The United States has been a hub of immigration for hundreds of years, taking in many diverse cultures from all over the world. However, there has been disparity within our borders in recent times on immigration. Some blame the differing ideologies of each culture and what they morally stand for; some blame discrimination. Our government needs to work unanimously to create a bill, not divide and cause a stall on work trying to be done. There needs to be major reform to the United States’ immigration policy, ranging from enforcing legal citizenship to making it easier and faster to obtain US citizenship The DREAM Act is an example of a stalled bill in Congress that was introduced to “protect undocumented students from deportation and to provide them with a safer learning environment via a legal pathway for citizenship” (Kim 55). At the present time, undocumented students are treated the same as undocumented adults, possibly preventing them from obtaining anything that requires a legal status. Sometimes, they “[may] not even know that they are undocumented immigrants” (Kim 56). I believe that the DREAM Act needs to be revised into a law that can pass through Congress. The bill makes a logical claim that students who have no influence on whether they are illegal or legal immigrants should be allowed legal citizenship at a …show more content…
It would be a direct change to our Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. If repealed, the act would not cause the situation with illegal immigration to improve. It would create a whole entire lower class of people where “children may have no legal home country to turn to” (Birthright 8). One study by the Migration Policy Institute showed that “the unauthorized population in the U.S. would reach 24 million by 2050” (Birthright 7) if birthright citizenship were to be repealed. Not only would it be a tragedy to the entire immigrant community, but also a negative impact on the whole