate the resolution, we should change the immigration reform
As I read Genesis chapter 1-3, I was able to learn that God created the heavens and the earth in only six days and the seventh day God rested. He created man and his helper women with the idea for them to live in the garden of Eden with no worries. They would have all of the food they needed to eat provided for them by God. there was only one condition, they were not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent was a tricky creature and he convinced the Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. After Eve ate from the tree she convinced Adam to eat from it as well. Once they ate from the tree, the knew that they were naked. And this is what brought sin into the world.