Essay On Social Conflict Theory

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

Over 90 percent of working age recipients are paying taxes, while they are paying the taxes they don’t get the same government benefits that US citizens get. “Deportation of Dreamers will mean reduced productivity and reduced tax revenue at the federal, state and local levels. According to a 2017 study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Dreamers pay as much as $2 billion annually in taxes.” With the loss of revenue of $2 billion in taxes there is also going to be the cost of deporting the DREAMers would be even greater. According to ICE, The average cost to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from arrest to removal of an undocumented individual is $12,500. Deporting the approximately 800,000 Dreamers would cost the government nearly $10

According to the article written about the failures of the Dream Act, an incident occurred on November 6, a young man named Juan Manuel Montes was imprisoned by Border Patrol for being an undocumented immigrant in the United States. “He was the first recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to have been deported by the Trump administration” (Failure to Pass the Dream Act Would Be a Moral Crisis, 2017). Many reporters say that Mr. Montes’s detention and deportation was only a sign of what could happen in the future. It has been around over two months since President Trump declared the end to the Dream Act. While President Barack Obama was in office, he protected Dreamers because he understood and empathized with their struggles.

The movie I chose to do my movie analysis on was Sin Nombre. I chose this movie because it stood out to me the most, mainly because of the title in Spanish. I used four concepts while analyzing this epic movie. First I applied the power elite theory to see who had the power in this power city and how they used their power. Then I used the social conflict theory to see what caused the people to get into the gangs and how the gangs acted to the people. The socialization theory is shown in the sense that the gang makes people believe that they are a part of a family when they join. The last concept I used was deviance because of all the violence that happened in the movie.

When we were kids, we were told to dream big so we can be whatever we want to be. However, President Donald Trump wants to remove an action that protects kids who immigrated to the U.S. of a young age (dreamers). This decision has affected many kids and young adults who work and go to school. DACA has helped many dreamers go to school, college, work, and most importantly has provided protection from deportation. Although these kids don’t have immigration papers, they are still considered dreamers and have the same desires as natural born Americans. Many of these kids are upset because they know they won’t be able to learn and have a career in their own country; it’s impossible.

So why is it necessary to keep these “dreamers” from living their dream? During Trump’s presidential campaign, he promised to reverse Obama’s “unconstitutional executive actions.” Republicans did not forget this promise and felt it necessary to take actions into their own hands. So they [Republicans] threatened to sue the federal government over DACA if the President didn’t cancel it by September 5th. Thus, leaving us where we are today: Trump putting an end to DACA and giving Congress 6 months to pass new laws in place of

As said in the article A Dream Deferred “It allows me to blend into society every way” (A Dream 13). As a citizen I would not understand the struggle that the DACA students go through , but i still believe that they should should keep it because sending a student , family member , or employees to a country that they don't even remember or want to go back to just seems like a nightmare to go through. Also tearing a family apart because of getting rid of a program just seem inhuman to me. I believe if these students or members of this program are paying their taxes, going to school, and following the rules they should be able to stay in the US. Now that Trump is trying to get rid of DACA there are a lot more challenges to getting into the US. Right now Trump is only allowing The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to the DACA because of the fact that they got hit by the hurricanes. But those aren't the places that they most students come from , the most students come from Mexico , Honduras , and Guatemala. Mexico is actually the biggest by far applicants. In the article A Dream Deferred it says “In the five years since they were

This program allows children brought to America illegally to obtain driver’s license, enroll in college, find legal jobs, pay income taxes, and also serve in the military without the fear of being deported to their country. More than thousands of people could lose their jobs if DACA is taken away forever. It could also cause more than 800,000 dreamers to be uncertain about their future and the possibility of being deported. Following is a Juan Escalante’s story of how and why his family he decided to come to America with his family. “I remember the day I found out I was undocumented. I got a call from an admissions office from a university I had applied to. They wanted to see a green card. I was extremely embarrassed. My mother just started crying. She just started apologizing and told me that it was her fault and that she wanted a better future of us.”. When Juan Escalante was 11 years old, his family and him came to the United States from Venezuela, where life had become dangerous. “We were driving and we stopped at a red light. A man approaches our car and he told my

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% (Michelangelo). As proven true by the

Within the past year, the Department of Justice under President Trump has ended Obama Era orders. One in particular is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA is an immigration policy that allowed for people who entered the country illegally as minors to stay within the U.S, work, and receive a two-year deferred action period from deportation. Trump revoked this order causing Homeland Security to stop processing applications. Since DACA has been revoked, federal courts across the country have begun proceedings to block parts of it. Although many are upset, congress has yet to rule upon the law and some effects have taken place. According to the Huffington Post, “since the September announcement, an estimated 11,000 young people have lost their deportation protections.” The effects that have already begun are concerns to the public because many people will begin to lose their ability to function within the American society.

The majority of the people who benefit from DACA were brought to the United States at a very young age, some not even being old enough to make decisions for themselves. Through the removal of DACA, the lives of those who came innocently are impacted and damaged. They did not make the conscious decision to come here, and should not be reprimanded for wanting to remain and continue their life in the country they consider home. According to data gathered by the New York Times, almost 800,000 people are protected by DACA, “…with 79 percent coming from Mexico”(Parlapiano & Yourish 3) and “less than 30 percent of eligible applicants applied from the Philippines, India and South Korea”(3)—those are 800,000 young people who are at risk of loosing their status. In an interview by Michel Martin, done through NPR, Dan Lee, a

The sixteen-year history of the DREAM Act has been futile — despite various sponsors and versions and dozens of votes, the bill has failed again and again. In June 2012, President Barack Obama issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, or DACA (Alcindor and Gay Stolberg), with the hope that eventually Congress would pass the DREAM Act. The executive action would “lift the shadow of deportation from these young people”, a generation of people known as DREAMers who were brought to the United States illegally as children, and grant work-authorization papers (Friedersdorf). Note that this action does not grant legal status. On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration rescinded the order leaving the more than 800,000 DREAMers unprotected, unable to attend higher education and unable to work legally. With six months until the rescission is fully active, Congress will be forced to decide on the DREAM Act

Imagine waking up one morning to the dream shattering news that, That your legal status is being stripped along with your career and to make matters worse you might get deported to a country that which they know nothing about. This is the case for the 800,000 dreamers living in the U.S right now after The Department of Homeland Security announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

As time progresses, the six-month deadline for congressional action to protect Dreamers is approaching and the sense of urgency seems to be deteriorating. There are many DACA recipients who've worked hard to get in college and even harder to make it through college. They were reverent enough to keep their records clean, and most importantly obey the United States laws, rules, & regulations. There are Dreamers who believe that most of the children's fleeing Central America and other countries are not coming to the United States just for fame and fortune. Instead, they are coming because their lives perhaps have been in jeopardy. President Trump's latest anti- immigration demand states that, any legislation to protect Dreamers include a crackdown on unaccompanied children, concentrated at the border; many believe that this is illogical and inhumane.

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