Early Childhood Immigrants

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.

Immigrants across the nation are now targeted with the fear of deportation once more. Fifth of September 2017 marked the end of a program that allowed immigrants an opportunity to continue living the "American Dream" along with the possibility to become an American citizen. The termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the most controversial issue in the United States with both parties armed with comments of fire.

As an immigrant, we all come to America to have a better life. Some people came to America because they want to run away from the violence back in their home country such as voila, others came to America just to have better education and life. Even though they both came to America to have a better future. Voila from “The good braider” was a child who came from Sudan to America to escape the harassment and violence the solders did to her and her family, and Young Ju from “A step from heaven” was a little girl who come from Korea to America following her family for better life in America.

For the duration of the Obama presidential administration, Americans were accustomed to unity between minorities and the majority population. When the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was announced, it ushered in a time of peace and safety for the immigrants that it protected. Now, that peace has been ripped away by the Trump presidential administration. The Trump administration’s decision to end DACA was immoral and uncalled for because it enforces that the U.S. is a shortsighted nation which is against the growth of its people, and its economy.

According to the migrationpolicy.org in 2010 the reports show low-income immigrant children were significantly less likely to make a doctors appointment weather having private or public health care insurance. Of the low-income immigrant children only forty-seven percent, forty-four percent with private coverage and sixty-two percent of public overage over their native-born children that sixty-nine percent, sixty-nine percent with private coverage, and seventy-one and a half percent with public coverage (Ku and Jewers). With the raise in obesity it is very important that they are able to go to the doctors the check their health. Having programs and doctors appointments set up can help them to learn where they need help weather its in their diets or in their exercise. I think having a program at schools can provide a better opportunity for both the children and the parents to have check ups especially when families are raises the rates of obesity.

Deportation is fearful, particularly for children who have no control over the situation or what will ultimately happen to their parents. It’s critical to act humanely in this type of situation. The existing executive order of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (ACA) from Obama should be upheld with regards to defining immigrant criminals and capturing them. This order is based on the supposition that overall immigrants are good people and that if they work with the US government with their information they will re-enter society and not be deported. Should deportation occur the collaboration of municipal and county governments in rural areas is paramount, but deportation should be extremely rare and only be a last resort if necessary.

According to research cited by Karoly & Gonzalez, (2011), among immigrant children under age eighteen, 28% are in linguistically isolated families (minimal to no English speakers), 26% families with no high school diploma and 22 % below the poverty line families. This they posited causes a problem for immigrant children, in

Immigrants are having a negative effect on the US economy. If the US is taking in 145,000 children immigrants every year that mean now the US must economically subsidize them. If it costs $1,950 each child immigrant that goes to school, that is a large amount of money being spent on kids that aren't even here legally. If the US is already in debt with countries like China and Japan, spending millions of dollars on child immigrants isn't helping. Not just the children immigrants are the big costs, but the huge amount of money being spent on deportation. I think the immigrants that are already in the US shouldn't be deported back to Mexico because it not only increases the amount of money being spent on immigration problems but it distracts

Imagine that you were born in a different country, and your parents came to America illegally in order for you, their precious baby, to have a better and brighter future than they had growing up. You were raised here and grew up immersed in the language and culture. About five years ago doors swung open and revealed the bright future your mom and dad always wanted for you.

Discussions about immigration, focused on such policy issues as labor force participation and use of welfare programs, however policy makers frequently fail to include considerations for the children’s well-being. Even those debates which center on programs that benefit children, including institutions such as schools, public assistance, and social welfare program are often based on issues related to short-term costs and societal impacts, completely neglecting considerations of the well-being and future contributions of immigrant children. Immigrant children have been rendered largely invisible in policy spheres. Yet first and second generation immigrant children are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population under age 15 (Board on

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a policy, meaning it can be cut at any point. This program has caused several disagreements leaving others to pick a side to either to go against DACA or keep it. DACA allowed Latino and Latina a work permit, a deferred action status for two years and drivers licenses. But even with this program the estimation of people eligible for the program was either scared to apply or fear of deportation of them or their family members after applying for it. But Being informed that,the children who are stuck in the middle of this and are to young to understand you would think that people would think twice about but it seems like you guys are blaming the children because for what their parents did or is doing,

Language and emotion are very important to human development as it creates identity and perception of the self. In addition, language and emotion are important to socialization and a person’s perception of the world. These messages are taught differently throughout the world and are influenced by the family, community and culture therefore children adapt as a result of their learned experiences (Miller and Mangelsdorf 2005). This paper focuses on research conducted by Kusserow (1999), Fung (1999) and Orellana (2001). The researchers’ methodologies differ greatly but each touches on the approach of socializing children into each culture and subculture’s teachings on acquiring various forms of language and emotion.

Being a first-generation immigrant, my childhood was shaped by the constant struggle to fit in. Instead of learning from my parents, we grew alongside one another in awareness and understanding of what the American identity truly is. As the language barrier was a greater impediment to my parents than myself, I learned to speak for my parents, and I matured rather quickly. As a young child, I was bothered by the fact that I was different from my peers. However, it is this difference that has led me to discover three families outside my home: Benet Academy, Best Buy, and Edward Hospital. These families have accepted my differences with compassion, which in turn has positively influenced the way I think of others. Each of these families have contributed

Nowadays, in the modern world, immigration is a really common activity. People travel from one continent to another. They go from one country to another country and we see that the power of immigration makes different people from different continents, countries or cities to gather into one place and assimilate different aspects of their life in one sociology. The immigration and a childhood have similar characteristics. Like immigration, childhood is the process of continual development. In our childhood, we experience many different situations and add something new to our personal characteristics. Therefore, in her essay “Speaking in Tongues,” when Zadie Smith says, “My own childhood … [is] the synthesis of disparate things, (1)” she means that she is a synthesis of her biology and environment; in other words, she says that she is a result of a combination of everything that happened with her in the past and that is happening now around her. She is trying to tell us that she added a new type of perception to a disparate kind she already had. Consequently, I agree with Zadie Smith and I think that I am the assimilation of all the things that happened to me in my childhood.

Until I was eight-years-old, I had a relatively typical family: a mom, dad, two younger sisters, one younger brother, and two dogs. I was goal-oriented and determined even as a young girl; I had my life figured out for the next ten years. I had a strong sense of who I was, but one June day, I began the arduous process of redefining my plans and sense of self.