In 2014, former President Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) policy which would allow for unauthorized immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents to be protected for deportation. This also included being granted a working permit. The DAPA program was projected to provide working authorization for over 3.7 million immigrants. According to a report done by the MPI-Urban Institute, it found that more than 10 million people live in a household with at least one adult that is eligible for DAPA (Capps). In order to be considered for DAPA program there were certain eligibilities that parents had to meet. Besides being the parent of a resident, the person had to be living in the U.S. since 2010, be a high school graduate or a GED recipient and had never been convicted of a crime. To receive approval the process would take a while because proof would have to be submitted for each eligibility. The DAPA application also had a fee total of $465 which included the employment authorization application and a fee for fingerprints (NILC). If put in effect, the program would’ve granted a renewable three-year working permit. Even though the program was signed in 2014, it was never allowed to be implemented because of an ongoing blockage from courts. In the United States v. Texas case, 26 states filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration arguing that the program went against the constitution. This
No one wants to leave their country, but war, famine, and employment can cause people to migrate to find a peaceful place to stay. More than a million undocumented immigrants migrate to America every year searching for jobs and safe places for their families to stay, Because of this, every undocumented immigrant in America should be granted citizenship. The U.S government should allow the immigrants who are here illegally to become U.S citizens. Many of the undocumented immigrants do their best to assimilate, pay their taxes, and contribute to American traditions and culture. Their contributions to our country have done so much for the people, we should be honored to have them.
In the discussion of immigrants living in America, one controversial issue has been whether immigrants living in America have equal opportunities as American citizen do. On the one hand, some people believe that the federal government should be of more assistance to these newcomers by improving there aid programs such as Social Security and Medical. On the other hand, some say that immigrants should not have the same opportunities as others do because they come from another country and they were not born in America. Both undocumented immigrants and those with documents struggle when they come to the United States; because they have low education levels, (health concern) hardly get help from any federal programs, are affected by the fact they
Outside the sirens are singing and someone’s parents are taken away from their family because they are not a citizen, they didn’t do anything wrong they just weren’t citizens in the country. Not every immigrant is the same, everyone is different and they all have different opinions. Immigrants are helping out their family like every other family would and they aren’t just the only people who do wrong choices so do others. Some American’s can’t accept them in their country and say immigrants are taking their jobs. Imagine having children born in the country with foreign parents and they have to be deported with their kids waiting to be adopted by “parents with better lives.” Immigrants are like everyone else, they risk themselves but they don’t
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
The arguments against this policy is that Trump made a campaign promise, Obama had abused his authority, and encourages illegal immigration. For starters, the argument of terminating DACA is a campaign promise. President Trump had made in total 60 promises, however not many have been fulfilled. Even so, in keeping his promise he maintains the people’s support. As well as increases the confidence in him and supports the strength in his presidency. In regard to abuse in power, former president Obama had abused his authority and executed a policy that was illegal.Unlike Obama, President
Obama did not like what he saw when they did not pass this act. He did not want to see these kids left in the dark he did not want to see them become something other than their best selves so on June 15, 2012 President Obama creates DACA. Now we can answer the big question people have been asking is “What is DACA?” DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This allowed some people who came into the United states as minors, who came in illegally and remained in the United States received a renewed two year period of “deferred action”. They are able to work with a work permit and they are able to go to school as well. And this policy was made in 2012. The immigrants were only eligible if they came into the United States at or under the age of sixteen. Some criteria that had to be fulfilled for a person to qualify for DACA are: entering the United States with a non
Illegal immigrants should be given the right to benefits in the U.S. Illegal immigrants are willing to take all kinds of jobs that Americans don't want. According to Green Garage Blog “When it comes to doing household chores, cleaning, feeding the pets and taking care of an adult in need of care and attention, an illegal immigrant can take on these types of jobs. And knowing how busy working Americans are, it helps to get support from someone”(10 Critical Pros and Cons of Illegal immigration). Illegal immigrants can start working in the U.S doing jobs that Americans don’t want like the ones stated above. This could be the gateway to helping them get a pension, retirement plan, and a 401k. Most illegal immigrants have been in the U.S for a while
As of October 2017, DACA has been abolished by Congress and supports from the Trump Administration. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), established by the Department of Homeland Security on June 12, 2012, is a policy which helps illegal aliens that are coming into the United States get benefits that Congress did not act to provide by law. Many of these recipients are spread throughout the United States. In 2014, another policy called DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents) was expanded from the 2012 DACA policy. This policy was similar to DACA but it helped certain aliens who have children’s that have U.S. Citizenship. On June 29, 2017, Texas and several other states sent letters to the
June 2012 was a year with a huge break through on illegal immigration, and the fight to set the decision right. Opportunities to improve immigrants careers, schooling, and lives, who were born in the United States and plan on staying are on the rise. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was created to provide immigrants with an opportunity to stay in the States “legally,” but continue their lives through education if graduating from an U.S. high school, going to college, serving in the armed forces, and eventually gain citizenship in the United States. Many U.S. citizen have many thoughts and views on illegal immigrants and immigration in general, and the pros and cons to having DACA support illegal immigrants to stay in the country. There is a huge decision in process currently in 2017 that is putting DACA in risk from being a Federal Program that would end up effecting many immigrants. Threatening deportation and the possibility of losing everything that DREAMers have worked up to and for and are continuing to work towards is at a huge risk of just being thrown away. Keeping DACA and protecting the DREAMers is important because mentally and physically they are just as much of a U.S. citizen as anyone else born in the U.S.
Obama Administration has created federal programs that benefit some undocumented immigrants. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA was introduced in 2012. Similar to the DREAM Act in its requirements, DACA issues temporary legal presence to qualifying undocumented immigrants. They can apply for employment authorization as well (NILC 2015).
If you were an undocumented immigrant being pressured, hated, and discriminated against, how would you feel? Over “10 to 12 million undocumented immigrants are here in the U.S(),” and this is a major controversial topic in our society right now and for years everyone has had a different opinion on what should be done about undocumented immigrants. As for me I am for the U.S. government allowing undocumented immigrants to become U.S. citizens. Though undocumented immigrants are not supposed to be here most immigrants are law abiding, pay taxes and here to live the American dream.
“I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things. First, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them” an old Italian immigrant once said. Immigrants faced many obstacles coming to America such as finding work, finding a place to live, acclimating to their new surroundings and learning to communicate. When immigrants came to America, they expected their life to become better and have an easier life.
Undocumented Immigrants: Beneficial to the United States There are about 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today. Undocumented immigrants from different parts of the world come to this country for variety of reasons, reasons like getting a better life for themselves or their for their families, to find better jobs, or seeking a better education. Undocumented immigrants are willing to do jobs, that could sometimes be risky, that other people in the U.S. aren’t willing to do. The government should provide documents for immigrants because they benefit this country with cultural diversities, help by joining the U.S. armed forces, and growth in the U.S. economy.
On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a federal judge's decision requiring the government to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. The decision is considered a setback for the Trump administration.
Recently president Trump has cut the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. DACA is a program for immigrants who would have qualified for protection under the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM), a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate in 2001 with the intent of forming a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who had come into the US before turning the age of 16.