Immigration Reform Should Not Be Eligible For Work Authorization

On June 15, 2012 President Obama put in an executive order called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) which cancelled or delayed any form of punishment to these migrants from deportation of their children if their

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

Many are irate at the decision to end DACA, while questions still arise of what will happen to the “DREAMERS”

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.

Obama did not like what he saw when they did not pass this act. He did not want to see these kids left in the dark he did not want to see them become something other than their best selves so on June 15, 2012 President Obama creates DACA. Now we can answer the big question people have been asking is “What is DACA?” DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This allowed some people who came into the United states as minors, who came in illegally and remained in the United States received a renewed two year period of “deferred action”. They are able to work with a work permit and they are able to go to school as well. And this policy was made in 2012. The immigrants were only eligible if they came into the United States at or under the age of sixteen. Some criteria that had to be fulfilled for a person to qualify for DACA are: entering the United States with a non

The President had a fight on his hands from federal courts when Judge Andrew S. Hanen of Texas, who is of Mexican heritage, issued a restraining order obstructing the President’s executive order concerning deportation. Mr. Obama’s order would give temporary resident standing to about four million illegal’s. Twenty-five Republican governors supported Judge Hanen’s decision that a federal agency cannot establish rules without Congress. Other court cases attempt to define what an illegal really is in terms of status. There are children of illegals born in the United States, there are people who have over stayed their work visas, families, and long terms residents who work hard, pay taxes, and follow the laws of the lad. No one wants to see families separated, children left in the United States without parents, etc. The list is long and everybody has their own story to tell. The definition of “illegal” is someone who is in a country that they are not a citizen of or were not born in. among other things. Judges shape public policy for years after they are no longer sitting on the Court. In conclusion, where you are for a path way to citizenship for illegal

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

In June 2012, President Obama announced a new immigration policy that grants certain undocumented immigrants deportation exceptions. The policy, formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also gives young undocumented immigrants work authorization. DACA’s requirements are relatively stringent: beneficiaries not only need a high school education, but also must have immigrated to the U.S. at a young age. Despite DACA’s restrictions, the policy has proven controversial. Although Democrats have cheered DACA as a step towards comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans have denounced DACA as an example of executive overreach. The conservative organization Heritage Action for America, for instance, has accused DACA of leading “residents of foreign lands [to] illegally enter the U.S.” Indeed, according to Heritage Action, Obama’s so-called “amnesty” policy gives undocumented immigrants the belief that “they will not be returned home.”

The sixteen-year history of the DREAM Act has been futile — despite various sponsors and versions and dozens of votes, the bill has failed again and again. In June 2012, President Barack Obama issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, or DACA (Alcindor and Gay Stolberg), with the hope that eventually Congress would pass the DREAM Act. The executive action would “lift the shadow of deportation from these young people”, a generation of people known as DREAMers who were brought to the United States illegally as children, and grant work-authorization papers (Friedersdorf). Note that this action does not grant legal status. On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration rescinded the order leaving the more than 800,000 DREAMers unprotected, unable to attend higher education and unable to work legally. With six months until the rescission is fully active, Congress will be forced to decide on the DREAM Act

As a result of strict immigration policies, the majority of ineligible voters do not have the rights voters have in influencing political change that may better their own lives. However, since the division between voters and nonvoters is not as definitive as party lines, policy changes occur according to what party is in power. After the 2016 election, President Trump and his cabinet have implemented immigration policies that have already affected families across the United States. The Trump administration is not afraid to be aggressive in their actions when it comes to the issue of immigration and undocumented individuals residing in the U.S. Although it seems as if nonvoters are the ones that favor lenient immigration policies, data has shown that voters do not favor strict deportation measures such as the ones ICE is currently undergoing. Voter preferences can influence policy to change to some extent, but only if a mass mobilization of non-voters and future voters is enacted and collective action among these individuals takes

I do not believe anyone was expecting the SCOTUS to take up the decision to hear the DAPA and DACA Expansion Executive Order to occur so fast. This is going to have political consequences in my opinion.

Within the past year, the Department of Justice under President Trump has ended Obama Era orders. One in particular is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA is an immigration policy that allowed for people who entered the country illegally as minors to stay within the U.S, work, and receive a two-year deferred action period from deportation. Trump revoked this order causing Homeland Security to stop processing applications. Since DACA has been revoked, federal courts across the country have begun proceedings to block parts of it. Although many are upset, congress has yet to rule upon the law and some effects have taken place. According to the Huffington Post, “since the September announcement, an estimated 11,000 young people have lost their deportation protections.” The effects that have already begun are concerns to the public because many people will begin to lose their ability to function within the American society.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the new immigration reform that was introduced by President Barack Obama. The issue has been split between politicians because one side wants illegal immigrants to face deportation while others want to make drastic changes to improve the broken system, so President Obama decided to take his own legal action on the issue. “Three critical elements of the President’s executive actions are: cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, deporting felons not families, and accountability by passing criminal background checks and paying their fair share of taxes” (The White House). Every year hundreds of thousands of immigrants come into the United States illegally. These immigrants come to America for a variety of reasons; whether it’s hoping for a chance at a better life or escaping violence and poverty in their home country. America’s immigration system has been broken for decades. Too many employers cheat the system by hiring undocumented workers who don’t have proper work authorization. There are millions of people living in the shadows that are afraid of being caught by authorities and sent back. These ongoing problems are neither good for the economy or the country. Obama has argued that this has been an ongoing problem for decades and that its time to fix this broken system. “The President’s actions will streamline legal immigration to boost our economy and will promote naturalization for those who qualify” (The White

As President Trump’s March deadline for the discontinuation DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) rapidly approaches both houses of congress are fervently seeking for a compromise immigration policy. While the willingness of the Trump Administration to discontinue DACA places the futures of these “dreamers” in the balance, ironically a compromise that makes the protections of DACA recipients permanent and also provides a pathway toward citizenship could ultimately benefit the dreamers more fully than President Obama’s executive order could have ever done. Executive orders are not only at the whims of changing administrations, but also rest on questionable constitutional grounds meaning that courts could also eventually discontinue

The U.S decision makers are divided about illegal immigration issue .One group decides to invest in border security, but other group suggests to use that bill to offer citizenship to millions of people before it is proven, or certified by Congress, that the porous border is truly secure so millions more will not follow them. Yet there is not a final decision about this illegal immigration issue.