DACA Argument Analysis

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In “How DACA pits ‘good immigrants’ against millions of other, “Joel Sati, a PHD student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at Berkeley Law and an immigrant rights activist, reports that DACA had some benefits but the policy was never a suitable solution to our country immigration status. He believes that DACA hurt the movement by categorizing immigrants as “good” and “bad.” He then goes on and states that DACA has thrown the non-Dreamer immigrants under the bus. Even Though Joel himself is a Dreamer, he believes that with all the benefits DACA has provided, it was the wrong law to pass. Joel ends his argument with the statement, “unless we move beyond DACA, we now stand to pay the price for our myopia.” I agree with Joel that if we do not progress in our immigration situation, then DACA was the wrong movement toward our immigration status. Although I agree with that statement, I disagree to a certain extent with him that we need to make a shift toward legalizing 12 million immigrants and having safety from deportation.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), on June 15, 2012, DHS announced that certain people who came to the U.S. as children may request consideration of DACA (USCIS). There are several criteria
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legalizing 12 million immigrants tomorrow with safety from deportations. As we all know, there are such people as “bad immigrants,” those that have committed any type of felony, unlawful things, and those that have any type of negativity background history. In my eyes when I hear “bad immigrants” this is what I pops in my head. These immigrants do not deserve to live in this country where you were given a chance and failed already. “The Trump administration this past week announced plans to remove those “bad hombres” or criminal immigrants from U.S. jails much faster.” (Persaud) I believe this is the correct version of “bad immigrants” and there is no reason for them to feel overshadowed by the policy of