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   TERMINATE YOUR RIGHTS
   DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It was created to help people who entered the country illegally as kids, as they receive a renewable two-year period of immigration benefit from deportation and eligiblity for a work permit. The policy was created after acknowledgment of DREAM act students were raised in the US, and it was a way to remove attention from people who were not a threat to national security in 2013. Though the DREAM act bill had failed to pass Congress in 2007, many thought it was a drving force behind President Obama creating DACA in 2013. "The policy allowed certain immigrants to escape deportation and obtain work permits for a period of two years, renewable upon good behavior. To apply, immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012, must have come to the U.S. when they were younger than 16, and must have lived in the U.S. since 2007. In August 2012, the Pew Research Center estimated that up to 1.7 million people might be eligible." (Wiki). As of today there are 1,688,600 approved cases under DACA, ending it will cause all those people to face the threat of deportation and displacement. Majority of these people have never known another country as home and did not make the decision to cross the border. 
   The termination of DACA relates to human rights because it is a clear violation of thousands of Americans rights. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 13, "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state", and article 26 states "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.". The Trump Adminstration is in clear violation of those two basic human rights if DACA is not renewed or blatantly terminates the bill. As I stated before over 1.5 million people will be under the threat of deportation, people who pay taxes and have rights just like us. "MPI estimates that as of 2016, 1.3 million young adults ages 15 and older were immediately eligible to apply for DACA. The number rises to 1.7 million when including an additional 398,000 unauthorized immigrants who met all criteria but for high school graduation or current school enrollment."

  The Academic article I choose was titled "Trump Administration Ends DACA Program", and it gives the history on how DACA was created by President Obama to help undocumented immigrants get temporary work permits and protection for deportation. It tells that DACA recipients are immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in 2007 as children. It also details on how the recipients will be effected from here on now as DACA will not be renewed and the recipients will lose their work authorization over the next two and a half years, and how their employers should treatment and accept their unathuorized work permits.

  I will be contributing to the wikipedia entry, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The basic history of when, why, and how DACA was created are already stated in the entry. It also gives some incite to the amount of people enrolled under DACA, and how many people it has affected so far. The entry also tells of DACA's impact on the economy, education, crime, migration flow. It details of how and why president Obama wanted the policy passed and the trouble it had to go through in Congress. Finally it also gives some information on president Trump's eventual termination of DACA and how it has been planned since the beginning of his presidential campaign. I want to add statistics on how many people will be affected if DACA isn't renewed, which rights in the UDHR were violated and how they were violated. I also want to list the impact it will have on the lives of the people who need DACA to make a living. 

These are my sources and academic articles:

• Hipsman, Faye. "DACA at Four: Participation in the Deferred Action Program and Impacts on Recipients." Migration Policy Institute. August 2017. Accessed November 16, 2017. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/daca-four-participation-deferred-action-program-and-impacts-recipients?gclid=CjwKCAjwu7LOBRBZEiwAQtfbGE4CmoV93PYriEtIbJruhKKKwbDLTcl73VsqOGN6vyj-KPrwSxv6dBoCl0EQAvD_BwE.

• "Data Set: Form I-821D Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals." USCIS. Accessed November 16, 2017. https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/immigration-forms-data/data-set-form-i-821d-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals.

• "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." United Nations. Accessed November 16, 2017. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/.

• "Taxes & DACA: What do I need to know?" United WeDream. Accessed November 16, 2017. https://unitedwedream.org/daca-tips/taxes-daca-need-know/.
• "WIRAC Challenges Trump Administration's Termination of DACA." Yale Law School. September 5, 2017. Accessed November 16, 2017. https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/wirac-challenges-trump-administrations-termination-daca.

• Fordyce, Hannah. "The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice." DACA and DAPA: The Downsides | The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice. Accessed November 16, 2017. https://jgrj.law.uiowa.edu/article/daca-and-dapa-downsides.

• Nadiminti Adinata, Geetha. "Trump Administration Ends DACA Program." FordHarrison. October 20, 2017. Accessed November 16, 2017. https://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=1b567df9-96b7-43fb-b9f2-c1f76709dce2%40sessionmgr120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=125823418&db=bth.0sessionmgr4008
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
• López, Gustavo, and Jens Manuel Krogstad. "Key facts about unauthorized immigrants enrolled in DACA." Pew Research Center. September 25, 2017. Accessed November 16, 2017. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/25/key-facts-about-unauthorized-immigrants-enrolled-in-daca/.

DACA Termination Results in Human Rights Violations Draft

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA was an immigration policy created by the Obama adminstration in June 2012. It was created to help immigrants who entered or the U.S. as minors illegally become eligible for a renewable two-year period of delayed deportation (deferred action) and a work permit. It is estimated that around 800,000 undocumented immigrants have been enrolled under DACA since its creation five years ago, and 690,000 of those people are currently enrolled as of September 4th, 2017. It was mainly created because DREAMer students rasied awareness that they were mostly raise in the U.S. and it was considered as a way to reduce attention from people who were not considered a threat to national security. To be eligible for enrollment, immigrants must have entered the country before their 16th birthday, but prior to June 2007, currently in school, a high school graduate or honorably discharged from the military, under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012, and not have been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or three other misdemeanors, or otherwise pose a threat to national security.

Termination of DACA

During his 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump promised followers that on "day one" he would repeal DACA in office. Trump kept his word and in September 2017, ordered an end to the Obama-era program and rushed Congress to find a replacement for the bill before he removes its protections for immigrants. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that the large amount of undocumented immigrants are illegally taking Americans jobs and causing a wage drop. It was also stated that DACA denied many Americans jobs by offering those same jobs to said illegal aliens. This created huge backlash throughout the country and governement, with Trump gaining disapprovement from his predecesor, Obama, and even Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Human Rights Violations

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Trump's decision to rescind DACA violates multiple basic human rights of the immigrants. In article 13, "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state". The end of DACA would cause the immigrants to have to be deported to countries they have never known in their lives, hince the name "Childhood Arrivals". Article 26 states "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit." This is also a clear violation as it deprives them from their free and equal chance at a fair education.

Reprecussions & Statistics

As of today there are 1,688,600 approved cases under DACA, with it being repealled all of the illegal immigrants will be under threat of deportation once their two year period of amnesty ends and cannot be renewed. "MPI estimates that as of 2016, 1.3 million young adults ages 15 and older were immediately eligible to apply for DACA. The number rises to 1.7 million when including an additional 398,000 unauthorized immigrants who met all criteria but for high school graduation or current school enrollment." According to an academic journal from Yale, there is an example of how some people will be affected when Trump finalizes the repeal of DACA. "Batalla Vidal’s family is no different. Batalla Vidal is 26 years old and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was seven years old. He works in a nursing home and rehabilitation center, and supports his mother financially. He is a member of Make the Road New York."

"Martin Batalla Vidal, plaintiff and member of Make the Road New York, said, “DACA has changed my life. It’s allowed me to pursue my dream of continuing my education and supporting my family, with the peace of mind that I won’t be separated from the people I love the most. Losing DACA would have a dramatic impact on my life. It would prevent me from being able to take on major professional or academic goals, make me unable to work legally, and put me at risk of being deported and separated from my family. This decision by Donald Trump is a direct attack on immigrant youth like me and on our families, and it’s based on one thing: the racist beliefs of a president who has been attacking Latinos and Mexicans since the first day of his campaign."

What To Expect

Current DACA recipients will get to keep their work permits and deferred action until they expire after the two-year period. Initial DACA applications and applications for employment that were sent in before the repeal will be processed, but no DACA requests received after September 5th will be accepted. Renewal applications and other related applications for employment that are pending will be processed also. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will also continue accepting renewal applications through October 5, 2017, for existing DACA recipients whose permits expire on March 5th, 2018 or earlier. DACA recipients can still apply to replace a valid EAD that has been lost, stolen, or destroyed . Unless Congress provides a solution, many members of the American workforce will lose their work permits over the next two and a half years. During that time, employers should should gibe said workers the same amount of respect and accept their unexpired work permit documents to complete or reverify an I-9 form. Employers should not single out or ask whether a specific employee is a DACA recipient, but can provide information about the end of the program to them.