I am sure you can imagine the outraged that has come upon when the question: Should DACA recipients be given amnesty aroused. To reiterate, President Trump has recently rescind the DACA program leaving many in fear and disappointment and others satisfied. The word amnesty basically means that the government will pardon those who have entered the country illegally in this case would be as most like to call them, the dreamers. So the question still stands, should DACA recipients be granted amnesty?
In my previous post I talked about people who agreed upon the decision of giving amnesty to the DACA students. In this post I would like to talk about those who oppose. We can assume why there could be many reasons as to not agreeing however, opponents make their best argument for DACA students when they say that granting amnesty is a bad idea because it is unfair to American citizens.
Opponents say giving citizenship to immigrants is undoubtfully a poor proposal because the law of the land says otherwise. An opponent claims in his article that “There is only one way to ensure that illegal immigrants go to the back of the line, and that the rule of law is respected” he wants the rule of law to be enforced and followed by dismissing all the illegal immigrants. He also states that giving amnesty is just skipping steps and is unfair to others who are really trying to get into this country legally. They broke a law and for that they do not deserve a pathway to citizenship. A professor from Brooklyn Law School said that there can be a negative aspect in regards of allowing amnesty “they can encourage people to break the law in the hope that they will eventually be forgiven rather than punished”. This basically means that these undocumented individuals will actually be rewarded for breaking the law by coming into the U.S illegally instead of being punished.
Granting amnesty can mostly be ineffective to the country because the idea of a pathway to citizenship will stimulate more people to come. An individual who is anti-immigration asserts in his article that giving amnesty would just create a “chain”. For example, “As soon as amnestied illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens, current law allows them to petition for their parents to also obtain lifetime work permits and permanent residency”. The chain does not stop there, once the parents become citizens they are able to grant anyone else, such as their siblings and parents. Having this chain go on and on can definitely lead to over population. According to another article giving amnesty to DACA recipients “would open the door for 1.4 million more of their parents and relatives to enter the U.S., tripling their population and adding substantial costs to taxpayers. In other words, it is an easy pathway for more immigrants to enter the U.S causing remarkably issues such as increasing the population and taxes. Not to mention that they will take up more resources and those are some issues the U.S tries to avoid.
DACA;Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 