Informes de Deferred Action For Childhood Arrival

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DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVAL “DACA”

In the following essay, I’m going to talk about the program denominated “DACA”, what is about it, who support them, what is happening with the President of the United States (from this point forward “POTUS”), what did he announced about it, how that can be related with some of the theories that we have seen in the course and the same way how is related with topics like racism, nationalism or radical right.

To begin, I’m going to define the program.

“DACA is a federal government program created in 2012 under Barack Obama to allow people brought to the US illegally as children the temporary right to live, study and work legally in America. Those applying are vetted for any criminal history or threat to national security and must be students or have completed school or military service. If they pass vetting, action to deport them is deferred for two years, with a chance to renew, and they become eligible for basics like a driving license, college enrollment or a work permit.” (WALTERS 2017)

It is important to mention who supports “DACA”:

• Immigration advocates.
• Most of Democratic politicians.
• A majority of national politicians in the Republican party.
• Including such prominent figures as House speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona senator John McCain.
• A prominent group of evangelical leaders.

All of them reportedly that didn’t want Trump to scrap DACA.

On September 5th POTUS announced the end of the program for “Dreamers”^[1], most of them are from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and the vast majority live in California, Florida and New York. They currently range in age from 15 to 36, according to the White House.

What has Trump announced?

“During last year’s divisive election campaign, Trump promised to rip up DACA immediately, and make the deportation of the US’s estimated 11 million undocumented persons a top priority, along with his threats to ban all Muslims from entering the US, and build a wall along the entire border with Mexico. He has not yet successfully executed any of these threats.

The administration has now announced it will begin “an orderly, lawful wind down” of DACA, including “the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program”, which was a memo from homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano to immigration chiefs in 2012 telling them not to enforce deportation of Dreamers. Trump is now giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative solution to resolve the Dreamers’ status. Because Obama created the DACA program as an executive policy decision, Trump had the power simply to reverse his policy. Meanwhile, he has indicated that the government will “generally not take actions” to remove law-abiding DACA recipients.” (WALTERS 2017)

This program it is not the first that Donald Trump has been against. Obamacare^[2] is another example of the differences between Obama’s and Trump’s administration.

“On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump said his administration would “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties,” by which he meant Daca and another order protecting some parents of children in the US, where the children had legal status but the parents were illegal immigrants. Trump did scrap the second program, which had been blocked in the courts and had never come into effect.” (WALTERS 2017)

The relation between this issue and the theories I found it in part of Realism in the Trump’s administration and his demeanor, and in the opposite side Liberalism with Obama’s administration.

What liberalism is about it?

On the other hand, “Liberalism is historically rooted in several philosophical traditions, that posit that human nature is basically good. Individuals form groups and, later, states. States generally cooperate and follow international norms and procedures that they have agreed on”.

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