Persuasive Essay On The Dream Act

Immigration is a hot topic these days in the United States, between legal and illegal, skilled and unskilled and children and adults there is no one solution fit for them all. The dream act focuses on children and young adults who entered the country illegally as children and grew up in the United States. These “dreamers” as there called, are one category of immigrants that still do not have exact rules about what should be done with them. The dream act seeks to allow dreamers the chance to become citizens given fairly strict criteria for them to follow requiring college level education or military service. The act should not be worded in this way, it should apply to those enrolling in higher education, military service and government jobs

All immigration is not good and therefore the dream act needs to be specific to certain groups of them as to not allow the negatives outweigh the positives. One of the main reasons that Peter Dixon professor at Moash University and PhD in economics says is that, “Based on the supply and demand model of labor the projected number of unskilled immigrants will have a demanded wage rate lower than minimum wage, leading to increased unemployment.”(Dixon). Because of this the dreamers need to be defined only as those who fit a criteria that does not cause harm to others or by extension them selves. The goal of letting dreamers stay is for improvement; the negatives of not having a filter for them could be counter productive to all immigrants. With this in mind filters are needed to make sure negatives are not adding up and harming the system rather than improving

For the individuals who have served in the armed forces or in a government position it is illogical to send them away after having helped the country. Any dreamer who has lived in the United States should have the right to stay if they have worked directly for the government because if the government used them they should be considered part of that governments country. Deportation is cruel because most of the time people immigrate to a better place than they came from. Both Gordon Hanson, professor at UC San Diego, and Marcel Fafchamps of Stanford university believe this to be the cace by saying, “ Large wage differentials,coupled with binding and slowly changing quotas on U.S. legal immigration, create queues to enter the United States.”(Hanson), and, “Theories of work migration predict that individuals move to increase their utility or welfare.”(Fafchamps). They both agree in their research that immigration is primarily caused by the need for better arrangements of work or conditions. Deportation of an individual who is not causing an issue is silly and a waste of money. When thinking about an immigrants life one should not think they should be deported but instead what good reasons are there for deportation. If they are doing no harm what is the problem with letting them stay? Like the saying,”if it ain’t broke don 't fix it.” do not over complicate a situation that does not need the attention. If it is not a