DACA Informative Speech

Imagine that you, a pure and innocent child no more than the age of five, leaving your country that you know next to nothing about and coming to America, land of the free. Imagine, twenty years later, being torn away from the country that you now call home because you do not have an eight and a half by eleven-inch piece of paper of paper. This will be the reality of every illegal immigrant if DACA is gone for good. DACA, also known as The Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrival Policy, prevents the children of illegal immigrants from being deported. The policy allows people that came United States before their sixteenth birthday, have a minimum of a high school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) equivalent, and have no criminal record to obtain a work permit and various benefits. DACA was created under the Obama administration and since the policy was enacted in June 2012, eight hundred thousand immigrants are protected through the DACA program. Eight hundred thousand lives have been given a second chance. However, President Donald Trump has repealed DACA and is allowing Congress, the executives,

As humans, it is our duty to protect the lives of the innocent majority. Families who fled from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador cannot go back to their country. Poverty, drug cartels, and lack of crucial, critical, everyday essentials are just a few reasons why these immigrants cannot return home. According to the simplified version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "14. The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live. If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe"(United Nations). DACA can protect immigrants who would not feel safe if they were to be deported. Removing this vital program violates the rights of a human being. Would you want that to happen to