President Obama's Immigration Policy On Illegal Immigrants And DACA

The return and removal of illegal immigrants from the United States is one of the most widely discussed topics. Since 2007the United States Customs and Border Protection (ICE) has returned or removed over 1.2 million illegal immigrants from the United States. ICE has expanded its Criminal Alien Program to included incarcerated criminal illegal aliens.  In 2007, ICE identified 164,296 convicted criminals who were incarcerated in Federal, state and local penitentiaries (These are people who came into the United States illegally and committed a crime.)

The immigration reform, an important issue for the U.S. government has accelerated significantly in the past few years. It has been debated between the democratic and republican senators to reform a framework for the immigration. President Obama gave a speech to push for an immigration reform in favor of undocumented 11 million immigrants in the USA, as well as a road map for their legal citizenship. It has also been suggested that a sub citizenship could be an option instead of providing full citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.

The United States has long wrestled with questions over immigration policy, with heavy partisan rancor characterizing the nature of illegal immigration as a political issue. As a humanitarian, economical and sociological issue, illegal immigration is not only a pressing issue but one that can invoke highly charged and emotional reaction from both sides. This was amply demonstrated this past week when President Obama announced that the Department of Homeland Security would be granting 'deferred action' status to a category of illegal immigrants falling into a qualifying set of demographic conditions. According to Julia Preston & John H. Cushman Jr.'s 2012 New York Times article entitled "Obama to Permit Young Migrants to Remain in U.S," the President used his executive authority to limit the number of deportations committed upon illegal immigrants by easing the status of the youngest of these.

Throughout history more often than not, many men have committed controversial acts affecting the United States greatly while holding the mantle of President. Every job has its perks and being the commander and chief of the free world comes with one known as Executive powers. With Obama using this to introduce his new Immigration policy plan he has stirred up far more conflict than any of his predecessors ever did. Well, except for Nixon of course but that’s a different story.

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

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

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.

Everyday on the news you hear a new topic that refers to something President Trump wants to do, has done, or is doing at the moment. Half of the country seems to either be with or against him on choices he makes or the way he addresses things. One topic that is being discussed and talked about greatly is DACA. DACA was a policy made by Barack Obama back in 2012 to provide temporary protection to illegal immigrants, primarily focused on children. DACA means “deferred action for childhood arrivals” and it provides the option for a renewable 2 year period of deferred action of deportation. This gives eligibility for a work permit in the states. The united states president, Donald Trump, wants to terminate this policy.

He also said that he was going to use his power of executive orders to reform immigration. If Congress does not make the laws then there are no laws to execute. This executive order may help more than five million “undocumented” immigrates residing in the United States along with countless, “Dreamers” (immigrates brought to the U.S. as children). Mr. Obama believes that the system cannot get much worse and see his executive order as a way to reform. The President reminded the other two branches of the government that Congress is to pass laws while the judiciary has to translate those laws using the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Obama does not intent to change laws concerning immigration but he does plan to use those laws to support undocumented persons and children. The President said, “We didn’t raise the Statue of Liberty with her back to the world; we did it with her light shining as a beacon to the world.” He put Congress and the Courts on notice that he would use his power for reform. The United States supported an immigration bill that mapped out a way for millions of illegal’s a way to become citizens. Most of the

By providing protection to deportation of mostly harmless immigrants that want to live in the U.S. in order to benefit themselves and their families, it will undoubtedly protect undesirable immigrants. For example, what if one of the immigrants that is protected from deportation commits a violent act? The fact of the matter is, that even though Obama's executive actions are mostly beneficial, if enough undesirable immigrants are protected and commit crimes then it would be more harmful than beneficial. Furthermore, if Obama's executive actions protect too many immigrants from deportation, then that could potentially swell the amount of unskilled and uneducated workers in the district, leading to increased crime. Therefore, Obama's executive actions on immigration could cause more harm to the district than benefit if it is not implemented

In regards to the DACA and DAPA programs, President Obama spoke about the U.S being a “nation of immigrants”, referencing the country’s long history of immigration. In her book, Small Strangers, historian Melissa R. Klapper maintains that U.S. history is a story of foreign-born youth and children of immigrants. She says: “As both real people and symbols, turn-of-the-century immigrant children played a vital role [in the] unprecedented productivity and economic growth of their country.” Immigrant youth have been uniquely affected by immigration policies in the U.S. An overview of our country highlights the neglected presence of young immigrants in some of the most significant eras of immigration.

The deferred action that the president is attempting to make is allowing undocumented aliens whose children are American citizens or lawful permanent residents, some form of legal status in the United States if only for a short time. The United States has more than four million illegal aliens residing in the country. Attempts to deport all four million would cost the U.S. billions of dollars and would separate millions of families that have resided in the U.S. for decades. The policy, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) aims to grant hard working people who have already been intergraded members of society status to allow them to work in the U.S. legally. These aliens have already been in our country for decades and have been contributing to our economy. If we were to give them a legal status and register them then they would contribute even more towards our economy by paying taxes; also being registered would allow more of awareness of how many illegal aliens there are in the U.S. The program would save millions of families from being torn apart and would also only allow the illegal aliens some form of legal status; meaning that the immigrates would have legal status to work and have the same rights as an American citizen when it comes to the law and abiding by the law. The illegal aliens must also receive a background check before being permitted legal status. However this program would not give them citizenship towards elections since they wouldn’t technically have American

Under the Obama administration several undocumented immigrants had been detained and ordered to be deported, however they continued to live in the United States, for varying reasons. These reasons range from persons who are not informed of their deportation status due to fact that they missed their hearings, or documents were sent to previous addresses and were not received, or they belonged to countries that do not accept US deportees. Under Obama's adminstration several undocumented  immigrants were also delayed deportation based on humanitarian reason or because they were not considered to be a risk or threat. Obama's guidelines  was based on deporting immigrants with serious criminal records  or immigrants who were considered a risk or

My policy problem is that Congress now wants to reverse President Obama’s executive order and this reversal will be a huge step back in the process of the immigration reform that is needed. This reversal of action can be detrimental to many immigrant families by separating families with deportation and delaying families from being reunited after only parts of families were able to come to the United States. The government has been deporting illegal immigrants and the path to citizenship is difficult for illegal immigrants because of the complications and financial burden of the whole process.

According to Asumah, the lack of implementation of new immigration policies and the deferment of President Obama’s immigration reform “has given incentives to especially anti-immigrant border states within the Union to generate their own policies which are generally xenophobic in nature” (29). Therefore, a compromise must be implemented through laws and policies that will guarantee the enforcement of immigration laws in the U.S.-Mexico border through the increase of border-patrol groups and agreements with the Mexican government. With an increased control of the border, the number of new unauthorized immigrants entering the country will be reduced dramatically. Moreover, an effort of governors, senators and the president himself is needed in