Alien Minors (DREAM) Act Analysis

In 2001, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act was introduced. Since 2000, the reforms or the issues that arise are the increase in border security, expanded interior immigrant enforcement, improvements to employment eligibility verification, legal admissions reforms, and legalization of the millions unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. (Wong and Garcia :4). In 2001, the Dream Act was suggested in order to better relieve issues concerning immigration, specifically the 1.5 generation that were brought at a young age and have lived in the U.S. ever since. The DREAM Act “addresses the legal status of this group by enabling undocumented youth who satisfy certain requirements to legalize and eventually apply for citizenship”
In the presidential election between President Barack Obama and Senator Mitt Romney in 2012, the prospective vice president of Mitt Romney, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was going to suggest a Republican version of the DREAM Act (Wong et al. :8). This was going to help the Republicans to receive more support from immigrant voters. In order to compete with this, President Obama initiated the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program that would give temporary deportation relief and work authorization for two years to unauthorized youth. He announced it on June 15, 2012, but it did not really began until one month later, August 15, 2012. However, this did not guarantee a pathway to citizenship. Although this was similar to the DREAM Act, it was very different in which it was temporary relief and could be revoked at any time. Over a half of million applied, 573,000 and 430,000 did receive deferred action (Wong and Garcia 2). Only a small percentage were denied. However, there were studies that told that males were more likely to be denied than females and the older the applicant the much likely chance of denial
It is viewed on the news, television, social media, and much more. “…factors such as the active role of the Mexican consulate and broader exposure among Spanish-language press than Asian media could play a role in the differences among national origins groups and their ultimate application and denial rates” (Wong et al. 6). “A June 2013 amendment to the DHS Appropriations Act introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) prohibits the administration from using federal funds to implement DACA” (Wong et al. 8). “..forefront of the DACA process, working to raise awareness about the program, organize DACA clinics and workshops, provide legal services and assistance, and even offer financial assistance to help pay the $465 app fee” (Wong et al. 26). Therefore, certain mostly watched things can spread the knowledge to the large masses of people. However there still has to view with uncertainty because not everything might be true. There are biased perspectives on the media that the audience is mostly unaware about. Because media wants to achieve the heist rankings or earning, they must spicy it up a bit to be better prepared. “2006 protests against the Sensenbrenner immigration bill, H.R. 4437, it is clear that the media can serve as a mobilization tool around the immigration issue…Spanish-language radio served as a mobilization vehicle that encouraged individuals to rally