Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act
On September 5, 2017, Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis wrote the article, Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act. On this day, President Donald Trump said that he would be putting an end to the DACA Program that was created during Barack Obama’s Presidency. President Trump is now discussing the issue of revoking DACA due to his early comments in the election about immigration laws, “The announcement was an effort by Mr. Trump to honor the law-and-order message of his campaign, which included a repeated pledge to end Mr. Obama’s immigration policy, while seeking to avoid the emotionally charged and politically perilous consequences of targeting a sympathetic group
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The authors are able to avoid logical fallacies by only giving out the needed information and quoting necessary people. Overall, the article gives accurate information that readers will find necessary about what President Trump wants to do with the DACA program.
The authors are able to incorporate both stances on the DACA issue, by doing this, they are able to prevent strong or discernible biases of the topic. Shear and Davis included both stances by quoting opposing people’s opinions. For example, they quoted President Donald Trump, who intends to revoke DACA, he says that the reason for his concern about DACA is, “the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair job system.” But the authors also quote former President Barack Obama, who helped create the DACA program, when he heard of Trump’s plan he stated, “Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn’t threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us.” The quotes are able to give the reader an unbiased perspective of the topic. Criticism is only shown in the article when the authors quote other people, either criticizing DACA or criticizing the people trying to revoke it. Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions criticize DACA, but Mark Zuckerberg, Marielena Hincapie, and
It was his decision to announce, on September 5, that his administration would be winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program he didn’t mention outright, that many people didn’t know about and even fewer understood. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected nearly 800,000 young adult unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012. The immigrants protected through DACA grew up in the US; people might not assume they are unauthorized immigrants, and they might not have even known it themselves until they were teenagers. The program was supposed to give them a chance to build a life here. Now, DACA is on the chopping block. Trump, under pressure to make a decision about it’s future before September 5 (the day a group of Republican state officials were set to sue over its constitutionality), has decided that no one new will be protected under the program and that those currently covered will start to lose
Daca enables young people to follow their dreams and with trump trying to cancel daca it has devastated the nation, yet he says we have 6 months till Congress makes a decision on either to legalize Daca, or to cancel it , it should not have to be a decision to make.So many children and teenagers are getting their lives torn apart, all accomplishments and achievements, all their effort they put into their lives, jobs and education, would be for nothing. He's taking jobs and educational opportunities away from innocent people who are the ones that are “making america great” again, then the ones that are living in america, not even taking advantage of the opportunities they are given in this country. Most teens who do have the opportunity to get a good education and a good job, usually end up taking it for granted, they don't appreciate what they have, and don't see what others would do to have what they have.
As he pointed in a statement released by the White House, “DACA is an unconstitutional exercise of authority; failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.” (The New York Times) The controversy between legal status and who are considered citizens of the United States only demonstrates the flaws and complexity of the US constitution. Politicians have been taken advantage of the mistakes portrayed in the constitution as a way to manipulate laws and actions from a racist point view as we are
Trumps decision to end DACA was based that his administration was being threatened by states like Texas, Arkansas, West Virginia and Kanas, that they will sue if they do not take steps to end the DACA program by September of this year. If we look at how many people will affected by this which is 800,000 young adults. These people will be in threat of being deported to a country where they have never been to. Majority of these kids have been here since they were new born to toddlers. They don’t see what kind of damage they will be causing not only to them but also the
In September of 2017, the Trump administration made a statement saying that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) will come to an end, calling the program unconstitutional and criticizing it as "unilateral executive amnesty." DACA is an executive order created by former President Barack Obama, and the program allows hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who came to the United States as a child illegally to remain in the United States. The majority of applicants to DACA cannot have serious criminal history and must have been brought to the US before 2007, under the age of 16. DACA allows for these young people to live and work inside the US legally without risk of deportation. Now, the issue with Trump ending
If the program was not coming to an end the article would not have been made, making it have kairos. Sanchez mention Congress in the passage to notify the audience where the news is coming from. Congress works with the president and gave "lawmakers a six-month deadline" (Sanchez). This allows the audience that the elimination of the DACA program is a serious issue. Sanchez then cites 'Migration Policy Institute' and states that "76 percent of all DACA-eligible immigrants are currently in the labor force," (Sanchez) representing that immigrant did not come to America for no reason. Moreover, Migration Policy Institute mentions that a "quarter of them" (Sanchez) are involved in a college education or
This election represented so much, that I could elaborate on, but; for the sake of the article, I will speak to the existing threat to students and their families nationwide, including the nearly 1 million college students that have been enrolled under the (DACA) program.
President Donald Trump has stated that DACA is being eliminated because it is unconstitutional. Grizzlies who are DACA are afraid that going to college will cease to be an option since most do not have money to pay for college themselves.
On September 5, 2017, president Donald Trump announced that DACA will soon come to an end. DACA, a program that was formed to give young immigrants hope, was the light in which we could seek a better form of living. DACA helped its recipients by allowing them to work legally in the United States, and also allowed its recipients to pursue higher education. Overall, it drastically improved the lives of their families following along with theirs. DACA was the blanket for us young immigrants.
President trump has also stated that “”no second thoughts” about his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which shields young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation. ” Many people have different views on D.A.C.A which is why it has taken so long of anyone to come up with a final decision on weather it will stay or it will be removed. They are also those small present of people who doesn’t really care what happens to the program and has no thoughts on it. And they are also people who disagreed with it because it has to do with Obama and they are trying to get ride of many things Obama has don’t that they deem to be un needed or a bad
This was an informational article due to the subject that was covered. The researcher took the time to find people that would give their opinions and observations on a subject that they are proximate to them. In closing, Comprehensive immigration reform is needed, as are evaluations of how current policies are being
In the first paragraph, the author presents the reader with multiple quotes from the Former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer. Spicer argues about the subject of prosecutorial discretion against Dreamer and uses Felony Tax Evasion to explain the absurdity of selectively choosing when to uphold laws. The author does include a solution from Sean Spicer’s quote, saying “They should petition our lawmakers and the government will change it” (Spicer Paragraph three). This quote doesn’t support the author’s point of view and leaves the reader confused. The author then proceeds to imply that the President is,“Taking to the Extreme” when it comes to upholding the law. The author switches tones in the next paragraph to more of
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program (DACA) has helped stimulate the United States financially; by canceling it the Trump Administration has doomed our economy. Lawmakers have quite a task ahead of them as they try to traverse the tumultuous territory that is the DACA cancelation. However, one of the largest, if not the largest, problems that this move has created is the threat it poses to the nation’s economy. Bombastically, the Trump Administration made a move that seemed to be supported by its followers. Yet, further analysis of the cancelation seems to greatly cripple the United States, estimating that the nation stands to lose $215 billion if the former DACA recipients are deported.
On September 5th 2017, the current president of the United States of America, Donald Trump destroyed the lives of a generation of immigrants by deciding to put an end to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). DACA is an American immigration policy that allows some individuals who entered the country as
For many years, undocumented families have worried about getting deported, their kids not being able to have a higher education or not being able to have jobs. It soon all changed when President Barack Obama, our 44th president, created a program named “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).”