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DACA: Helping The American Dream

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DACA means the world to me. It’s more than just a policy, it’s a policy that’s helping me and other live the American Dream, that our parents risk their lives for. It’s crazy to believe that back into 2014, I only believed in finishing high school and then working for the rest of my life at a job that I knew I was not going to love, but now I’m in Ephraim, Utah studying till 4 a.m. for my finals. If it wasn’t for DACA, I would not have been in my second year of college learning about something that I’m truly invested in. I have been able to expand my education further than ever. I hope to graduate in the spring of 2019 with my associate of science degree, then transfer to any University that accepts me. In the state of Utah, it’s hard to be …show more content…

With all these lives that the policy was helping, we were able to change the world by living the American Dreams that our parents came for. As DACA started growing rapidly, it started to become a vast controversial topic on why it is acceptable for immigrants to have those types of benefits or any benefits at all. DACA is effective because, its impacting the economy, and also since the economy is rising so were all the other opportunities. When President Obama started the program in June 2012, it felt like a monumental relief for those who weren’t able to get a good job with benefits, go to school, and open a bank account, etc. It was an inspirational moment for many, especially for those who got to officially have the opportunity to achieve their American Dream. “(The) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for me was a way of coming up for air after having been underwater all my life in a sea of uncertainty.” (Ms. …show more content…

“ I really don’t know why people are against DACA because its helping out teens that are, and that's what every parent wants into bettering kids. I really dislike the fact that trump is making a huge deal out of this when there's other things going on in the world right now.” (Favela, Bryan) ECONOMICAL As the ending of DACA, it made a huge influence on the economy. Meaning that since President Trump is taking it away there could be a huge change in our economy. “The economy could lose out on about $280 billion if the Trump Administration deports the nearly one million undocumented who qualified for the program, according to a January 2017 study from the CATO Institute.” (Abramson, Alana). Meaning that it could affect everything, since our country has at least 328 million people, and 1.75 million people have DACA. OPPORTUNITIES The court stressed that because immigrants cannot vote, They are silenced and shut out of our legal debate. According to the court, this fact undermines any argument that undocumented immigrants are not a suspect class since they do not have the political power to protect

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