Childhood Arrivals

DACA (sometimes called the Dreamers law) allowed people that came to the U.S. illegally as children to stay. Some people say those immigrants should be allowed to stay because they didn’t choose to come to America illegally and have only known America as their homeland. Others say their plight is sad, but the law is the law. Although the DACA program helps a few, this program should be dramatically changed because illegal immigrants can come here and not pay taxes while they get free healthcare and financial aid.

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.

About 400,000 illegal immigrants come to the United States each year, each one with their own story and reasons. These illegal immigrants often have sorrowful stories that make you want to sympathize with them, but these immigrants never think about how their presence affects the United States. On September 5th, “President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the DACA program; they contended that undocumented immigrants took economic opportunities away from citizens and lawful permanent residents” (DREAM). The DACA program was created in 2012 by President Obama and allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. Recently, President Trump ended the program, but gave Congress a window to formulate a better plan

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act), is a proposed bipartisan legislation that is meant to provide amnesty and relief

It is intended to toughen U.S. immigration law; border security is to be enforced and employers are now required to monitor the immigration status of their employees. It also, however, grants amnesty to nearly three million immigrants – mostly Mexicans – who had quietly slipped across the border during the 1970s and '80s

While living illegally in the U.S., their children that are born here are considered citizens and are eligible for social economic programs. According to a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, “Many immigrant families get welfare through the eligibility of their U.S. citizen children. It is also important to realize that even when immigrants are ineligible for federal welfare programs, the burden of their support is simply shifted over to state and local welfare agencies.”(1-2). Trying to solve such a widespread problem has been a major goal of the U.S. congress since before the welfare reform bill of 1996. In his column, Ron Paul says, “Amnesty for illegal immigrants is not the answer. Millions of people who broke the law by entering, staying, and working in our country illegally should not be rewarded with a visa. Why should lawbreakers obtain a free pass, while those seeking to immigrate legally face years of paperwork and long waits for a visa?”(1).

The U.S. has always being considered the land of opportunities. Back in my home country opportunities were very scarce, which led to my family immigrating to the U.S. for a better future. Having had firsthand experience in the immigration transition system, it has been captivating to hear in the news about the Executive Order Obama issued on November 20, 2014. Seeing families getting separated, violence raising in the Mexican border, and the increasing Latin population in the U.S. signaled the need for this Executive Order in immigrant communities. Even though the Constitution states that Congress has the duty of writing our Nation’s laws, President Obama declared an Executive Order on Immigration. It is believed to be a political boom for

In 1986 Ronald Regan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, an amnesty act that would alleviate the current immigration problems. Through this law, out of five million illegal immigrants, an estimated four million could have applied to become legal U.S. Citizens. This law was supposed to put a definite stop to illegal immigration into the United States. However, ever since the law was enacted, statistics show that the numbers of illegal immigrants in the United States have ascended from an estimated 5 million in 1986, to about 11 million today. Therefore because of these rising numbers, immigration has been one of the most popular topics in U.S. elections and debates. So on November 20th 2014, President Obama announced to the nation the executive actions that he 's planning to take to fix our nation 's broken immigration system.

Immigrants across the nation are now targeted with the fear of deportation once more. Fifth of September 2017 marked the end of a program that allowed immigrants an opportunity to continue living the "American Dream" along with the possibility to become an American citizen. The termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the most controversial issue in the United States with both parties armed with comments of fire.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy that allows certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country before their 16th birthday and before june 2007 to receive a renewable two years work permit and exemption from deportation. DACA does confer non-immigrants legal status but does not provide a pote to citizenship. The DACA program was formed through executive order by former president Barack Obama in 2012 and allows certain of people called Dreamer, who come to US illegally as minors to be protected from immediate deportion. Now Trump administration announced on tuesday the wind down of an obama era program is end.

These children/youths were brought by their parents illegally making many eligible for DACA which is linked to the high volume of DACA applications. Facts such as this proves the need for a policy like DACA. On the other hand, members of our society constantly ask “why should we care”. We should care because children should be given the opportunity to thrive and succeed regardless of their documentation status. Society should care because the prospects and potential for this group success is limited, but more importantly, the discrimination, isolation and fear that they go through should not be experienced by any child or adolescent in our

This is amnesty, and I oppose it… Amnesty would be unfair to those who were here lawfully, and it would invite further waves of illegal immigration…” Additionally, Robert Byrd (Senate) stated in his excerpts from his Address to the United States Senate, “To capriciously grant amnesty to three million immigrants who circumvented these processes, who have resided and worked in this country illegally, sends exactly the wrong message”. The wrong message being that amnesty only invites more illegal immigrants into the country without reprimanding the ones who are currently here. However, the secondary problem here, as Bush recognized and stated is that, “…it is neither wise, nor realistic to round up millions of people, many with deep roots in the United States, and send them across the border”. Admittedly, amnesty seems to manifest several problems, mainly with continued unlawful immigration, however; it does not make sense to send millions of integrated immigrants out of the country. Instead, a partial amnesty could be granted, which would be fairer to lawful immigrants, but also give illegal immigrants a chance to lawfully obtain citizenship and continue living in the United States.

The program was a 2012 executive order by the Obama administration that granted the dreamers permission to work, study and live in the United Sates without getting deported. It was an Attempt to help the 800,000 Immigrants who were brought to the U.S as kids or Babies.

The proposed comprehensive immigration reform plan had as one of its goals bipartisan support, and included six sections designed to have "something for everyone." The six sections includes ways to fix border enforcement, “interior enforcement,” such as preventing visa overstays, preventing people from working without a work permit, creating a committee to adapt the number of visas available to changing economic times, a program to provide a reasonable path to legal status for illegal immigrants, and programs to help immigrants adjust to life in the United States. Individual States can regulate and or produce immigration

In 2014, immigration reform was a highly controversial political issue in the United States. Both sides of the issue saw the need for reform, but tended to disagree on what that reform should look like. Even where there was broad bipartisan agreement, some members of Congress refused to cooperate and real progress was often halted. Barack Obama, president at the time, frustrated with the failure to pass a legislative solution, decided to move forward unilaterally with a series of measures designed to improve the outdated immigration system. These included streamlining the legal immigration process and giving some undocumented immigrants protection from deportation in exchange for registering and paying taxes. When announcing his executive action, Barack Obama gave a speech offering a defense for his own actions.