Saturday 12 April 2014

Why Deferred Action For Dreamers Was Just A Drop In The Ocean

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By Anita Ortega


On the fifteenth of August the year twenty thirteen, President Obama gave an announcement on a thorny issue. The American immigration department was in a verge of deporting all the immigrants who were brought into America when they were young. This was in a move to clean the nation by getting rid of non citizens. However, the declaration of the president that deferred action for dreamers came as a sigh of relief.

It is the dream of virtually every individual to be in the United States, if not to stay, study or work, then to just visit. As a precautionary measure, the lawmakers had decided to wipe out non citizens in a bid to fight crime. However, they were taking this too far and the president rightly intervened. One does not get victimized before they commit any crime. Innocent people were almost sacrificed on the altar of proactive action.

Just take a picture of a woman who visits a foreign land with her little daughter who is less than a year old. This woman then dies in the new land leaving the daughter under the care of friends. There are no papers to confirm the nationality of the girl. She is of good morals and performs exceptionally well in school.

The girl is eventually admitted to an esteemed university. She manages to get a first class degree. All along, she has always believed that this is her motherland. She then applies for a job and luckily gets employed in a top ranking company where her income is satisfactory. All these credits have come her way since she has always been a law abiding citizen. Is it really fair for such a person to be deported?

They were rightly called dreamers because they really are, and it is only prudent if they are assisted to achieve their desires. Their hope is to develop their careers in the US, their homeland. That is the nation whose language, culture and policies they understand. It does not come to their imagination that one day someone will arise to send them away.

His Excellency was thus right to declare affirmative action for them. Nevertheless, this was just a preliminary step. The next step, which is more crucial, should be to accept the dreamers fully as Americans. The renewal of their status every two years has to be a thing of the past. To put things plainly, it is unfair to treat a human being as if they are being favored when they clearly have nowhere else to go. Only future immigrations of the same nature can be managed to avoid a repeat of this same scenario.

They might have come from various corners of the globe but they have one thing in common; they share the American dream; that of making this wonderful nation the best in the world. America can only pay them back by according them the treatment they deserve. They need to be considered as legal Americans without any conditions.

At times a number of them do break the law. They should not be made as a justification to purge the rest who are innocent. Man is to error and an errant man should be left to carry his cross alone. Otherwise, if every law breaker was to be chased away then there would be a world crisis. America should therefore offer exemplary leadership by safeguarding human rights.




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