Dream Act
What does the Dream Act seem to help with young children lives who are immigrants? The Dream Act gives young children the chance to live in the United States as immigrants to attend school in general freedom knowing they can achieve the same goal as citizens. Which will give them a broader vision of having a better education then pursue into a wonderful job. However, it is difficult for one to achieve these life time opportunities by the regulation guidelines. Sometimes for students to achieve these opportunities is only by getting scholarships then trying to make a living to get to the next level.
On the other hand, majority of children were brought on this soil at a very young age. An example that can be given is from the age of five years old or older have live in the U.S. were brought to the U.S. Which gives them an easy way to stay because they were law set that they can live here in the U.S., and no need to return to their country which brings majority of problems with different issues. Another view that was pointed out is that immigrant’s children are less likely to be convicted of any crime. Which shows that these children were raised and showed that coming to the United States is not about enjoying easy life but getting the opportunity to learn and become something. The opposite of the Dream Act is the American Dream where immigrants moving from one country to the next so that they can have a better way of life.
In the article Dream On by Mark Krikorian he identifies that the Dream Act might be a hard issue to control because Alien Minors is corrupting the system by having an easier opportunity to stay in the United States by having access to going to school and eventually become citizens in the long run. In the article he states that the ideal age for legalizing would be “the age of two through sixteen years of age”, and this is abusing the idea of the Dream Act. The Dream Act should only be used if the legal people such as resident immigrant with social security and a green card are not treated equally should or may use the Dream Act to help defend their safety in America.
Another reason for The Dream Act is one might be able to wait so long by their parents or relatives living in the United States to do paper work with legal documents to become a full citizen an experience the Dream. This illegal view is corrupting all those opportunities with people who corporate with the government. On the other side, is the minor that has just arrival on the American soil is having an easy way out, because as a child there is no harm to just stay in a country. It should not be of such, there should only be one rule that is set for all “immigrants”. In the article, Dream On it argues that “the Dream Act ignores all three amnesties which have harmful consequences…” (pg.467). This goes to show that the same Dream Act can affect the United States in many areas for example, having too much illegal immigration can affect tax revenues and more. Those people will want the same treatment as a resident to be able to have a “decent job, vote, college, and have a house of their own”. This can be viewed in two ways good and bad, but is it okay to open the American land so easily to everyone while Americans themselves are not able to have a job because of “illegal immigrants”.
In the other source that I have went in-depth to understand more about the Dream Act why is it so important is by name of Investing in the American Dream by Roberto G. Gonzales. This article highlights that people who arrive to the United States and who also lives here experience living in poverty where they are force to collect food stamp and other government assistant. Which should not be the case it even makes it harder for international students (undocumented youth) to have a good education in the college life as well. An issue that was brought up is that international student is that these students tend to pay more money without any assistance from the government for example no “financial aid”. They are more likely to pay more tuition example triple that a regular citizen or legal immigrants to pay triple than want a legal person pays for college which is not expected I believe it would be the other way around. Such is not the case clearly shown in this article as I go on to understand that it is more than ridiculous to live in poverty trying to become someone, but the society still forces you to not succeed at all.
Another point of view in this article that draw my attention is “what is holding back undocumented youth?”. Clearly, it is laws made to protect the federal and state. When I say federal and state is taking the rights over all from children education is that students suffer overall from not getting any assistance with financial aid. An example, that can be given out the article is, “without financial aid, it is extremely difficult for most Americans to afford a college education. Given the limited economic resources of most undocumented youth, rising tuition rates and high overall cost of post-secondary education are daunting, if not prohibitive. As a result, only a small fraction of undocumented high school graduates moves on to institutions of higher learning”. At the end of that article it goes back to explaining that Dreamers will give back to America if they get equal treatment. He discusses about the Dream Act would allow undocumented youth to give back to America. The question that many others and I would ask is in what way would they give back and how effective would it be to the United States overall. In the first article Dream On spoke about giving chances but as I go on to read and understand and stand in some agreement with how much chances are it that one country should give to immigrants may bring unjust which leaves the Dream Act just another dream. However, as I go on to read I begun to understand that maybe it is a worth to have such Dream because poverty in America should not occur no matter reason is it has the most factories people should be able to get a job.
In my search, I found an article entitled “Two Years and Counting: Assessing the Growing Power of DACA” by Roberto G. Gonzales and Angie M. Bautisita-Chavez. Gave data about new “jobs offer after receiving DACA 45 percent earnings”, internships 21 percent learn new skills and driver’s licenses 57 percent was obtained, and health care was increase by 21 percent. These data gave clear view on how helpful it was for DACA to give back to the community and gave back a hope for the Dream Act.
Over time the Dream Act is manageable towards college students to get some form of citizenship. In the article by Von Diaz who spoke about “After the Dream: Young Immigrants Move Past Seeking Path to Citizenship”. This is because children have been on the front lines of today’s most prominent civil rights struggles. In the article it highlighted that “90,000 young immigrants in New York were eligible for the Dream Act,” but there was an issue of not receiving financial aid for college even though it was introduced that federal Dream Act was enacted but led frustration. Which led some Dreamers driven away but many others fought for their rights. A woman by the name of Sonia Guinansaca who was an immigration activist was known as a Dreamer herself. She was arrested in the civil disobedience demonstration. She uses white as sign of peace in her cap and gown did not just demonstrate but also recognize that she was a poet and a cultural activist proving that immigrants had potential to live the dream (Diaz, 2014). The dreamer Guinansaca stated in the article that, “after years of being a leader in the immigrant rights movement, public policy debates began to feel robotic, and often stripped her of her identity”. She highlights that they were many undocumented immigrants which brought notions of who was good immigrants and who needed assistance of the prosper according to the article.
Another individual who have brought from Bangladesh with his family by the name of Razeen Zamen have live his life in the U.S. many years was target after her father was involved in politics by official immigration channels but as she understood that her family was scammed by an immigration attorney which led them not to be documented in the United States. This goes to show the small mistakes that may occur he or she can lose that Dream Act. Which entail not becoming a citizen for a long period of time because of one mistake occur. Overall many people like Razeen and others have gone through the struggles before gaining the Dream Act but has become a better person even if they have not gotten their citizenship at an early age.
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A M E R I C A N I M M I G R At I O N Co U N C I L, Robert, Gonzalez. “Investing in the American Dream.” INVESTING IN THE AMERICAN DREAM (n.d.): n. Pag. June 2014. Web. 4 Mar. 2016.
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Von Diaz “AFTER-THE-DREAM-YOUNG-IMMIGRANTS-MOVE-PAST-SEEKING-PATH-TO-CITIZENSHIP” April 2014 Web. 24 April. 2016
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-american-immigrants
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