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The following research paper was conducted by the team which supports the dreamers to continue having the legalization status in the United States. They conducted a project on the topic of dreamers which is relevant since the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program are being stripped off their legal status as U.S citizens.
The team members based their arguments on the economic, moral, social and legal grounds. The team also stands against the inhumane and cruel act of rescinding the DACA program without protecting its recipients whose application will expire.
Introduction
There is an estimate of about 11 million immigrants in the United States who have been unregistered as citizens in the nation. However, there is a program that creates a path to citizenship to children who are brought to the country illegally through known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (Walters, 2017).
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This program allows has facilitated the protection of an estimated 800,000 young immigrants known as dreamers from deportation (Singer and Svajlenka, 2013). The program was created about five years ago and currently almost 690,000 dreamers are being enrolled into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program to prevent their immigration. This program provides them with the privileges of being a U.S citizen such as work permits and driver’s license.
The topic on arguments supporting the case for dreamers is very relevant and timely. This is because the program for dreamers, DACA is out into question for its purpose. This is following the president of the United States, Donald Trump announcing that he is planning to phase out the program. Therefore, the topic is relevant because the future of the DACA program for dreamers is uncertain.
The president of the United States desires to stop the applications to the program and seize the renewal application by October 5th. Also, Trump is currently pursuing the Congress to pass on legislation that will provide the budget for building the wall which is being debated now.
The uncertainty of this situation is that the legal status of the dreamers may be supported a Trump claims but also it might be stripped. The DACA program was effected under the rule of the Obama, former president has been rescinded by Trump who wants to create a new policy that will replace DACA (Talamantes, Bribiesca, Rangel-Alvarez, Viramontes, Zhou, Kanzaria and Moreno, 2019).
However, there are various arguments that support the case for dreamers to be provided the security of legal status after the application of young immigrants into the program. The objections towards the legality status of the DACA program are based on the moral, economic, social and legal grounds.
The dream Act is currently under debate in the United States by the Congress where some are planning to propose legislation along the rescindment of the program. Therefore, thus research will support the dreamers Act from being ended by Donald Trump since it will affect the country socially and economically. Additionally, it is immoral since these kids will be gravely hurt by the action of ending the program.
Supporting the Dreamers Based on Moral Grounds
The stripping of the legal status of the dreamers will violate the moral principles of the American legal system. This will influence the deliberations of the dreamers’ Act which is an immoral conduct. The deportation of the dreamers who are the young immigrants that came to the United States as young kids is immoral. This is because it is not right or fair to deport these kids who had no say in coming to the United States illegally by taking away their rights as citizens. The act itself cannot be moral since migration of these young dreamers was something that was out of their control. Although their entry into the United States was unlawful the violation was committed by a child.
According to the law affirmed in the United States it is only common sense that the degree to which children are morally responsible for their action cannot be compared to that of a child. There is a recent study that found that most of the DACA participant enter the United States at an average age of 6.5 years (Singer and Svajlenka, 2013). Therefore, in most cases, they did not come to the U.S by their own will or choice.
Instead, they just followed their parents to the country they were fleeing to. Also, because of their status as minors during the occurrence of the crime they are not legally responsible for such actions. One does not need to be a therapist or philosopher to under that the actions of a child to follow their parents has little choice but to follow wherever their parents go.
On the other hand, the support for the dreamers is based on immorality which claims that the act of deporting the young immigrants who came to the United States illegally is more of a punishment. Therefore, this deems the act to be immoral since those kids will be punished by being stripped the rights of U.S citizenship. The act itself will be a response to what the kids did when they were young hence the law regards it to be morally inappropriate. The act of deporting the recipient of the DACA program is a crime penalty but it a uniquely sever one (Wadhia, 2013). This is because the participants of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival will be denied the rights if citizenship in the United States as a punishment of violating the law.
Additionally, the deportation of the DACA program recipient is a form of banishment from the United States community. This is because the young immigrants will be expelled from the United States as they are not legal citizens. Therefore, the act if crossing the United States borders when they were children will result in a significant punishment in virtue of a crime they committed in their childhood. On the other hand, the decision by Trump to rescind the dreamers Act is a punishment because business owners who continue employing DACA recipients after their work permits expire will suffer steep penalties. If it was not a punishment then the employers to DACA participants who are registered under this program would not be subjected to any fines or even jail time (Hing, 2018). It is a cruel and unusual punishment to separate an individual from the family and friends they have known and the life they have built in America (Farrell, 2018). Banning these young immigrants even if they are adults now is a punishment for being a part of the greatest country in the world due to the unthinkable consequences of another.
Lastly, the act of deporting the participants of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival program from the United States is immoral since it will impact the recipients and hurt them deeply. Therefore, it is not just or fair that they have to experience this type of hurt and treatment. Subjecting the immigrants to deportation will cause grave harm and injustice because even adults who are deported into their third world countries suffer intensely (Worster, 2018). The impact will be greater for DACA recipients since the only homes, friends and family they have known are in the United States. Also, we can consider that some of these DACA participants have children in the United States who are citizens by birth.
Therefore, it would be cruel and immoral that their parents are deported for acts they committed while young. The devastating effect it would have on the children since they will no longer have the parental love and care they ought to have. The cruelty and suffering it will have on these immigrants is long lasting. The DACA parents who have kids would wish to go with their kids if they are deported but their children do not want to go with them.
This creates depression and panic among the DACA recipients. Many of the immigrants under the DACA program will face real losses when they are no longer in protection for legal status in the United States (Farrell, 2018). Additionally, they will be stripped from some of the benefits that they have been saving for through their social security numbers. Benefits such as education, health and health insurance will be ended for these DACA participants before they are deported. Therefore, they will experience harm and losses in terms of any health coverage, access to higher education, loss of job and insurance covers as they are not legal United States citizens.
Supporting the Dreamers Based on Economic Grounds
Immigrants make up a great component of the United States employer demographic and a significant number f this group belong to the DACA program. In addition, most of these individuals who hold DACA status have contributed greatly to the Unites States economy through paying taxes and being employees of the state.
Since the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program in September 2017, the United States economy will be affected in various ways. First, if the young immigrants were to be given a legal status through the Dream Act, this would not be costly for the government. Therefore, deporting these young immigrants will be costly to the U.S government and that money could be used to boost the economy.
Also, most of these dreamers have attended school and have earned diplomas ad degrees thus instead the government can retain them as U.S citizens and they would get a return form these investments. When an analysis of the DACA immigrants is done as employees, the results indicate that they have had a continued and longstanding effect on the U.S economy. This is because, at least, 72 % of the 25 Fortune companies such as Walmart and Apple employ the DACA workforce (Bogart, 2018). With this high rate of employment, they have been contributing to the stable U.S economy.
On the other hand, the Center for American Progress conducted a study which revealed that DACA recipients have a positive effect on the wages which is a crucial part of the economy. This is because the average hourly wage increased by 69 % after the young immigrants obtained a DACA status (Roe, 2018). The increase in the salary and wages for workers in the United States means a higher purchasing power.
Therefore, the DACA status holders will contribute to the economy of the U.S through buying cars and purchasing homes as they constantly seek a better life in the country they migrated to. Also, based on a study it is established that most of the dreamers are over qualified for some of the job positions they have. This is attributed to the fact that they lack a legalization working status. However, if they have access to legal work options, they can boost the economy of the U.S since their jobs will match their skills which will make them become more productive.
Secondly, the team takes a unified position to support the dreamers because they contribute to the economy of the United States through ownership of businesses. Therefore, the collapse of the DACA legislation will have a massive impact on the economy of the country because most of these eligible participants own small businesses.
There is no doubt that the epicenter for the economy of the United States is based on businesses that operate within the country. The American dream for most of these migrants who flee from bad conditions is to be small business owners. These young immigrants are only allowed to own such simple small business because they they have acquired the legalization working status.
However, if the program is to be shut down, small business such as restaurants and stores will be forced to close down. Also, these businesses employs almost half of the United States population and their shut down would create unemployment in the economy. A large portion of these jobs are owned by eligible dreamers who also employ other young immigrants. Therefore, taking away the portion of the small businesses in U.S will cause a fiscal shock to its economic stability. Consequently, if the Trump administration and Congress retrieve from helping the DACA recipients the small business in the country will decrease with time after their legal status expires.
DACA ensures that the enrollees to the program go through quality education to motivate them to startup businesses that improve the health of the economy. Unfortunately without its existence the number of businesses in U.S will reduce hence influencing job creation opportunities. The hope that all immigrants and other people from third world countries have pertaining the American Dream creates an influx of a higher earning group in the labor pool. If these dreamers are sent out of the United States, the impact will be felt by them as well as the economy in the country (Worster, 2018).
Thirdly, the support for dreamers to be part of the U.S citizenship is that they will contribute to the U.S economy as tax payers. If the dreamers are given the legalization work status they will become more productive which increase the tax revenue for the United States. Also, the legislation of the Dream Act will help transform these immigrants into being eligible U.S tax payers. Through payment of tax, these dreamers will be able to contribute to the economy and return all the investments that the United States has offered in terms of education, Medicaid and health insurance.
Otherwise, if the young immigrants who are members of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival are deported, these will force them to live in the shadows. Trumps decision to deport the dreamers will result into them living underground and resisting their deportation which means that they will be unproductive in a nation that won’t acknowledge them. Therefore, they will not pay tax and won’t have the capacity to take such responsibilities of any U.S citizen. Instead, the government will be promoting tax waster instead of tax payers once the DACA recipient begin to be deported when their permit expires (Wadhia, 2013).
Supporting the Dreamers Based on Social and Legal Grounds
The team also takes a unified position that support the dreamers in the United States based on the social and legal grounds. Socially, the United States will be affected once the DACA recipient are forced to encounter deportation.
This is because when the Congress and Trump administration pass the legislation status against the DACA program, there will be conflict, chaos and panic in the country. This will lead to the dreamers whose application will expire soonest to go underground as they will not be willing to leave the U.S (Coutin, Ashar, Chacón and Lee, 2017).
Therefore, for these immigrants to be removed out of the shadows will call for national security. Since the government considers them to be illegal persons they will not come forward. The national security of the U.S will be affected since the dreamers will be living in the shadows and fear of being captured for deportation. The social life in the U.S mainly for places with the highest population of the dreamers will be disrupted. People will no longer be able to live openly and contribute to the society as tax payers, employees or employers to other citizens.
Also, to succeed to be a participant of the Dream Act, the government had to perform background checks and obtain the address and contact information of the dreamers. Therefore, the national security will look for the dreamers whose application has expired and can no longer renew. On the other hand, since the dreamers who belong to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival are willing to contribute to the society and give public service to the country they should not be deported.
They will improve the social status of the U.S as some are willing to provide services wither through the military forces or non-profit enterprises. Henceforth, the Dream Act could act as the key to a wave of services and social activism in the nation. Most of these eligible young immigrants are eager and seeking to contribute their energy and time to the country which embraces and accepts them thus the DACA program should be maintained.
