The Deferred Action Of Arrival Children: Case Analysis

On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced an executive action that changed the lives of thousands of people. The Deferred Action of Arrival Children (DACA) was initiated in the United States. DACA protected undocumented minors from deportation, to pursue higher education, and authorization to public service careers. Today nearly 800,000 people have benefitted from the program and has contributed to the society economically, socially, and politically. However, due to the nation's reputation of open borders, many conflicts between the United States and other nations has resulted in terrorist attacks and has left the nation in fear/shock. On November 9, 2017, President Donald Trump was elected into office and was ready to initiate his
This immigration policy restricted immigrants from entering the United States based on instituted measures for exclusion of certain people, such as prostitutes, criminals, the handicap, and people who had a chance of being a public charge (Asumah & Bradley, 2001). Having such policy of excluding certain categories of people established power and control among the U.S. population, as well as ensuring the safety of the nation and its citizens. This was only the beginning of the immigration policy era within the U.S. The policy began to expand its exclusion to racial and ethnic groups as well. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Japanese Exclusion Act of 1907 were the first significant restriction of free immigration in the U.S (Asumah & Bradley, 2001). These policies were established due to the overwhelming mass of these ethnic groups within the population and the native-born Americans feeling of superior over them. This is the first of many examples of Americans expanding and restricting their immigration policy due a vast number of immigrants coming into the nation and making up a proportionate amount of the nation. As the immigrant population begun to grow in the U.S., immigration policy also expanded and more policies where initiated/enforced to control the power among the native-born Americans. But, as the diversity
But with the many policies and reforms commenced, immigration in the U.S. became more difficult, and many foreigners began to give up on their path to citizenship. Soon undocumented immigrants started to increase within the nation and the government knew they had to control the situation. But with two political parties with such different viewpoints on the topic of immigration, how are they going to approach the