The Challenges For Unauthorized Immigrants

The U.S has a prolonged history of discrimination. In the late 17th century, when America declared as a free country, only the white gentility had the privileged of “freedom” and African American continue their life as slaves for many decades. As the country grows, it became a dream land, a refuge for immigrations fled from their country to seek freedom and pursuit happiness. However, the gene of discriminations stuck deeply in the mind of the early founding fathers; hence their descendents also obtained the hatred toward immigrations who look differently. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, many immigrants such as the Jews, Chinese and Japanese immigrations came to America with the hope for

Globally, the United States has been known as "a nation of immigrants" almost from its inception. Beginning in the 1600s with English Puritans and continuing today, America is a melting pot of culture and ethnicity. In fact, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigration was the major source of U.S. population growth. Looking over our 200+ years we find that to clearly be true, with approximately 1 million immigrants coming to America during the 17th and 18th century. Almost 3 million arrived during the 1860s, and another 3 million in the 1870s. In the next four decades, the number of immigrants rose to over 25 million people, most from various European nations, most arriving in New York or one of the Eastern seaports (Damon, 1981). Despite the politicization, as of 2006, the United States actually was the number one country globally to accept legal immigrants into the country, with a current immigrant population of almost 40 million (Terrazas and Batalova, 2009). In fact, the peak of immigration was 1907, when over 1.2 million Europeans entered the country beginning a push towards legislation limiting immigration in the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924 and the 1921 Congressional Quota Act. These immigrants came for two sociological reasons: the push factor (wars, famine, persecution and overpopulation) and the pull factors (jobs and the promise of freedom). Most came by ship, and a passage often cost the equivalent of an entire life's savings causing many

With evidence from different sources, this paper will show the how the DACA program effects the United States as a whole. “In 2010, in the whole u.s. Population, households with college education heads, on average, received $24,839

With the credentials that they obtain from university, the recipients of the program are worlds ahead of where they would have been without DACA. In the same study by the Center for American Progress, it was determined that DACA moved 50,000 to 75,000 unauthorized immigrants into employment and thus improved their income. The respondents of the survey reported that sixty-nine percent of them had moved to a job with better pay, and fifty-four percent of them had gone to a job better fit for their education. Overall, with DACA, ninety-one percent of the respondents in the survey that had received DACA were in a position of employment (Giovanni 1). Due to the fact that the income of the DACA recipients was increased because of employment opportunities, the Dreamers are able to purchase homes. The employment opportunities provided for Dreamers through DACA are able to benefit them in a way that allows for national

In June 2012 the Obama administration announced the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program grants deferred action (protection from deportation) and work authorization to certain young unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children, have pursued an education, and have not committed serious crimes or pose no national security threat (Hipsman, Faye, and Doris Meissner, 2014). Individuals who are granted DACA status are considered as being "lawful presence," regardless of their citizenship which makes individuals eligible for driver's licenses and other state-determined benefits where states choose to grant them (Adams, Angela, and Kerry S. Boyne, 2015). The individuals who apply to DACA have to go through intense background checks, which includes fingerprint analysis, to make sure the individuals are safe for society. For all purpose DACA students are one step closer to legal status and have been deemed to be helpful to society. Many opponents of in-state tuition for undocumented students claimed that because the students could not legally work the state would lose money, however DACA has changed things forever. Now the DACAmented students can get jobs and pursue the careers they studied for in college (Adams, Angela, and Kerry S. Boyne, 2015). According to Migration Policy Institute, it is estimated that 1.7 million individuals are eligible for the DACA program. As of March 2013, the program's rolling application process has seen 469,530 requests and USCIS has approved 245,493 cases (Hipsman, Faye, and Doris Meissner, 2014). These immigrants pay taxes (i.e, sales taxes) and now they are working legally, which means more revenue for the state in both wage and sales taxes. The third policy alternative would ease the worries of anti-Texas Dream Act in the respect that the students

Through the years the DACA legislation has come a long way of providing a great advantage for undocumented students. Through the legislation we have been able to have a stable job and a sense of security. DACA does not only offer an opportunity to financially help the families of those students, who most likely are undocumented as well, but it also offers a deferred action from deportation which allows students to, for at least two years, live without the fear of being taken away from the US. This legislation has helped many students across the United States and many different ways the economy DACA provides a 42 percent wage raise for the recipients which can be connected to higher tax revenue and financial growth (Wong, Rosas, Reyna, Rodriguez,,

It allowed unauthorized immigrants who entered the United States at a young age to apply for work permits. On a national survey fielded by Tom K. Wong from the University of California and the National Immigration Law Center shows that “ 91% of the respondents are currently employed” (Wong/NILC/CAP) . But after receiving DACA, 69% of the respondents that are DACA recipients are moving to a job with a better pay, 54% moved to a job that fits their education and training, 54% moved to a job that fits their long-term career goal. 56% moved to a job with better working conditions, and only 5% have started their own business. In general, the rate among the American population as a whole to start a business would be 3.1%, meaning the DACA recipients are improving the general the population in terms of business creation.

Approving DACA would allow about 700,000 children and young adults to earn permanent residency (Fitz). DACA is known as a program that would provide certain key benefits of legal immigration status and a path for young immigrants to eventually attain citizenship ("DREAM Act”). According to Mahwish Khan, those who support DACA believe that the Dream Act would dramatically increase the pool of highly qualified recruits for the U.S. Armed Forces and think that deporting Dreamers is inhumane and cruel. Furthermore, advocates of DACA strongly feel that the Dream Act would be good for the U.S. economy. On the other hand, according to the article “Are DACA and the DREAM Act 2”, those who oppose DACA are convinced that amnesty should not be given

On Tuesday fifth, 2017 the President, Donald Trump ordered to put an end to the obama-era the protects young immigrant from deportation, with a six month delay. This six month delay is supposed to urge Congress to come up with a plan as a replacement to DACA. What is DACA? DACA is a program that was formed through executive order by former President Barack Obama in 2012 and allows certain young immigrant, called Dreamers, who come to the U.S. illegally as minors to be protected from deportation. which is subject to renewal. Beneficiary from DACA obtain work permits for 2 years and they are subject to renewal every 2 years. How many young immigrants benefit from DACA? 800,000 undocumented youth are under this protection. That's a large

The article “How the Supreme Court’s immigration decision hurts all of us” (2016) Roberto G. Gonzales. Roberto G. Gonzales is an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of “lives in limbo:Undocumented and coming of age in america”. Gonzales sounds sad and disappointed through his article. Gonzales claims that the Obama administration had created a new and life changing program to help young undocumented immigrants. The program was named DACA which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program gives young immigrants deportation relief and other benefits such as a work permit a driver's license and some even open bank accounts and build their credit, which can benefit the economy. Gonzales explains

In the article, For DACA Recipients, Losing Protection and Work Permits Is Just The Start, by Caitlyn Dickerson, it targets and examines the outcome of what will happen to those who are under the DACA program and how their lives will change in just a blink of an eye. To all of these immigrants who fled their countries and took their loved ones with them in hopes of trying to what are their countries and took their loved ones with them in hopes of trying to create a better life for themselves, DACA was seen as one of many opportunities that would be presented it to them. One of the privileges of being under the DACA program would be that these people would get to live their dreams of living in the United States and being able to work and provide

The conflict of undocumented immigrants who worry that reporting a crime or interacting with the law enforcement could result in their deportation is man-made. Man-made means the conflict is made or came from humans. The reason why it is man-made is because law enforcement authorities want to maintain the community and its citizens secure but also wants to keep the foreigners out of the country. This is important because

“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind to whatever nation they might belong” this quote is by George Washington, but A Country is for all is another quote by Jorge Ramos. Everyone of any culture should be aloud in every country they want. There shouldn't be a law that doesn't let people out of a country to find a great new start for them. In this essay we will be talking about immigrants in the late days, border crossing, and families being separated.

Many people including ourselves were not fully aware of the D.A.C.A program and its benefits. This project allowed us to look into and learn what the D.A.C.A program is all about; therefore, allowing us to form our own views on the program. We learned that many young immigrants are benefiting from this program by being given the opportunity to get a higher education while being able to feel more at home in the only home some of them know. Many of us grew up with some of these people in our communities and in our middle schools and high schools we call these people our friends which allows us to also feel happy when we see our friends able to better them self and join use in college and mile stone. Many benefits come with DACA, such as boosting the economy, and introducing more people in to the work place.

As I read the title, I assumed I would be reading about the hardships and the challenges that immigrants face. The challenges they face while needing some type of medical service whether it is occupational therapy or a doctor check-up. Many immigrants fear or simply do not have the communication to seek the help they need and it is difficult for them to overcome these challenges.