by Marissa Scales and Adriana Nouel
DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was created through an executive order in 2012. It’s a program that allows hundreds of thousands of young people that were brought illegally to the US as children to stay in the country under some requirements. Some requirements include no serious criminal history, arrival in the US before 2007, and being under the age of 16. These beneficiaries could live and work legally in US for a inexhaustible 2 year span.
President Trump issued an order today to end the Obama era “ruling’’. This “rule was to protect all undocumented young immigrants to the United States, calling on Congress to spend a big replacement before the 6-month-old starts. In March, officials said that some of the 800,000 adults or young people brought into the United States illegally qualify as children for the ‘’Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals’’ program.
A long time ago a policy existed that allowed them to remain without fear of the immediate expulsion and gave them the right to work illegally.
Recently Mr. Trump along with Attorney General Jeff “Sessions’’ announced the change in the Department of Justice, both agreed with the anti-immigrant activists. Trump said that those people in the country are illegally violating the law.
Trump maintains a statement that he recently said was fully fueled by a concern for “the millions of US states that were victims of this unjust system.” Mr. Sessions said in the program interview that he “denied engaging hundreds of thousands of US states by allowing the same illegal aliens to take those jobs here.” At the root of all this many people have made protests in front of the White House and the Department of Justice and in almost all cities of the Country. Democrats and some Republicans, business executives presidents of universities and immigration activists, condemned the measure as a frivolous and myopic effort as it was unfair to those young immigrants and also because it could hurt the economy in the country.
Through social networks “many’’ wrote “today is a very sad day for our country,” because “they think’’ it’s cruel to offer young people the American dream, to encourage them to leave and to trust in our government and from tomorrow night arrive with bad news as if you were punished. Former US President Barack Obama had warned of any threat to the program he would personally talk to Trump. Obama responded through social networks that regardless of the concerns or complaints of some United States we should not and can not threaten the future of this group of young people who are here without their own fault, they leave their country because of the economic situation, they do not represent a threat.