Dreamers Should Be Illegal

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Dreamers are individuals that were brought to the United States before their sixteen birthday by their parents illegally. Their parents bought them for better opportunities and a better life from what they had experience. The process of becoming a dreamer without the fear of deportation is very complex. They have to be of a certain age and present in the United States for a certain number of years, cannot commit a crime, violate immigration laws, and have to be a graduate or in some form of schooling. However, now they are being threatened with taking away the only program in which they are protected from deportation. Dreamers are protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program established during the presidency of President …show more content…

Including, being identified as criminals or jobs stillers within the workforce. Crealy dreamers cannot be criminals because those who have a criminal record cannot be enrolled in the program. One reason dreamers immigrate to the United States is to find work they could not find in their homelands. If a dreamer can win a job over a United States citizen is because they have earned it. They have gone through the same process in which other individuals have gone through to be eligible for the job. They simply worked harder than the rest and deserved the job. Dreamers are mainly affiliated with the word illegal because of their illegal ways of entering the country. Hence, the reason why people think they should be deported due to having to break the law. However, the actions committed were not their fault nor where their parents for trying to give them a chance of a better life. Instead, it is the fault of the reasons why they are running away from their native …show more content…

"we've got 80 percent of the American people saying, do not turn our backs on young people who have lived in this country for virtually their entire lives. We have got to act and act soon."(Milligan) to protect our family members, neighbors, friends, and co-workers. They are not given this privilege willingly, instead, they earn their status through hard work, which they must be allowed to keep. If we want America to be great again we need to continue the program “[established] in 2012, [where] we took a step forward by implementing DACA. We should not take a step backward now” (Napolitano). It is immoral to want to strip them of the only hope they have of creating a better life for themselves. The great country America is presumed to be known as will be eliminating the hopes and dreams of over 800,000

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