[Blog 3] Alec Mueller - DACA
1. Why is President Trump taking action over Labor Day Weekend?
Trump is taking action over Labor Day Weekend because he needs to make a decision over whether or not the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will continue to exist before September 5th, which is when Republicans have planned to sue over its constitutionality.
2. Who was the DREAM Act intended to benefit?
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit children who had crossed into the United States illegally, and would otherwise not be granted citizenship because of it.
3. What did DACA do to help these same people?
DACA offered DREAMers a temporary grant of protection from deportation and a permit to work legally in the US.
4. What requirements do people have to meet in order to be eligible for DACA?
To apply for DACA, immigrants have to have come to the US before 2007, and have been 15 or younger when they arrived and younger than 31 when DACA was created in June 2012. They had to have a nearly spotless criminal record and be enrolled in high school or have a high school diploma or equivalent.
5. How was the original DREAM Act a compromise on the immigration issue?
The original DREAM Act was seen as a moderate alternative to legalizing all 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US by allowing people who’d come to the US as children to apply for legal immigrant status and eventually become citizens
6. Why is education hard to obtain for people who would qualify for DACA?
Unauthorized immigrants are likely to grow up in lower-income households and can’t get federal financial aid, including federal student loans. Plus some immigrants have been dissuaded from pursuing their educational and career goals by their unauthorized status.
7. How do these obstacles cause people to "adjust their expectations"?
Many lose motivation to try and achieve greater success because they can’t imagine an illegal immigrant succeeding.
8. Why is it important to note that 25% of DACA recipients have a US born child?
This fact is important to note because it shows that a lot of people have integrated significantly into American society and many lead a life very similar to that of a US born citizen.
9. When Obama created the policy in 2012, what did it actually do?
When created by president Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allowed young unauthorized immigrants who met certain criteria to apply for a commitment from the federal government for "deferred action", which prevented the initiation of deportation proceedings for two years. Successful applicants also receive a work permit.
10. What economic impact did DACA have on those who qualified for it?
For DACA recipients, annual earnings have increased 80 percent under DACA, from an average of $20,000 to an average of $36,000. Sixty-five percent had bought their first car, 16 percent had become homeowners, and five percent of recipients had started their own businesses.
11. What are the states suing the federal government for?
If Trump didn’t act to end DACA before September 5, a group of state attorney generals threatened to sue to do it for him. They want to ask a federal judge who already ruled one of Obama’s deferred action programs unconstitutional to do the same for DACA.
12. What happens to people protected by DACA if Trump ends it?
Immigrants working full-time jobs would have to leave them to comply with the law, or continue working at legal risk to themselves and their employers. Most immigrants in school would be able to remain enrolled but some might have trouble retaining their financial aid for the rest of their educations.
13. How did the DACA program make it easier to deport these people now?
Trump administration officials claim they’re targeting immigrants with criminal records for deportation. In practice, it appears deportation efforts are going after the immigrants that can be most easily tracked down and picked up. If this is true, it could put DACA recipients at substantial risk of deportation.
1. Why is President Trump taking action over Labor Day Weekend?
Trump is taking action over Labor Day Weekend because he needs to make a decision over whether or not the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will continue to exist before September 5th, which is when Republicans have planned to sue over its constitutionality.
2. Who was the DREAM Act intended to benefit?
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit children who had crossed into the United States illegally, and would otherwise not be granted citizenship because of it.
3. What did DACA do to help these same people?
DACA offered DREAMers a temporary grant of protection from deportation and a permit to work legally in the US.
4. What requirements do people have to meet in order to be eligible for DACA?
To apply for DACA, immigrants have to have come to the US before 2007, and have been 15 or younger when they arrived and younger than 31 when DACA was created in June 2012. They had to have a nearly spotless criminal record and be enrolled in high school or have a high school diploma or equivalent.
5. How was the original DREAM Act a compromise on the immigration issue?
The original DREAM Act was seen as a moderate alternative to legalizing all 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US by allowing people who’d come to the US as children to apply for legal immigrant status and eventually become citizens
6. Why is education hard to obtain for people who would qualify for DACA?
Unauthorized immigrants are likely to grow up in lower-income households and can’t get federal financial aid, including federal student loans. Plus some immigrants have been dissuaded from pursuing their educational and career goals by their unauthorized status.
7. How do these obstacles cause people to "adjust their expectations"?
Many lose motivation to try and achieve greater success because they can’t imagine an illegal immigrant succeeding.
8. Why is it important to note that 25% of DACA recipients have a US born child?
This fact is important to note because it shows that a lot of people have integrated significantly into American society and many lead a life very similar to that of a US born citizen.
9. When Obama created the policy in 2012, what did it actually do?
When created by president Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allowed young unauthorized immigrants who met certain criteria to apply for a commitment from the federal government for "deferred action", which prevented the initiation of deportation proceedings for two years. Successful applicants also receive a work permit.
10. What economic impact did DACA have on those who qualified for it?
For DACA recipients, annual earnings have increased 80 percent under DACA, from an average of $20,000 to an average of $36,000. Sixty-five percent had bought their first car, 16 percent had become homeowners, and five percent of recipients had started their own businesses.
11. What are the states suing the federal government for?
If Trump didn’t act to end DACA before September 5, a group of state attorney generals threatened to sue to do it for him. They want to ask a federal judge who already ruled one of Obama’s deferred action programs unconstitutional to do the same for DACA.
12. What happens to people protected by DACA if Trump ends it?
Immigrants working full-time jobs would have to leave them to comply with the law, or continue working at legal risk to themselves and their employers. Most immigrants in school would be able to remain enrolled but some might have trouble retaining their financial aid for the rest of their educations.
13. How did the DACA program make it easier to deport these people now?
Trump administration officials claim they’re targeting immigrants with criminal records for deportation. In practice, it appears deportation efforts are going after the immigrants that can be most easily tracked down and picked up. If this is true, it could put DACA recipients at substantial risk of deportation.
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