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DACA Recipients Are, Firstly, Human Beings

Sure, immigrants help the economy, but that's not the important part.

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DACA Recipients Are, Firstly, Human Beings
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The United States can be a great country. I say can because there are many different options in which the nation can improve on. And when I say many, I mean a lot.

I say this because of the Trump’s administration recent act to pull DACA. DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This executive action allows undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as kids to have work permits and have a higher education. DACA does nothing but good for people and the United States. I do not understand at all why anyone would want to pull something away that can only help other people. As someone who was born to immigrants, I fully and 100% support DACA.

I’m not going to go into how or why immigrants and DACA is good for the economy or this country. Because in reality, that should not matter at all. It doesn’t matter that immigrants - undocumented or documented - are the backbone of the economy. It doesn’t matter that immigrants support this country with many small businesses or that they pay twelve billion dollars in taxes. It doesn’t matter that this country was “built on immigrants” (which is a total lie because this country was built on genocide and slavery done by conquerors).

What does matter is the fact that any DACA recipient is a human being. Undocumented immigrants are not a tool for the economy, and they are not just in the United States to do the jobs that nobody else wants. They are not just doctors, computer scientists, and entrepreneurs; but undocumented immigrants are also garbage collectors, landscapers, and janitors. Whatever job they have, or even the fact that they don’t have a job, they are a person. They don’t have to be a straight A student either who gets into the top school in the nation; an undocumented immigrant can also be a straight C student. Whatever the case may be, any undocumented immigrant is still a person. They are a living person with feelings, emotions, a soul, and mind. Every person deserves basic human rights, even an undocumented immigrant.

(Even though borders are man-made. This land was stolen from Natives. The white people who stole it drew borders that made indigenous people of this land “immigrants” and “illegals”. All immigration laws are man-made and fake, too. But that’s a conversation for another day.)

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