Immigration in the Unites States has always been very popular. Immigration issues date back to the seventeenth century when colonies settled on land that would later be known as America. This paper will concentrate on Immigration Reform, specifically the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Before an overview of DACA and further information about it, there will be an explanation of how successful and failed immigration reforms in the United States, such as the DREAM Act, has led President Obama to enact administrative reprieve to unauthorized youth in the U.S. Moreover, there will be an explanation how the media has portrayed DACA, and how a sociological perspective helps better understand the need for immigration reform.
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For example, the “last and largest legalization in the U.S. history” (Wong and Garcia 2015:2) known as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized unauthorized immigrants who were residing in the U.S. since January 1, 1982. Furthermore, IRCA had prohibited employers to employ unauthorized personnel. It had instead created temporary agriculture work, work programs and legalized certain workers (Federation for American Immigration 2008). During the process of IRCA, “street-level bureaucracies played a particularly significant role” (Wong and Garcia 2015:6) because this is when community-based organizations were uphold to be a substantial help for unauthorized immigrants to complete IRCA applications. According to Tom K. Wong and Angela S. Garcia (2015:7), two professors at the UC San Diego, “CBOs were integral to IRCA, it is reasonable to expect that DACA-eligible youth who have access to nearby immigrant-serving organizations are more likely to obtain the information, resources, and support that can help them and their families navigate the DACA process.” Therefore, IRCA will influence future proposed immigration reforms, such as DACA. Overall, IRCA helped legalized 2.7 million unauthorized immigrants (Wong and Garcia …show more content…
It is considered as “one of the harshest federal immigration laws in the U.S. history” (Abrego 2011:343). More than 650, 000 unauthorized immigrants were deported during the time and expanded the control and surveillance of ‘illegal’ immigration in the U.S. One example of a program created under IIRIRA is the “287 (g) program” that made the public police collaborate with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in “targeting and detaining unauthorized individuals” (Abrego 2015:343). This is the demonstration of the policy of “show me your papers” that caused many unauthorized individuals to be deported. Hence worth, Immigration generally is still an issue and spoken, whether it be in political, economic, or societal
The first …show more content…
For example, the “last and largest legalization in the U.S. history” (Wong and Garcia 2015:2) known as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized unauthorized immigrants who were residing in the U.S. since January 1, 1982. Furthermore, IRCA had prohibited employers to employ unauthorized personnel. It had instead created temporary agriculture work, work programs and legalized certain workers (Federation for American Immigration 2008). During the process of IRCA, “street-level bureaucracies played a particularly significant role” (Wong and Garcia 2015:6) because this is when community-based organizations were uphold to be a substantial help for unauthorized immigrants to complete IRCA applications. According to Tom K. Wong and Angela S. Garcia (2015:7), two professors at the UC San Diego, “CBOs were integral to IRCA, it is reasonable to expect that DACA-eligible youth who have access to nearby immigrant-serving organizations are more likely to obtain the information, resources, and support that can help them and their families navigate the DACA process.” Therefore, IRCA will influence future proposed immigration reforms, such as DACA. Overall, IRCA helped legalized 2.7 million unauthorized immigrants (Wong and Garcia …show more content…
It is considered as “one of the harshest federal immigration laws in the U.S. history” (Abrego 2011:343). More than 650, 000 unauthorized immigrants were deported during the time and expanded the control and surveillance of ‘illegal’ immigration in the U.S. One example of a program created under IIRIRA is the “287 (g) program” that made the public police collaborate with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in “targeting and detaining unauthorized individuals” (Abrego 2015:343). This is the demonstration of the policy of “show me your papers” that caused many unauthorized individuals to be deported. Hence worth, Immigration generally is still an issue and spoken, whether it be in political, economic, or societal