Summary: The Controversial Issue Of Immigration

In the United States, many families are currently being affected by the Dream Act’s failure to pass. The Dream Act would have given many undocumented children the ability to have a pathway to citizenship. The Dream Act believed in the importance of social support within the family by supporting family unification. However, due to its failure to pass, millions of undocumented children are now at risk of being deported and having their families divided. Although the U.S. government created a new policy known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), it is not providing immigrants with the same opportunity. DACA instead give undocumented people the opportunity to not be deported for a maximum of three years, but will never become a pathway to permanent citizenship. The Dream Act and DACA ultimately affects the physiological, emotional, and mental health of the immigrants who reside within the U.S.

The debate over illegal immigration has been a constant and ongoing struggle in the United States. Millions of illegal immigrants are living among us in the country, we have more entering daily. Recently, President Barack Obama touched on the topic with his immigration executive order. Unfortunately, with the republican takeover of the white house, many of his actions are not being supported. This is viable evidence that there are people who want to help fix the immigration system in a way that will benefit illegal immigrants and give them a fighting chance to prosper here in the United States. With that being said, there are also powers who do not want to see that happen because they believe that it is not in the best interest of the United States to open their borders to illegals. This puts to question what the next steps for the United States will decide and how that will affect Americans across the country. My goal of this essay is to enlighten the moral concerns in the debates pertaining to immigration.

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

Immigration is an issue that many people see as small and insignificant. Many believe that it doesn’t concern or affect them in any shape or form. Truth is, it doesn’t matter if you're African American, Caucasian, Asian, Mexican, or another race, immigration is an issue that affects everyone. Immigration affects the economy, the workforce, families, and the individual’s themselves whose main goal and dream is the “American Dream” that they come to the US looking for.

The Democratic Party has fiercely advocated for the enactment of the DREAM Act. Republicans however have strongly opposed it and have left little hope for any reform for illegal immigrants. However not passing the DREAM Act and stalling on reform for illegal immigrants is doing an injustice to these immigrants and most importantly to American citizens. Today many US citizens suffer from a depleting economy and anything that can help revive it should and must be done. I see the DREAM Act as a great opportunity to aid and provide relief to the economy.

Furthermore, your immigration reform plan has far too many flaws and it is absurd. It is incredibly cruel to want to end birth right citizenships, require that Americans get jobs over immigrants, and enhance penalties for overstaying a visa. This country has always been a land of immigration, and suddenly deciding to deny foreigners’ rights is immoral and uncalled for. We have economic and religious freedoms, the freedom of speech, and the right of suffrage. With your reform plan, freedom will cease to exist. This is exactly the opposite of what our founding fathers would have wanted. Racism continues to be a rampant problem in America, and your proposals will only further the issues we have.

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.

Our nation is strongest when we embrace the diversity of ideas and contributions from our young people. Today’s decision to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) policy effectively disrupts the futures of the nearly 800,000 young people who have called the United States home since childhood — and represents an incredible loss for America, undermining the very foundation on which this country of immigrants was built.

Using the Pew Research Center projection that, by 2050, more than one-third of the nation’s school children “younger than 17 will either be immigrants themselves or the children of at least one parent who is an immigrant,” (2014) the question that arise is how do we the help these children at the micro, mezzo, and macro level since immigration as such a significant impact on our society. The proposal of this discussion board post is to improve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The DACA protects eligible undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were children. DACA provides employment authorization (work permit) and protection from deportation for a renewable two-year period for the population of younger illegal immigrants in the United States.

In his National Review article, Steven Camarota argues the case to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an immigration policy issued by the Obama administration to protect immigrants who came to the country under the age of sixteen, known as Dreamers, from deportation, calling the program “illegal” and “overbroad”. In truth, though, DACA is a fair and moral act that not only protects deserving immigrants, but also benefits American society as a whole.

Mark Rosenblum’s “U.S Immigration Policy Since 9/11” does not provide an argument but rather he describes “challenges, and identifies questions central to the future of the U.S immigration debate. Overall, it seems that prior to 9/11 it seemed migration negotiations were stalled every time. Whether this was done purposely or is merely a coincidence is my concern.

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.

The success of America over the centuries has been helped enormously by immigrants into the country. However, immigration is now a very controversial issue in US. Many of the immigrants working in the country now are illegal, for example, workers who have come over the border from Mexico. These immigrants want to be recognized and allowed to work in the US officially, and on May Day 2006 over a million of them protested in rallies held in major cities across America. The immigrants mainly work in particular industries. For example, around 22% of all construction jobs are held by illegal workers. Other popular sectors are farming, cleaning and preparing food. Typically, these are low-skilled, low-paid jobs. Overall, immigrants account for around

This is a feature article. This article contains the news elements of consequence, proximity, human interest, and prominence. This article was based in New York and the topic of the termination of the DACA immigration policy has been a controversial topic because it impacts hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. The DACA policy allows people to enter America as minors and if the policy is rescinded by Trump then hundreds of thousands

Immigration is one hot topic in today’s conversation and society. Many think that immigrants coming to America are taking many jobs away from who need them. Some also think that there are jobs being taken away are not ones that Americans would not perform due to the horrible working conditions, low pay, and lack of important medical coverage. The immigration issue has come to a point where the United States must make a decision to spend a lot of money to curtail the amount of immigrants coming here.