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Argumentative Essay On Undocumented Immigrants

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September 4th, 2017. According to the author Alan Gomez who wrote an article on the USA Today website news, President of the United States, Donald Trump has reported that had made an announcement of considering ending the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals Program, also known as DACA. DACA was created by the former President of the United States, Barack Obama back in 2012, but the program also created through a memorandum from the Department of Homeland Security. DACA was created to allows two-years stays for certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country before the children age of 16th birthday who have attended school and others who never committed any serious crime in their own country. Undocumented immigrants who are eligible will received a renewable two-year period of deportation protections and they also allow to have a permit to work in the United States. For those who are eligible, Barack Obama tells them that they are a Dreamer (Immigrants illegally who brought to the United States as a child and whose lives will be upended). There are still a total of 1.9 million undocumented immigrants who are eligible to apply for the DACA program, but many have not yet. According to the Gomez, Donald Trump will give the Congress six months period to take actions in removing DACA. Besides that, according to the news reported by the Politico news reported, Attorney General Jeff Sessions who helped the president to persuade him to terminate the DACA program had

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