For those who are unaware of what DACA is -- or simplify refuse to take their time to research it because it doesn’t directly affect them -- it is a program enacted by former president Barack Obama that shields young undocumented immigrants brought in by their families from deportation, allowing them the legal ability to obtain work in the U.S., to acquire a driver’s license, and receive a social security number.
There are a plentiful amount of individuals who believe the removal of DACA would be beneficial towards the country as …show more content…
In his remarks, he directly denounced the very idea of granting any kind of amnesty to undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children through no fault of their own.
Mr. Trump and Sessions argued that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who “hurt native-born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.”
In a statement, president Trump says that he was driven by a concern for “the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair system.” Mr. Sessions said that the program had “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”
This line is drawn from the false narrative that immigrants steal jobs from American citizens. There is no actual evidence that DACA recipients have taken jobs from any Americans, let alone “hundreds of thousands.”
These people are not taking away the jobs of citizens. These people are working to be a citizen, to be the best they can, to prove for themselves and their families. These recipients worked tirelessly to get where they are. These people are our teachers, neighbors, parents, taxpayers, community members, nurses, doctors, and paramedics, such as Jesus Contreras who worked relentlessly for six days straight after Hurricane Harvey, rescuing people from floodwaters and taking some of them to local