The Pros And Cons Of Deterred Action

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It is time to allow the hundreds and thousandths of young immigrants to become productive members of society. Many of whom who were brought to the United states by their parents in search of a better life and have no fault of their own. To make matters worse the recent decision announced by the department of homeland security to rescind the deferred action for child hood arrivals program most commonly known as (DACA). The Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals was an immigration policy that allowed undocumented minors who entered and lived in the country unlawfully to apply for, two year work permits and granted them deferred action from being deported to their home countries. It is important to note that there were requirements such as having …show more content…

To begin with an argument that is broadly talked upon is the idea that benefiting and providing illegal immigrants with amnesty and deferred action from deportation encourages more illegal immigrants to cross the southern border in pursue of those same benefits that the Dream act but more specifically DACA provides exclusively for those who are eligible. For instance, Peter Nunez (2017) a chairman of the conservative center for immigration studies as well as, a former U.S attorney, Mentioned in an article that, “The real problem with DACA, as with any form of amnesty, is the message it sends to the billions of poor and suffering people from around the world who would give anything to come here. That message says — if you can get here by hook or by crook — sooner or later we will give you legal status, let you stay, so you can then sponsor all your relatives to join you” ( Nunez, para. 5) In response to the claim made by Nunez it is true that people from around the world immigrate here in search of a better life, while others come here for the sake of their own lives as well as their families nevertheless, it is absurd to assume that those who do come to the U.S do so in seek of amnesty and benefits. In order to fully understand the issue It is Important to know that, the Unite Sates has been taking measures to take some control of the harsh situation in the northern triangle. The Department of …show more content…

According Danielle Renwick from the from the council on foreign affairs, about 10% of the “Northern Triangle’s” thirty three million citizens have fled due to the extreme circumstances. (How many people have left the Northern Triangle in recent years?) As illustrated in the graph below you can see a massive spark in homicides beginning in the year 2008 that lasted for the next few years and begun to decline, however El Salvador experienced a recent dramatic homicide spike beginning in the year