The Pros And Cons Of The Dreamers

Although, it is a temporary measure with no direction to citizenship. This announcement brought a major victory for the immigrant youth movement, which has worked for decades to achieve some sort of legal status for its undocumented members. In particular, this movement has struggle for transition of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act. While it has yet to become law, the DREAM Act has played an unparalleled role in U.S. political discourse since it was first proposed in 2001. Above all, it has assemble a new youth movement that asserts its members' rights the new terms articulating in society are "undocumented youth" and "DREAMERS" which are widely used on college campuses, workplace, in mainstream newspapers, publications, and including by politicians and celebrities. Many of these immigrant youth movement have taken their stigmatized undocumented status into a powerful identity. As a result, "DREAMERS,” undocumented immigrants in their teens, twenties and thirties who have reveal their undocumented status in support of the DREAM Act and have become a recognizable and compelling force in United States; despite having no formal political

The term DREAMers is derived from a legislative bill which was first introduced in 2001, called the

are ideals used to define the American Dream. The American Dream promises immigrants and citizens a chance to pursue a better life, which is portrayed throughout the novel Behold the Dreamers . Behold the Dreamers , by Imbolo Mbue, follows the lives of Jende and Neni Jonga, an immigrant couple from Cameroon, who live in Harlem in hopes of providing a better life for their family. Throughout the Jonga’s journey, Imbolo Mbue proves that the essentials of hard work, education, and strong families are not enough for achieving the American Dream. Jende and Neni came to America in hopes of a brighter future for their family, but come to face with reality and are forced to make an impossible choice.

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These Dreamers did not choose to be brought to the United States, but now that they are here, they must find a way to move forward in life. Jesus Contreras is a paramedic who lives in Houston, Texas. He was brought here as a kid from Mexico, and is part of the DACA program. He provided assistance in the relief after Hurricane Harvey in August of 2017. In an interview with BBC, Contreras says “I’ve never considered going back to Mexico. Everything I have, everything I’ve planted, my faith my religion, my friends are all here in the United States.” Dreamers like Contreras do not have lives in Mexico. They grew up here in the U.S. and have taken part and contributed to society here. Life in Mexico is very difficult at the time, which is why many flee to the United States. There is a lot of violence and crime making it not the best place to have a family. As of November 2017, Mexico has had a nationwide total of 20,878 murders within the year, that is an average of 69 murders per day (Torres). Mexico has become a very dangerous place, which is why many of the Dreamers were brought to the U.S. If the Dreamers are sent to Mexico, they will be in a place they not only do not know, but will also be in greater danger than if they were in the U.S. A lot of what our society is built on is education and schooling. It is fundamental in our development as people and as a nation. Through DACA, these Dreamers are able to attend schooling and learn how to give back to society. In 2010,

About 400,000 illegal immigrants come to the United States each year, each one with their own story and reasons. These illegal immigrants often have sorrowful stories that make you want to sympathize with them, but these immigrants never think about how their presence affects the United States. On September 5th, “President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the DACA program; they contended that undocumented immigrants took economic opportunities away from citizens and lawful permanent residents” (DREAM). The DACA program was created in 2012 by President Obama and allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. Recently, President Trump ended the program, but gave Congress a window to formulate a better plan

The unjustified decision to end DACA has sparked numerous protests around the nation. The administration’s decision is unjustified because many of the people protected under this act are hardworking tax payers who obey laws just like any citizen of this nation. In general, Dreamers are motivated youthful individuals who have studied to better themselves and now pay taxes to this nation they call “home”. Some of which, only know English and

During the presidential debates, Donald Trump was quoted saying, “One of the first things he would do to improve the border is get drug dealers and "bad hombres" out of the U.S. (CNN).” In this quote President Trump is stating that the people coming over the border are bad. A common belief is that the dreamers are bad and they are not contributing to American economy in a positive way. In actuality, the dreamers are quite the opposite of “bad hombres”, they are the Berkeley graduate who came to San Francisco at 9 years old and is now in medical school (Napolitano). As stated before we have already invested in the Dreamers’ education why throw away such a great investment, based on the false opinion of the Dreamers’ being “bad hombres”. Dreamers’ are stated to be a danger to the American society and are often thought to be bad or criminals. Statistics prove that is not the case at all. According to American Community Survey data, the incarceration rate for Dreamers’ who have graduated high school is 1.22% which is quite a lot less than the rate for a native which is 2.22%

Not only do adolescents face challenges in the city of Woodburn, but so do parents and any immigrant individual. In chapter twenty of Behold the Dreamers Jende and Neni get in argument because Liomi heard his mom on the phone saying that they were returning to Cameroon, the country they escaped from for a better opportunity. Jende gets very upset with Neni as he says the following “is that what you think? You think we should tell a child his father might be deported? You want Liomi to know what’s happening to me?” (Mbue, 2016, p. 128). Jende’s and Neni’s fear of immigration is definitely a fear many immigrant families have always had in the city of Woodburn for many years. these families are scared to be separated and to come to an end in their “American Dream”. Neni and Jende fear for their son because they want him to get a good education and to grow up in a country with opportunities. Their dream is for Liomi to not grow up in a poor city like they did. Their dream is also to become someone in life and to own their own house, which is something many families in the city of Woodburn are also eager for.

As native-born Americans, we are given the opportunity to go to school and choose what to do with our lives, in other words, we are able to follow our dreams. However, our nation needs to accept the fact that not all people who have dreams are just the people here in America, the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is a policy for young male and female immigrants (who are also known as “dreamers”) that came to the United States illegally as children but have the ability to come out of the shadows from all the time they’ve been kept hidden from the eyes of anti-immigration conservatives. Dreamers are able to enroll in public school, receive a work permit, join the military, and get a driver’s license, and state identification card. Undocumented immigrants in the DACA organization are given an extension to their stay here in the United States for two years and then they would have to renew another suspension against the U.S. deportation system.

Eric Hoffer once said, “It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as Native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was an American immigration policy passed by President Barrack Obama administration on June 15th, 2012 that permitted minors, also known as Dreamers, to enter the nation with no legal status. President Donald Trump has rescinded the DACA policy, that protected 800,000 immigrants, as of September 5th, 2017. The reversal of this policy will only serve to separate families, deny children much needed medical care, and limit their educational opportunities.

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.

“What makes someone American isn’t just blood or birth but allegiance to our founding principles and faith and the idea that anyone from anywhere can write the next chapter of our story,” stated President Barack Obama. In 2012, the Obama administration established the program that allowed young children to work and study, who were brought in the country illegally by their parents. They are known as DREAMers. As of 2017, with the new President, Donald Trump he was questioning this program and whether it should continue. So, should these children be allowed to stay in the US although they arrived illegally? This question splits society today and many ask if this program helps to US to prosper.

Deferred action for childhood arrivals, commonly referred to as DACA, is an American government program that was introduced by previous president Barack Obama in 2012. The program gave young adults and minors who were illegally brought to the US at an early age, otherwise referred to as the “Dreamers”, the right to receive education, be employed, and live as American citizens (Walters, 2017). On September 5th, 2017, Donald Trump and his administration announced that the DACA program will come to an end and new applications will no longer be accepted, leaving about 800,000 young adults who were fostered under the program, confused and upset. Trump later states that if Congress cannot find a solution to the problem, then he will reconsider the

As an Immigrant, here in the United States, I know what it takes for aliens to bring their loved ones here for them to have a better lifestyle and future. In the majority of Latin American, the opportunities for jobs and going to school are very thin, unless your parents can afford to send you to college. One of the primary reasons why people tend to flee their country is violence, where I’m from Honduras, the crime rate is so high that watching the news just makes you want to have all of your family here because is way safer here than over there. In 2012 former President Barack Obama created a deferred action for undocumented young people who came to the United States as children known as “Dreamers.” With this policy, they were going to be able to attend school, get a social security number, an ID, they have to pay taxes also and they aren’t allowed Medicaid except for an emergency. DACA students aren’t allowed to get loans or scholarships unless they’re applying for private ones. Just about two months ago President Trump, terminated DACA giving the recipients only a six-month period of hope, and which has to go through Congress to be approved and the Trump administration stopped considering new applications for a legal status here in the