Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

In his study, Gonzales sets his attention on two groups of undocumented youths: the early exiters and the college-goers. Both groups are similar in many ways; however, one group receives positive reinforcement from liable people more than the other group. Gonzales’s purpose in writing this book is to inform the reader the struggles of being an undocumented minor and/or

There was a record number of unaccompanied child migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border the summer of 2014. These young people hoped to flee from violence, and poverty affecting their countries. This wave of migrants garnered a lot of attention due to the fact that in the first half of 2014, more than 57,000 children arrived in the U.S. This was more than twice the number of arrivals as the ones that made it to the U.S.-Mexico border in all of the fiscal year of 2013.

Most people’s families have that immigrated to America generations ago. Thus, they do not understand the difficulties of immigrating to America. In the last 2 decades. A young twelve-year old child came to America from India along with her two siblings, mother, and father in the 1980s. They were provided safe haven in New York, a sanctuary city, until their immigration process began. A sanctuary city like New York, does exactly what they for that family by providing protection for undocumented immigrants . These cities do so by refusing to follow federal detention requests. There exists a large demographic of people who disagree with the idea of sanctuary cities in America. Since this demographic is against the idea of undocumented immigration

I am writing you this letter for reasons of why repealing DACA will negatively affect the people in our community. As a person from Harrisburg, it has been noticeable that DACA has improved and impacted our city ever since the start of the program. The program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an authoritative help in exportation from American territory. The motivation behind DACA is to secure qualified foreigner youth who went to the United States when they were kids from expulsion. DACA gives youthful undocumented migrants assurance from extradition and a work permit for people to earn money and sustain their family. The program is provided for low-income undocumented people in poverty and will allow two years of work, subject

“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” per President Trump about Mexico. A massive understatement, as one study indicates that an increase in immigrant concentration in American cities may even lead to a decrease in crime (MacDonald). Yet, a problem remains. Illegal immigrants have broken the law to be in the United States (US), even if they have committed no other crimes while in the US. That said, programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that reprieves the children of illegal immigrants from deportation and allows them to receive work permits, encourages immigrants to illegally seek refuge in the US. More problematic, the program is fleeting and, in the long run, does not provide undocumented immigrants with the protection they truly need.

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 problem is that these individuals that are not born in the United State have to have DACA if they want to meet their goal in life, without someone saying “no” due to their immigration status. DACA helped many young immigrant people receive a social security number, a work permit, and register for state benefits like state tuition and scholarships (605). During June 15, 2012 the whole DACA situation changed. Where President Obama made it legal for these people to receive jobs, a social

Immigration policies have had a tendency to violate human rights. These immigration policies, along with others, resulted in the global apartheid in the U.S. Some policies required more patrol enforcement at the border which made the journey for immigrants to the U.S. more rigorous. This enforcement has caused for immigrants to actually not look into migrating to the U.S. Also, with the local law enforcement working together with the border patrol has resulted into a huge problem, racial profiling. In racial profiling, even though there are immi-grants from all over the world, Latinos are mostly targeted. The policies, while they have in-creased deportation rates, they have affected the deportee’s U.S. citizen children.

“Necesitamos una reforma migratoria integral con un camino hacia la ciudadanía plena e igualitaria.” (We need comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship.)- Hillary Clinton. In the United States, there are 11.4 million of undocumented people. Therefore ideas have been presented towards aiding undocumented people: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) Visas,which allow people to come to the U.S. for a certain amount of time, and Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAMers). Consequently, those do not always allow them to qualify for citizenship. A path to citizenship is an important issue in this election, because there are 11.4 undocumented

A common misconception is that legalizing illegal immigrants would just result in “criminals” running around the streets causing disturbances. Who is ignored is the benefit of a very specific population of Americans, the sons and daughters of illegal immigrants. American children are harmed every time one or both of their parents is deported as a result of the lack of an immigration reform. In the article, “Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle When Parents Are Deported” Valbrun states that “the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011, according to the ARC report.” In these conditions, jailed parents cannot fight for their children’s custody and at times lose it to the government who then puts the children out for adoption or in foster care when they already have loving parents. Properly legalizing immigrants would improve the lives of many American children and improve the American social aspects with more

The majority of American children grow up learning that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. There is little room for argument against the idea that the United States is a nation founded on immigration. However, there are some Americans who contend to the idea that new immigrants should not be allowed into United States and should receive no help adapting to their new culture. When people travel to the United States, the majority choose to bring their children with them. These children leave their homes and must come face to face with their new surroundings. If children are rejected at the border, what does that say about American citizens? How the children are treated by their peers can have a considerable impact on their likelihood of success. If nearly 44 million foreign-born people live in the United States 22 percent of those people are children, that leaves with America nearly 10 million immigrant children who may need assistance while trying to go through school. Immigrant children are typically described as those who have at least one foreign-born parent. These children deserve the same opportunities to succeed as the typical American born children. With assistance, immigrant children are likely to graduate high school and even move forward with college. If American citizens wish to make the United States a better place, they must move forward with helping the immigrant children.

In the United States, US born children also suffer when it comes to immigration and deportation because although they are US born, their parents are not, parents are at major risk of being deported because a large part of them entered the country illegally or with a Visa but remained in the country after it expired. In the past decade, nearly 2 million persons were removed from the country, 81 % of them to Latin America. Of the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, 52 % are from Mexico (Passel et al. 2013), placing them at greatest risk for deportation. Because of the workplace raids that occurred in 2006 and 2007, 900 undocumented

Children of undocumented immigrants are entitled to public education, because the U.S. constitution guarantees that migrant children and children born in the U.S. have equal educational opportunities. European immigrants migrated to the United States without question of their legal status, and were able to easily blend in, however, in the current time, race plays a great part in how people perceive undocumented migrants. Children are the future of our country and their education shouldn’t be determined by their parent’s legal status. I plan to use this article to explain how immigrants are treated differently than they were in the past, and how race may play a role into it.

As current president Barack Obama stated, “Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine you’ve done everything right your entire life… only to suddenly face the threat of deportation to a country that you know nothing about, with a language that you may not even speak” (Obama). These kids, who know little of their home country, have grown up in America for most of their childhood as law abiding children who lack U.S. citizenship. Back at home, children are frequently on the front lines of danger, and so a parent’s only option is to pay up to $7500 to smuggle their child into America (Ross). Until America reassesses this issue with illegal alien minors, young, innocent children will be returned to a poverty-stricken lifestyle with no way out.

Immigration has played an important role throughout American history. What fundamentally sets America apart from other nations is the foundation that it was created by immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their children (Camarota & Zeigler, 2016). During times of economic growth, laborers have been imported, and deported during recessions (Flores, 2016). An average of 1.1 million immigrants relocate to the United States annually (Storesletten, 2000). US Customs and Border Control officials, have witnessed a significant increase in the number of “unaccompanied alien minors” from Latin America, anticipating 75,000 minors (if not more) from 2016 to 2017 (Rush, 2016). The average age for “unaccompanied alien minors” is 11 years