Essay On Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals

The question of how to deal with minors who have been brought into the United States of America illegally has been a topic of controversy for many years. More recently, in 2012, former President Barack Obama created and implemented, without any legal or constitutional authority some have accused, an immigration policy that would protect illegal minors from deportation and more (Spakovsky, 2017). This policy, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA for short, has recently been rescinded by current President Donald Trump. With the details of what is in store for hundreds of thousands of children and young adults still up in the air, there is much protest coming from sides against the removal of this policy. This issue has managed to constitute a divide where even attorney generals of some states are filing lawsuits against the Trump Administration and
The way this act came to be law is where much controversy begins, but the very origins of DACA can be traced back to the DREAM Act, or the Development, Relief, and Education form Alien Minors Act which was initially introduced in 2001 and considered that minors without legal status be granted permanent legal residency (Singer, Svajlenka,Wilson, 2015). Activists for this act played a major role in the push for President Barack Obama to use executive action for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (Singer, Svajlenka,Wilson, 2015). Some view the use of executive power used by Barack Obama as unconstitutional and illegal, stating that he went over the heads of congress and that the unconstitutionality can be confirmed because of Barack Obama’s unsuccessful attempt to expand DACA by trying to implement DAPA, or Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, that would also protect the parents of illegal minors (Spakovsky,