You Can Still Renew Your DACA

Even though the Trump Administration and extreme right-wing politicians are taking every opportunity to attack the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the fact remains: people are STILL able to renew their DACA. - Renew -

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Have you ever been in an embarrassing situation or have you had to deal with someone who, due to his little knowledge of the subject, makes you look ridiculous? Well it happened to me no far from now. But today this will be part of the past, at least concerning to this immigration memorandum call DACA.

As an immigrant from Colombia, I feel identified with the fears and struggles that dreamers face on their daily basis. they were kids when they got here. DACA is a two-year temporary work relief that allows dreamers to be counted, to work, have a driver's license and other benefits I already mention in the past speech. But those are just a two (2) year temporary benefits.

Now, with trump as president, dreamers run the risk of lose this benefits. That's why we all need to take actions...we all can stop this, actually, regardless of the congress decision, on January 18 2018, a University study find out that 73% of American voters support legislation that would allow DACA individuals to remain in the country legally.

That’s why today I want you to be part of that 73% and support dreamers who are nothing else that hardworking individuals who not only contribute financially to the economy, but also with their talents and skills, they make a better community.

America needs immigrants, and immigrants need their families to stay together.

- Would you take a hand labor job where you have to work outside? from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 6 days a week and get paid $70 dollars a day with no benefits, sick days, no vacations, no insurance or anything like that. And you still have to pay taxes. Would you take it? Well, families of dreamers are doing those jobs. Those that you call criminals are doing what you dont wanna do.

- America is the mother of immigrants. What made you forget your roots? Why trump forgot his first generation who make it to the promised land. a first generation that destroyed many generations.

- Now that DACA program is ended, congressmen and Senators are trying to explain that this is not dreamers’ fault because coming to the US was not their idea as child, they had no say when their parents bringing them. So they're putting the blame on their dreamers parents and I completely disagree with that, they are the original dreamers, who did not have a choice that cross the border and sacrificed everything they know so their children can achieve an education, giving them a better future. In fact, 85% of immigrants came to work and improve the living conditions of their families. And those that you call the dreamers are just a result of their sacrifice.

- Dreamers are young people who study in american schools, play in our neighborhoods, with our kids and those who are Americans in every single way but on paper".

- Most dreamers are under 25, the prime working age, they are currently holding jobs, going to school, paying taxes, and they are not criminals. All this to said that education is key, but most importantly, there is a crucial necessity in America for an immigration reform.

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There’s not a single solution or immediate solution for this problem. The temporary solution is to keep and protect DACA and take actions to come up with a immigration reform that fix the issue from the roots. But for now, DACA is the solution.

- The US is a nation of immigrants where Illegal immigrants contribute to the society into multiple things, one of them is its economy. In which, US has a negative worker replacement rate, meaning america has to have immigrants. Not only for cheap labor but because of their contributions.

- The best way to get control of the american borders is to legalize dreamers, to act, to come up with an immigration reform since they cannot control the black market and since ending DACA doesn't mean dreamers will leave america, it means they will lose their jobs and eventually get deported, if its happen. But if they decided to work under the table and live in the shadows, the illegal immigrant % is only gonna grow. Ending DACA does not gonna solve the problem, it will make it worst and heart the economy even more.

- DACA pay in taxes about 60 billion dollars a year and it's more of the consumers benefits. In addition, if they commit a crime, they will be easily track that if they were illegals.

- DACA is an act of prosecutorial discretion to defer enforcement action against "low-priority" individuals.” who are contributing to the country and the society. They are students, hard workers, teachers, work as bilinguals with police in law enforcement. In fact on 2016, the medical school application increase a 83% because of DACA.

As a matter of fact, By generating a path for citizenship, it will add ( 22.7 ) twenty two point seven billion dollars to the economy and is expected to increase over the years furthermore.

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