Essay: Immigration – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (D.A.C.A)

Immigration. Americans think of it as Mexicans, African Americans, and even Latinos crossing the Mexican-American border into the states and stealing American jobs for themselves because they can’t support themselves or their families.1 This program stands for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The D.A.C.A program is classified as the first step towards stopping these immigrants from getting onto American soil. This program allows certain undocumented immigrants under the age of 16 to cross over onto U.S. soil and be allowed to live under the government’s protection from deportation back to their home country.  People think of “immigration” differently than other civilians do depending on how they define it. Immigration is defined as the action of coming to live in a foreign country.
This topic is a massive issue right now in the United States of America. Americans think of illegal immigrants coming onto U.S. ground and “stealing” our jobs as an irresponsible event for them to do. Whenever these illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.- Mexican border in the 1990’s, the president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau stated that agricultural employers who advertise for jobs have no choice but to use immigrants.  Immigrants coming to America means good and bad outcomes. An example of a good/bad outcome could be that Americans give these poor immigrants food, a place to stay, and then they turn their backs on them and manipulate these immigrants to work and not even pay them which is upsetting.
It is up to the Congressmen to decide whether or not to protect these illegal immigrants that enter the country from destroying innocent American lives. Illegality is defined as the state of being contrary to or forbidden by law. It came into existence after 1965, but decades before 1965 the media rarely depicted immigration in a negative way.- One of these past dreamers have a straight but forward opinion on this rough situation in America. “I think it is an unjust act of what the government is doing with these young immigrants who benefit from D.A.C.A and it’s not their fault that their parent’s brought them to a country that is not fair, these illegal immigrants have dreams that they want to pursue; all of us illegal immigrants have the right to pursue and realize that our dreams can come true”
Arizona local police are empowered to enforce immigration laws on illegal immigrants that try to enter the U.S. when they patrol the border. In Tucson, Arizona the federal court processes 70 migrants a day through the Operation Streamline program. People wonder about the Operation Streamline Program and what it is. Well, this program is a little-known border enforcement program that adopts a “zero-tolerance” approach to unauthorized border-crossing by engaging in criminal prosecution of those engaging in unauthorized border-crossing. These “streamlined” migrants are charged with a criminal offense and are imprisoned.4
This world is full of hate and happiness. The United States of America is known as the freedom country. Now, Americans can live what is called the “American Dream” which consists of having a house, a car, a family pet, a spouse, and two kids. Everyone can experience this way of life in America. Just read about this past dreamer “I didn’t ask my mother to bring me to this country when I was just 12 years old, but I give thanks to people who helped me to get my green card which allows me to live and work in the states without any problems and look at me now, I am a proud American Citizen of the United States of America” People might be questioning what a “green card” even is because they might not know. Well, this might answer that question for those who don’t know what a green card is. A United States lawful permanent residency is informally known as “green card” and the immigration status of a person is authorized to live and work in the United States permanently.
This is how immigrants become legal in the United States of America. It is different in other countries to become a legal citizen. For example the UK. To become a legal citizen of the UK, immigrants must be the age of 18 or older and not being of an unsound mind meaning that they cannot be insane. Be of good character, and must be able to speak the english language. Or the immigrant must be married to a Britain Citizen. All around the world there are so many  different ways of becoming a legal citizen of a different country.
People have had the nagging question of what is D.A.C.A? Now, who decides to read this knows what was discussed about in the essay. Immigration. Americans think of it as Mexicans, African Americans, and even Latinos crossing the Mexican-American border into the states and stealing American jobs for themselves because they can’t support their families. People see immigration differently than other civilians of America do depending on how they think of it and how they see it.