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How To Write A DACA Argumentative Essay

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Jennifer Morales
Brayton
Language Arts 12
05 April 2018
DACA: Trump Leaves 800,000 ChildrenLliving in Fear
After my parents divorced, my sisters and I would go visit my dad in Arkansas every summer, but the only problem was that my older sister was never able to go with us on the plane. I never understood why until I got older and my sister came to me. She thought she would never be able to go to college and follow her dreams to become a doctor because she had found out that she was undocumented. It wasn’t until 2015 that my undocumented sister had the chance to become a DACA recipient.
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 …show more content…

In my opinion, this counter-argument is invalid because 800,000 benefited from DACA and it wouldn’t be fair to take that away from them to the point where they wouldn’t have anything left, he was just trying to do the right thing. Majority of people in the US are against DACA because they think that dreamers are receiving “special treatment”. “Denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing to same jobs to go to illegal aliens” (Jordan). Everyone has their own opinions, but it’s not fair to say that immigrants are receiving special treatment, they didn’t choose to be born in a different country they are just trying to make their parents proud of them, especially since their parents brought them here to have a better life and a better education. Believe it or not, they worked hard to be where they are today. Immigrants are here to stay, this is their country

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