DACA Descriptive Essay

The program known as DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was created by the Obama Administration in 2012. It protected young immigrants brought to the United States by their parents from deportation. This program is now being unjustifiably removed by the Trump Administration and many people are left asking why as the reasons given were inadequate and flawed in many ways. For example, in his announcement, Sessions said, “DACA denied jobs for hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.” However, journalists working for Politifact looked into this claim and they asked five experts to help explain if this claim was true or false. What they found was that DACA workers represent an incredibly small amount of the 160-million labor force, about a quarter of one percent. They also found that this idea of immigrants ‘taking’
According to an article written on Factcheck.org and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, “those who committed ‘a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor offense, or three or more other misdemeanor offenses’ are not eligible for DACA. Neither are those who pose a public safety threat, which ‘include, but are not limited to, gang membership, participation in criminal activities, or participation in activities that threaten the United States.’” These articles contain evidence that proves that DACA and immigration in general is not linked to a greater crime risk in the United