Samos Arizona Case Study

S. 3827, a new version of the DREAM Act, includes numerous changes to address concerns raised about the bill. Less than a month later, on November 16, President Barack Obama and top Democrats pledged to introduce the Dream Act into the House by November 29. On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would stop deporting undocumented immigrants who match certain criteria included in the proposed DREAM Act (Cohen, Tom).  On August 15, 2012, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting applications under the Obama administration's new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Over the past few years, many families have been faced with unemployment, while struggling to find steady work. In 2011 8.7% of Arizonans were officially unemployed, but in the prior year, 9.3% of illegal aliens made up the workforce. That’s 262,587 Arizonans left without jobs and 278,460 illegal aliens with jobs.

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

DACA was created by the Obama administration in June of 2012 with the vision to relief deportation and giving protection to foreign minors who entered the country illegally so that they could stay, work and get education without being deported to their country of origin. DACA has been entitling to controversy and uncertainty since the Trump administration because this action provides the recipients the opportunity to receive a two year renewable deferral of deportation, a work permit and benefits provided by the government. This action has been rescind by the President Donald Trump on September of 2017; more than 800,000 recipients (known as DREAMers) are left with concerns, worriers and fears of being deported to their country of birth because their families, education, friends and life is here in The United States.

The passing of one of the United States’ most restrictive anti-immigration law’s in history was heavily disputed and extremely controversial nation-wide. The conversation surrounding current United States immigration regulations and issues that are aimed to be ‘addressed’ by Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 are currently at a standstill. By changing ways in which opposing parties view the ‘issues’ of illegal immigration in the United States and the effects caused by SB 1070, there is hope for the advancement of not only Arizona’s struggle with immigration, but an overall, positive nation-wide response towards all factors concerning current United States immigration.

DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was created in 2012 by the Obama administration after the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act failed. It allows children under the age of 17 that were brought into the country illegally to gain temporary protection from deportation, a Social Security card, a driver’s license, and permission to obtain a work

The bill came close to passing after debates in the Senate and the House in 2010, coming eight votes short and enduring a filibuster. The bill has been promoted by some advocates as a way to fulfill the military shortage crisis and has helped some states clarify residency status for the purpose of funding higher education and setting in-state tuition levels (Forenza and Mendonca 292). Since the act remained unpassed, a more restricted variation known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) came into effect instead, which offered limited status for alien minors who attended high school or entered higher education. However, these revisions have not led to any formal policy on educational assistance and/or residency status for alien minors.

On June 15, 2012, President Obama signed into law Deferred Action Arrivals (DACA) this new policy will allow undocumented youth who have been in the United States before January 1, 2010 to stay in the United States for a renewable two year period and avoid deportation (“Consideration of Deferred Action,”2015). Recipients who are eligible for DACA will be able to receive a work authorization, this policy does not provide a pathway to citizenship. According to an article “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA): Funding Opportunities for Philanthropy’ published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, stated six purposes of DACA are:

This writer believes that introduction of the controversial S.B. 1070 was formulated over generations of hate that has been building up from the lack of the federal government to adequately regulate immigration on the southern border of the United States. When Arizona presented the controversial S.B. 1070, this caused many Hispanics across the state to feel “elements of racial profiling, causing fear, confusion, and race-based hostility toward them and their communities” (Campbell, 2011, p 19). However, what many Hispanics do not understand is that the Arizona has been, over time, attempting to pass and also implement other variations of anti-immigration laws, which many have begun to call “e state-sanctioned ethnic-cleansing

You cannot watch the news lately without hearing something on DACA. DACA (Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals), which was an executive order signed by President Obama in hopes of encouraging congress to finally decide on immigration policies. DACA was created in 2012 by executive order by President Obama. According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center DACA, “is a prosecutorial discretion that provides a work permit and relief from removal for two years to certain eligible undocumented youth (DACA Fact Sheet). The youth that are eligible for DACA must be currently in school, have graduated or have a GED (General Education Development) certificate, have a clean adult criminal record and must be at least 15 years old but not over the

DACA, also known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, has influenced the way many immigrants live in the United States. It is a very important topic since it affects more than 700,000 people in the United States. It has become a more relevant topic in today’s news since congress wants to take DACA away, affecting thousands of people, especially the Dreamers. According to DACA Information “It started on June 17, 2007, and it allowed people to receive a renewable two year permission to stay in the country, only allowing the people under 31 and born on June 15, 1981 and after” (Lal). This program has separated many children from the parents.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy that allows certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country before their 16th birthday and before june 2007 to receive a renewable two years work permit and exemption from deportation. DACA does confer non-immigrants legal status but does not provide a pote to citizenship. The DACA program was formed through executive order by former president Barack Obama in 2012 and allows certain of people called Dreamer, who come to US illegally as minors to be protected from immediate deportion. Now Trump administration announced on tuesday the wind down of an obama era program is end.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA as most people call is an American Immigration policy that allowed individuals who entered the US as illegal minors to receive a renewable 2 year period of deferred action from deportation and would be eligible to receive a work permit. The policy was established in June of 2012 by the Obama administration. To apply for DACA, illegal immigrants must have entered the US before

After the initial DACA in 2012 there had not been any major immigration law changed or passed. DACA “a federal policy directive announced on June 15, 2012, has created new opportunities for about 1.9 million undocumented youth who came to the United States before the age of 16, have lived in the United States continuously fro at least five years, and have graduated from high school or obtained a GED” (ef4c.org, May 1, 2015). On February 16, 2015 Texas District Court Judge Andrew Hanen who put a ruling on a lawsuit supported by 26 states issued an injunction to delay the executive action set to be implemented on February, 18 2015. United We Dream is confident once the lawsuit reaches higher courts it will be turned down because it does not hold grounds. This action was much supported by the United We Dream not only because it further expanded DACA, which affects DREAMers, but it also positively impacts many parents, though not all. DREAMers were not completely satisfied by the executive action because it excluded most of their parents form DAPA (United We Dream, May 1 2015).

Prior to the creation of SB1070, Arizona has had many incidents of undocumented immigrants crossing its borders. Until the early 20th century, the U.S government took over the responsibilities of immigration control (Carroll, 2011). According to Chin and Miller (2011), harboring aliens or undocumented immigrants into the United States is considered a felony crime. Originally within the federal jurisdiction to handle such immigration offenses, the shift of responsibilities has now been shared with the state of Arizona (Chin and Miller, 2011). To prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing the borders and combat many smuggling cases of undocumented immigrants, vigilantism was motivated within the state of Arizona through the criminalization of undocumented immigrants (Frassinelli, Frenkell, & Watson, [Immigration and “Operations”: The Militarization (and Medicalization) of the US-Mexico Border] 2011).