In “Is Ending DACA the Worst Decision Trump Has Made?”, William Finnegan uses historical background, statistics, surveys, and effective usage of pathos to synthesize the compelling dissertation that Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) within his immigration crackdown is a detrimental mistake and will cause immediate suffering among immigrant children. These influential sources contribute to Finnegan’s argument as historical background, statistics, and surveys provide sufficient objective information to support his views and pathos to connect the topic to the audience’s personal life. Although some critics may believe ending DACA is a positive decision for immigration regulation, the arguments …show more content…
By giving a historical background on the program, it gives the audience a chance to familiarize themselves with the original purpose of the program and how it has benefited immigrants. The purpose of DACA is to protect undocumented immigrant youth who came to the United States, as a minor, from deportation (University of California Berkeley). Finnegan expands on its purpose and function by giving the background that over 700,000 undocumented immigrant children benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was created by former president, Barack Obama. Additionally, the author expressed that this program gave young undocumented immigrant children a chance to live, study, and work, giving them an equal chance to start a better life. In other words, these undocumented immigrants, also known as Dreamers, rely on this program to safely live a life in America and taking away DACA will take away that safety, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and losing their opportunity to live a life in America. This historical background provides a baseline for readers to understand the controversy of DACA and to establish credence with his …show more content…
He emotionally connects the audience to this topic by asking them, “But the question of the treatment of Dreamers is, in the end, an ethical one. What kind of people are we? How do we treat the strangers at our door? The Dreamers aren’t even strangers. We’ve known them almost all their lives” (Finnegan). This strategy is an appeal to emotions forcing the audience to face an emotionally-charged question that will spur some type of response. By doing this, Finnegan develops his argument, adding tremendous power to the idea that the elimination of DACA is an unacceptable decision which is suitable and
Imagine having an opportunity to further your education and build a better future for your family and yourself. Then all of a sudden all of those things have a possibility to vanish out of nowhere and now there is only fear. That is the feeling that many young people are feeling right now across the country. Tim Marema and Bryce Oates write about how the end of DACA affects every single person in the United States. They apply pathos and logos to appeal to the reader by informing them about what the issue is and what will happen.
Through the effective use of rhetorical tools and the arrangement of this essay, Chen tries to tell her audience that the Immigration Reform Act has been the year’s most feared, least effective, most popular, and most hated legislative discussion in Washington (Chen, para. 1). Chen portrays her high competence on the subject of Immigration Reform by concentrating her introduction on purposely appealing to her audience. By controlling the rhetorical distance between herself and the readers she develops a relationship and establishes her authority, while not portraying herself as a superior. She establishes her credibility and portrays her scholarly credit through her citations of literature and quotations from other experts. She then establishes
DACA is important not only to me but a lot of other people, including all my family members, I myself was an applicant, but as I mentioned requirements are very strict. As many people think that it will be good for the U.S. to remove it, it may also be worse, I have read before that removing it can worsen the working shortage. In my opinion, no one comes to the United States with the mindset of taking jobs away. They come with the mindset that it’ll be the be the best option for their children, or their family in
As Gonzales states with all of his evidence from DACA is that this is a good choice for America and that this is a wake up call to the Supreme Court, legal citizens, and the president that we need this immigration reform. It only just benefits immigrants in America but everyone in the U.S positively. The article targeted audience is legal citizens in America and the Supreme Court, in the article paragraph one sentence one Gonzales states that “No one has to wonder about the enormous consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to let stand a lower-court ruling blocking President Obama’s plan to protect from deportation millions of undocumented immigrants who are parents of citizens or permanent residents.” This sentence I feel that Gonzales main target is the Supreme Court but also all the legal citizens. In the sentence his tone feels disgusted that the lower-court declined Obama’s plan, his plan was to protect immigrants from deportation and to live in America free as a legal citizen.
On Monday, Oct. 10, the Memorial Murrell Library had a guest speaker. That guest speaker was Marie Marquardt, a young adult literature author. Marquardt does not only write young adult novels, but she is also an immigration advocate. “All the heated political red wing we hear about the 11 million undocumented immigrants trying to live in the United States, all the numbers, they don’t connect us to the everyday reality,” said Marquardt. “I started to think a great deal about the relationship between these really tough political issues that we’re living in the middle of.
Every time he drove his car, he ran the risk of being stopped by a police officer and getting arrested. In the Macrosystem layer, the 1968 law called the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), had created challenges for any illegal Mexican who had successfully crossed the border into America. The law expanded the border patrol and sought to punish employers who hired unauthorized immigrants. Isaias could not get a good job, because he was considered an unauthorized immigrant. Even though he applied to the DACA program, he and his family were still considered illegal immigrants.
I have not thought about how many children are here now, smuggled into the United States at young ages, who struggle with the insecurities of belonging somewhere. The fear associated with being deported or their undocumented family members being deported is real and heart wrenching. In my ignorance, I did not know about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) that President Obama launched during his administration. This program brought much security and relief to many young people to openly get jobs and a driver’s license for eligible undocumented immigrants under 31 years old.
It is something that will improve the country socially and economically. It would resolve so many issues regarding immigration reform and about all of the young undocumented alien minors in America. It is something that would motivate them even, because they have been given a second chance, which is great then. It will empower them; it will show them that you should never give up and that America after-all. These alien minors will become better-educated, higher-earning workers and taxpayers.
This source is the research finding of the writers. It is the research findings of the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP). They break up their findings in three different figures: Resources Accessed by DACA Recipients, DACA Recipients’ Connections to Deported Individuals, and Family Members Potentially Impacted by Comprehensive Immigration Reform. In these figures, they go in and explain more thoroughly the different kinds of impact DACA has had. Their research is very detailed and specific.
Some of the questions Americans should be asking are: How does the deferred action policy differ from previous immigration policies, how was it set into motion, and how will the changes impact America short term and in the future. The United States of America was formed, even before it was a country, by immigrants. Well before the Constitution was written, there were people looking for refuge here. The colonists were not the first to migrate from elsewhere.
The program DACA has caused a lot of controversy to why illegal immigrants deserve the rights for these benefits. The United States has always been struggling when it came to immigration laws. The benefit for this program is not only for young kids who will grow and have a career but also to let everyone know that it is okay if you are an illegal immigrant. Here in the United States we have these rights. The freedom to be who we want to be and not be judged for it.
Response to “Our Fear of Immigrants” In “Our Fear of Immigrants” Jeremy Adam Smith takes a neutral stance on the immigration and anti-immigration argument. Smith begins by telling the story of a 4th grade class at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, California who try to fight back against immigration laws after a classmate of theirs was deported back to his home country. Smith then goes on to compare the 4th graders to the adults of their town who fight for stronger immigration laws asking his readers what qualities the children possess that the rest of the citizens do not to make them react so differently.
In conclusion, Dana Gioia applies vocabulary and rhetorical appeals to actively influence his audience to agree to his argument. Furthermore, connecting his audience to the subject and inspiring them to help his issues and understand his
The Back of a Nonexistent Line In the film Documented and The New York Times article “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” Jose Antonio Vargas describes his experience as an undocumented immigrant in the United States and provides a passionate argument for creating a pathway to citizenship for others like Vargas, who are undocumented as well. Although both the film and article give the viewers and readers an insight into Vargas’ difficult journey, a particular scene in the film sends an unspoken message about the United States as a whole. In Documented, the scene in which Jose Antonio Vargas attends a Mitt Romney campaign rally is detrimental to the immigration debate because it demonstrates the need for Americans to be educated about undocumented
Reason #1 and Evidence One of the reason stated is that this law allows immigrants to be legal here if they've stayed here for 5+ years. This is important because 4.2 million immigrants have been here for 5+ years. In Obama’s speech he stated, “If you've been in America for over 5 years… you will be able to stay in this country.” Even though this new