and education for Alien Minors, is a federal bill. This federal bill can allow undocumented children, under the age of 18, to receive financial aid for college, from the government and can also lead to legal status for these children. Senators Orrin Hatch, a republican from Utah, and Richard Durban, a democratic from Illinois, first proposed the DREAM Act in 2001, to congress, during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. It was introduced as “H.R. 1918” in the House of Representatives and…
Karl Vick’s article “By Ordering Salvadorans Out, Trump Inverts An American Promise,” from Time discusses how the Trump Administration is snatching back the idea of the US softening the landing for millions of people who arrived without papers and over time became Americans. The article “To Shut Down or Not to Shut Down?” takes a different perspective. The article written by Liz Mair from U.S. News focuses on two big issues. Those being what to do to protect DACA recipients and reauthorizing…
A cell is the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells. “The essential characteristics of [these] cells are their ability for self-renewal and the ability to form one or more specialised cell types over time” (Carvalho and Ramalho-Santos 596). In other words, they serve as an internal repair system. When a stem cell divides, each new cell can either remain a stem cell or any other type of cell with a normal yet more specialized and…
The innocence of a child is a something of admiration. They exhibit zero worries apart from attending school, making new friends, and endlessly dreaming about their future which makes most not aware of the chaos happening in the world. Some are are not even aware that they have committed a major crime against the American government until late in their adolescence where it is too late for anything to be done. President Obama has fought many times during his presidency for the rights of…
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The 2001 Patriot Act has been apart of everyday life for Americans, whether in the form of TSA at an airport or the NSA, and many find this act to be unconstitutional. Article I. What the Patriot act is. The Patriot act was a law signed in by congress after the September 11th terrorist attacks. The main purpose of the act is to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack like 9/11. How the Patriot act goes about preventing that is another question. The act is found to be unconstitutional to…
One third of all the land in the United States is owned by the federal government, and 90 percent of that land is in the Western United States. The federal government currently manages over 30 million acres of public lands in Utah. A number of politicians and stakeholders claim that the federal government is mismanaging public lands and should relinquish control to Utah. This is not a brand new concept for Utah, but has become more of a possibility in recent years through the Utah Public Lands…