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DREAM Act= Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act

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DREAM Act= Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act

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Bill was presented by members of Congress

Gives legal status to illigaly immigrated children who went to school in the USA

Several versions were introduced to the Congress since 2001

One bill passed in 2010

DREAMers= Young illegal immigrants (Double meaning since they are full of hopes and dreams

Enables them a better future with perspectives

Encourages illegal immigrants to get their children to the USA

Candidates can not be deported

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"I will build the wall and make Mexico pay for it" [1]

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"I will build the wall and make Mexico pay for it" [1]

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

established by Barack Obama in 2012

tied to DREAM act

protects those who unlawfully entered America as children

grants people right to work legally

Trump wanted to abolish DACA

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age requirements

no felonies or significant misdemeanors

GED, currently in high school, graduated

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apply for drivers license

work permit

social security number

NOT legal citizenship

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abolished 15th of July 2021

-> not taking new applications
-> DACA status for previous members stays
-> still able to renew status

Reason : Obama has no right over granting legal deportation relief

ruled by a lawyer in Texas

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- expansion of border between Mexico and USA [2]
- sections built funded exclusively by US [3]
- political struggle for funding led to government shutdown for 35 days & declaration of national emergency
- 732 km built, 79 km had no barrier before [4]
- research indicates no effectiveness for reducing illegal immigration [5], some indicates 15 to 35% reduction [6]
- Ways to illegally overcome wall: misuse of legal ports for entry, travel visas, stowaway [7], tunneling, climbin, boats or aircrafts [8], sawing through [9]
--> it is more dangerous but still possible to overcome the wall
- economy: welfare benefits are smaller than cost [10]
- environment: habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, harm of endangered species [11]

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According to the official Joe Biden website he will…

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According to the official Joe Biden website he will…

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… take urgent action to undo Trump’s damage and reclaim America’s value

… modernize America’s immigration system

… welcome immigrants in their communities

…reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees

… tackle the root causes of irregular migration

… implement effective border screening

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Blameless for current predicaments (decision to immigrate made by parents)

Country already invested in them (schools)

Allow them to contribute the the US economy and society

Stereotypes doesn’t apply to these migrants (assimilated to the culture)

Transform lost generation into US taxpayers

Enhance national security

Catalyst of a wave of social services and social activism

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Is there a growing migrant crisis on the US-Mexico border? | DW News

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Is there a growing migrant crisis on the US-Mexico border? | DW News

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https://www.usimmigration.org/glossary/dream-act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act
https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/what-is-the-dream-act-and-who-are-the-dreamers

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daca-judge-orders-u-s-to-close-program

https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/what-is-daca/

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-takeaways-daca-ruling

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Picture 2: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/trump-border-wall-design-black-beautiful-covered-in-spikes

[1] "Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border". BBC News. January 26, 2017. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019.

[2] Rodgers, Lucy; Bailey, Dominic (March 6, 2019). "Trump wall – all you need to know about US border in seven charts". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019
[3] "How realistic is Donald Trump's Mexico wall?". BBC News. January 26, 2016. Archived from the original on September 1
[4] Lardieri, Alexa (January 21, 2021). "DOD Pauses Border Wall Construction to Review Biden's Executive Order". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
[5] Gabbatiss, Josh (February 17, 2019). "Trump's border wall will not work 'no matter how high', scientists warn". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
[6] Feigenberg, Benjamin (July 3, 2020). "Fenced Out: The Impact of Border Construction on US–Mexico Migration". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 12 (3): 106–139.
[7]Da Silva, Chantal (January 18, 2019). "Visa overstays far exceed illegal border crossings in U.S. – and a wall won't change that, study says". Newsweek. Archived from the original on March 1, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
[8]Thomas-Peter, Hannah (January 23, 2019). "Sky Views: Donald Trump's wall, and the myths that sustain it". Sky News. Archivedfrom the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
[9]Stracqualursi, Veronica (November 2, 2019). "Washington Post: Smugglers in Mexico are cutting through parts of Trump's border wall". CNN. Archived from the original on November 2, 2019. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
[10]Piyapromdee, Suphanit (2020). "The Impact of Immigration on Wages, Internal Migration, and Welfare". The Review of Economic Studies. 88: 406–453.

[11]Silva, Danielle; Gamboa, Suzanne (April 22, 2017). "Trump's Border Wall 'Catastrophic' for Environment, Endangered Species: Activists". NBC News. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.

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During his first day in office, Biden reserved many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration

→ halting the construction of the border wall

-> ending Trump’s travel ban restricting travel in 14 countries

-> reaffirm protections for DACA recipients

—> getting in contact with the Mexican President to find solutions

—> replacing the word „alien“ with „noncitizen“ in US immigration laws by passing a bill

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https://joebiden.com/immigration/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/joe-biden-der-kuenftige-us-praesident-im-portraet,SEnSCRs

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before Obama, immigrants were treated with no access to medical treatment and other support in the US

expectations for some immigrants

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“Start up Visum” (2016) Obama

families were not separated and instead were brought together

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Department of Justice (DOJ) established “zero tolerance policy” on May 7th 2018

all illegal immigrants are criminally prosecuted

children and parents are separated because of the ”zero tolerance policy”

parents are deported to federal criminal facilities

children must be detained

children only remain there for 20 days, if the parents are not released by then the children are transferred for care and custody

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https://m.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/260892/migrationspolitik-aktuelle-entwicklungen

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/homesec/R45266.pdf

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2. December 2021: Biden administration reinstates Trumpera Remain in Mexico policy 

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2. December 2021: Biden administration reinstates Trumpera Remain in Mexico policy 

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- US & Mexico government have agreed to a resumption of the program
- Joe Biden canceled the "trump policy" after he became president

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3. December 2021: Remain in Mexico migrants face deadly peril as Biden restores Trump policy 

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3. December 2021: Remain in Mexico migrants face deadly peril as Biden restores Trump policy 

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- Biden's administration will subject thousands of people to "enormous suffering"
-> will leave them vulnerable to rape and kidnap, if they stay in dangerous Mexican border
- asylum seekers from other Latin American countries will be obliged to wait while their case is assessed

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15. December 2021: Mexican women shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: "I am looking for justice" 

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15. December 2021: Mexican women shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: "I am looking for justice" 

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- the women survived and had filed a claim against the US government as a precursor to a federal lawsuit (Marisol Garcia Alcantara)
-customs & Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, said the agency could not comment because the shooting was still being investigated internally by its Office of Professional Responsibility
- Chris Magnus, the reform-minded Tucson police chief, updated Tucson's use-of-force policies and made many there changes during his time with the department

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19. December 2021: How a reboot of Trump's Remain in Mexico plan isn't the solution migrants are hoping for 

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19. December 2021: How a reboot of Trump's Remain in Mexico plan isn't the solution migrants are hoping for 

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- Advocates critical of the immigration policy's reinstatement, while asylum seekers see the plan as better than nothing from the US
- immigrants are seeing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) as an opportunity to entering the US legally
- Under Trump, MPP had less-than-1% acceptance rate for asylum cases
- Dangerous and unsanitary conditions for Families and children
- parents pay smugglers thousand of dollars to sneak their children into the US
- the local migrant population began to overwhelm the city
-> more than 2.000 people are living in a camp near Reynosa's city center -> 1.150 are in test in a shelter space
-> Shaddai Ministry Church offered to host 125 people in tens

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-mexico-border

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US-Mexico border | US news | The Guardian

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National guardsmen in riot gear pushed back hundreds of migrants near the Guatemala-Mexico border, blocking their path to the US