Port Huron Statement Thesis Statement

The undocumented students that will benefit from the Dream Act are students that are practically U.S citizens but not by birth. Some opponents to the Dream Act don’t realize how much these students have suffered throughout their life. The article, “Standing up for Immigrant Students,” mentions all of these hardships and struggles; children are exposed to many dangers when crossing the border, and once they settle in the U.S they face other hardships and struggles like learning a new language, meeting the expectations of their instructors, and being discriminated against (4-5). Despite the obstacles they encounter in their path, many manage the way to do well in school and many overpass American students and become leaders in their community. Being undocumented becomes a major issue for undocumented high school graduates who want to continue their education because it’s nearly impossible to attend a University and get federal help because a valid social security number is required. These young adults are some of the best and brightest students in this country;

DACA (sometimes called the Dreamers law) allowed people that came to the U.S. illegally as children to stay. Some people say those immigrants should be allowed to stay because they didn’t choose to come to America illegally and have only known America as their homeland. Others say their plight is sad, but the law is the law. Although the DACA program helps a few, this program should be dramatically changed because illegal immigrants can come here and not pay taxes while they get free healthcare and financial aid.

Many proponents of the DREAM Act argue that “these kids were brought to the United States before they had a say in their life circumstances. Denying them hope and opportunity is punishment for an act beyond their control” (Fitz). Supporters of the DREAM Act continually advertise this argument; They claim that the children are innocent, and the United States is treating these children unjustly, but not rewarding them with “legal residence and expensive college tuition subsidies is simply withholding benefits to which they never had any entitlement in the first place” (Mehlman). These children are innocent, and deserve to be given an opportunity to come to the United States and have a good education, but it should not be through the DREAM Act or illegal immigration. It is not un-American to prioritize United States citizens, and other immigrants waiting to enter the country legally. A gross misconception is that DACA is only opposed by a radical few who want to hurt innocent children and families, but “a recent Quinnipiac University poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum favor tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws over rolling out the amnesty welcome wagon.” (Malkin). Despite this poll, many patrons of the DREAM Act think that continued amnesty is a right the United States is taking away, when in truth, the general public supports tougher immigration law. The DREAM literally goes against popular opinion, as it sponsors amnesty, and not harsher immigration

The Port Huron Statement was written by Tom Hayden, a social activist, in 1962. He was part of a group calling itself, Students for a Democratic Society”.

We  believe that all young teenagers who aren't citizens should have the right to have a Daca if they're trying to make something out of themselves. Although, we know what Obama did was illegal, by passing Daca without Congress agreeing with him, we think Congress should've put more thought into it and legalize the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) .With Daca many students are becoming someone important in life. They are taking the opportunity for what they are being

What do the authors of the Port Huron Statement appear to mean by participatory democracy?

Annually, there are close to 65,000 undocumented immigrants who graduate high school or earn a GED in order to then apply for college, only to be declined due to their lack of citizenship. Not only are they constantly turned away, if they are accepted, they are granted no financial aid and are forced to pay out-of-state tuition despite how long they may or may not have lived in that state (Bennion). Regardless of their residential status, Dreamers are capable of being honor students, athletes, valedictorians, all of the above, and everything a permanent citizen is able to assume the role of. They are just as intelligent, and if we provide to them the same resource as those who are legal are given, they could truly become a role model to many alike. On top of everything, it is already challenging for a Dreamer to get a job thanks to their status as a citizen, without a higher education they may have an insufficient chance of working a career or in a position of select field. Under the DREAM Act, these children could work a job with a salary enough to take care of them and their families if need be. Furthermore, if these people are allowed access to an increased amount of jobs, it would lead to economic growth in our

From its modest size and placement on the eastern size of the Georgian Bay it is not surprising that it took quite a long time for the lake to find itself definitively on any map. The natives would have known of it from the earliest of human times and by no later than the early 1800s the Ojibwe bands had used it during the summers. Being just west of the native north-south path (old Hwy 69 essentially follows it) suggests the Wyandot (Huron) much earlier and before their demise in the mid-1600s used Blackstone and the surround lakes for their summer hunting, fishing and gathering. Indeed the three large Muskoka lakes were referred to as Little Hurons. However, the Ojibwe and Wyandot did not keep maps — for their chiefs and scouts had good forest memory. A bare outlining of the region surrounding Blackstone started with the first two coureur de bois, Jean Nicolet and Étienne Brûlé and the first European explorer Samuel de Champlain from 1611-1615.

After hearing the news, I felt as if my worries were crawling right back up to my shoulders. As if I was at the top of the mountain and then had someone push back down. Finding out that the Senate has plans to take down the DACA was as if they were closing the doors to my success. As the Congress debates over immigration reform, August the 15th marks the second anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On the 15th of August 2012, President Obama began a policy calling for deferred action towards certain young individuals who came to the United States as children and are known as Dreamers(LOGOS). This policy allows this group of people to have similar rights that are initially reserved for the citizens of the United States, like applying for employment or having a social security. The Daca program also secures the young dreamers from deportation.

Throughout all the chaos the Weathermen caused, they went through a series of events. Its initial politics were barley radical. The first report of assumption, the Port Huron Statement, built criticism of the economic and national injustice in the United States. The generalisation that separated the SDS was its struggle to move beyond the bounds of simple issued politics, to a more profound analysis of American society. The SDS was accepted in the fall of nineteen sixty-four, a colossal development broke out at the University of California. Led by a association of groups, along with SDS, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement empowered thousands of students, in a clash against a university ban on political organising on campus,

The Obama administration in 2012 decided to launch the Deferred Act for young children arrival, which gave them temporary access of independence. The Migration Policy Institute states, “in 2014, it announced a new deferred action program for parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents” (n.d., para.1). The socioeconomic factors that lead to this legislation has a strong impact on this Act. There are exactly 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States waiting to become authorized so that they can start a bright future walking the path of success and continuing their own milestones. Gilma Celis believes that “the social and economic benefits of the implementation of the Dream Act would be beneficial to society” (2012, para.1). Many citizens who are from the United State do not understand that this Act is here to help illegals. It offers citizenship to the illegal immigrants who strive for a better life. “Immigrants up to age 35 who arrived in the United States before age 16 provided they complete two years of college” (Camarota, 2010, para. 1). Those that are given these benefits will receive in state tuition. Steven Camarota explains, “given the low income of illegal immigrants, most can be expected to attend state schools, with a cost to taxpayers in the billions of dollars” (2010, para.1). What led to this legislation is the simple fact that illegal immigrants are dreamers who believe

It's about America's development from World War II, which eventually becomes the inspiration of these democratic ideals, and our country's ultimate failure to be faithful in fulfilling them. The Port Huron Statement points out the hypocrisy that existed within the borders of the “wealthiest and strongest country in the world,” and proposes changes that the creators of the Port Huron Statement deemed necessary. With regards to the Port Huron Statement, the authors had one thing in mind: to reconstruct America so that it may live up to the ideals it stood

There are many people that have crossed the border into the united states knowing that they break immigration laws. Their motives are serious enough that they flee from their home countries because they fear for their lives. When they come to the US they don't want to harm anybody but get far in life like anybody in the US. There are people who have children and come to the US so that their children can surpass their own education and succeed in life. Many of these people chase the “American Dream”. The same dream the persecuted pilgrims fled Great Britain. When those pilgrims came to north america they had been granted that freedom. When Great Britain wanted to enforce regulations that took those freedoms away a war was fought and the birth of a nation succeeded. Great things can happen when people fight for freedom. Many people are fighting for DACA. However it is not fought with the Barrel of a gun or weapons of mass destruction. The freedom of choosing any career in life and not having to look else where just because of missing nine digit number that declares you born citizen. The battle is being fought with words. Words spoken from the hearts of many students parents teachers and

What are your demands of the university administration and why are they important? How will they help DACA recipients? If possible, this portion will include interviews with DACA recipients if they are willing to speak publicly. They will speak on their experiences, hopes and fears as DACA recipients. The film will close with the plans of these organizations and students moving forward; what consequences they fear and what can be done by the average person to help those affected by this policy change. The spine of this story is the DACA students and their allies’ quest for help from the University of Michigan administration and their desparate rally against the potential deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The central tension lies here, between the administration, which has only voiced its support of DACA recipients but has done nothing, and the portion of the faculty and student body rallying to support their peers, loved-ones, and thousands of others aided by DACA. This film also will employ the Performative Documentary Mode as it will address the audience emotionally and expressively, using interviews to attempt to draw the viewer into alignment with the film’s subjective ideology, which is that DACA defendants are doing important work on campus with real concrete effects on fellow students and faculty, who are threatened by the repeal of DACA and that ending DACA is a dangerous political move for all

Alexis De Tocqueville's seminal text Democracy in America serves as a prime template of rigidly and explicitly examining the dawn of democratic intellectualism and policies of the United States in the early 19th century. What I will argue is that throughout his text, he is most interested in how the themes of freedom or liberty, and equality have evolved and been implemented in American society from political spheres to more common place social spheres on the level of the general population. Alexis De Tocqueville's main argument is how the United States have perhaps best applied a democratic society while avoiding aristocratic or monarchical frameworks, such as many European nations. De Tocqueville's examination and analysis of American society suggests that he is an advocate of how equality and freedom are handled, but also occasionally warns against possible flaws in the system that could revert into a more unbalanced society, economically and socially speaking. Despite these setbacks, De Tocqueville's optimism over equality and liberty in America prevail.