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DACA Argumentative Essay

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On June 15, 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Program also known as "DACA," was created by President Barack Obama. The Program was designed to aid and protect Illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States when they were children. DACA also provides authorization to work with benefits such as healthcare and social security card.
In early March of 2017, President Trump wanted to put an end to DACA. According to Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, he called an “amnesty-first approach” and urged Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months. Some of the 800,000 young adults conveyed to the United States illegally as children who were qualified for the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, will end up eligible for deportation. Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who declared the change at the Justice Department, both used …show more content…

"Mr. Trump said in a statement that he was driven by a concern for the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair system. Mr. Sessions said the program had “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs" (Shear and Davis, 2017). As a result, of that, a protest broke out in front of the white house and the Justice Department and cities across the country. The Democrats, some Republicans business executives, college presidents and immigrants deemed this act as coldhearted and unfair, especially for young undocumented immigrants. Trump's intentions of deporting illegal immigrants could harm the economy. In spite of his campaign guarantee to extradite as it were those with criminal records,

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