Thursday, October 24, 2013

Everyone has the Right to Dream




Christina Giles
Z1674507
ILAS 100



ICE is the immigration and customs enforcement and their mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. Everyday people are getting deported back to their country of original birth land.  Not only does this affect the adults because they lose their jobs and the income that they were making here in the United States, but it also affects their kids.
Children and young adults are going to school to better their education. Deporting students that are enrolled in school just because they don’t have a paper that says US citizen or resident is not a legitimate reason to take the opportunity away from these students. Students are in school to better their lives, get a job that pays them a decent amount of money, and at the end of the day it is also making them intelligent.
 Thanks to the federal policy of DACA, which stands for deferred action for child arrivals, allows young unauthorized immigrants who are low enforcement priorities to remain in the country temporarily. Students should not be taken away their dreams because he or she is illegal.
Deferred action means that it can be granted to individuals who are in removal proceedings. Those who are in the deferred action status can apply for an employment authorization. Although it may sound easy to get into this DACA process it has many requirements. Some of the requirements include: being under 31 years of age as of June 15, 2012, came to the U.S. while under the age of 16, have continuously resided in the U.S. from June 15, 2007 to the present that are currently in school, have graduated from high school, have obtained a GED, or have been honorably discharged from the Coast Guard or armed forces, and have not been convicted of a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor, or more than three misdemeanors and do not pose a threat to national security or public safety.
            I believe that Latino’s are migrating to the United States to better their lives. No Latino has an intention to come to the US to be lazy, go to jail, or not do anything to improve their lives. If that was the case Latinos would not migrate to the Unites States. The big misconception of allow immigrants to work is that they are taking their jobs. I believe that Latino’s are the most hard-working people in the United States because they know how valuable having their job can be. Their intentions are to help their families, to better their lives and their children’s lives. In order to help better their children’s lives, the parents put their children in school.
            The United States is only a few of many countries that require child education. I personally cannot relate to this topic, but I believe that students that want to enhance their education should be able to go to school. What many people do not see is that these innocent children did not have a choice to decide to come to United States their parents or family members brought them here. These children and young adults also have dreams of achieving success. Everyone should have the right to obtain a dream they can accomplish.



No comments:

Post a Comment