Protecting DREAMers Is Important And Easily Achievable

Protecting DREAMers is crucial. These people were brought to this country by their parents and had no choice in the matter and they should not be punished for that. Technically they are here illegally but the vast majority of DREAMers work, pay taxes and contribute to American society just like any other American. And that is what they are. American. The United States of America is the home of the immigrant. Unless you are 100% Native American you have an immigrant, whether you like it or not. That’s fact.

Solving the issue, as far as I’m concerned, is simple. Under DACA they weren’t able to follow the green card route which would see them become permanent residents of the United States. DACA basically just protected them from immediate deportation. It wasn’t a permanent solution and Trump’s removal of DACA has now paved the way for a permanent solution to happen.

That permanent issue should involve DREAMers applying for residency and being able to live here permanently and legally with a green card. After five years a path to citizenship should be allowed, as is standard right now. What a lot of Trump voters seem to think is that residency and citizenship would all be paid for but that wouldn’t and shouldn’t be the case. As I said, the vast majority of DREAMers all pay their own way in America and would be able to afford the fees to become a permeant resident and a citizen. This is by far the most sensible route to go down and pretty simple when you think about it, considering all of the infrastructure for residency and citizenship is already in place. They would just need to have something in place which states that they, as DREAMers, are now allowed to go down that route.

Trump: The Un-American President

When you look back at the history of American presidents it’s not hard to realise that the current holder of the office is the most un-American that there has ever been. Since day 1 Trump has either signed executive orders that go against everything America stands for or rescinded executive orders and policy that Obama brought in in his eight years in office. And today, with Sessions confirming that DACA is being rescinded, if Trump wasn’t already the most un-American person to ever hold the office, he is now.

What Trump and many in his administration somehow fail to remember is that every single person in America who isn’t Native American, is an immigrant. This is basic knowledge for anyone with a fully functioning brain. What’s also basic knowledge is the fact that America has the home and land of the immigrant. From Italians to the Irish, the United States has seen numerous instances of mass immigration over the years. And while DACA can be seen as a different kind of immigration, it’s the same kind of thing. 800,000 people will be at risk of deportation of Congress doesn’t sort out Trump’s mess in the six months that they’ve been given to fix things. And those 800,000 people were all children when originally brought into the United States by their parents. They had no say in the matter and in the vast majority of cases they have zero connection to the country they originally came from. That of course means that if deported back to those countries, they’d have nothing. No family, no place to live, no job, no money, absolutely nothing. Since coming over as children these people have attended school, worked hard, paid taxes, had children themselves, and contribute as every other American does in this country. But that isn’t good enough for Trump.

Immigrants have previously been welcomed to this great country with open arms because Americans themselves are immigrants. It is ludicrous to say that these people shouldn’t be here because they are illegal. False, these people should be here because they are American. America is all they’ve known, all they’ve worked for, all they’ve lived for. And the thought of taking that away from them is as un-American as it gets.

And this is just the latest in a long line of un-American things Trump has done. It’s time for Congress to act to protect these people. And when they’re done, it’s time for them to realise that Trump is at the core of all these un-American issues because he himself is un-American.