Immigration Reform In America

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Hook: Next month, we celebrate the holiday that commemorates the bond created by the native-born people of America and the European immigrants who came for a better life, otherwise known as Thanksgiving. Puritans had a difficult time in their settling process, which resulted in the loss of several lives to disease, dehydration, starvation, etc. It wasn’t until the Native Americans felt compassion for the Puritans, revealing it in the form of teaching them the ways of the land, that things started looking up for the Puritans. Four hundred years later, immigration remains to play a major role in our lives. In a country where the majority of its citizens are descended from immigrants, immigration reform can be a divisive topic. Background: …show more content…

Under DACA, its recipients, or dreamers, were both protected from deportation and were able to work through renewable two-year permits. During his presidential campaign, Trump promised his constituents that he would disassemble the program. When he gained the power to do so, he proposed to take a softer stance. However, on September 5, he reaffirmed that he would end DACA, but allowed Congress six months to decide whether the program would be made permanent. In those six months, Congress may also choose to vote on new measures to prevent illegal immigration or to make additional changes to DACA. The DACA program should be maintained in the US because it is more manageable to keep and it brings economic benefits to American

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