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?
Dreamers they were rightly called since that is what they essentially are. They can only be compared to the great men of the past who coined the American Dream like Martin Luther King. It is not too much for them to be accorded full nationality and be allowed to continue with their lives without fear of intimidation. As long as one is abiding by the law, mistreatment is uncalled for.
What the president and his government did was therefore noble and deserves accolades. Nevertheless, it is just the beginning considering that these people are still under tight regulations. They do not enjoy full rights like other members of the populace. Instead, they have to renew their status every two years. Where is the security in this? What if this regime gets out of power and the next one decides to chase them. Do their dreams go to the gutters?
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.
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?
Dreamers they were rightly called since that is what they essentially are. They can only be compared to the great men of the past who coined the American Dream like Martin Luther King. It is not too much for them to be accorded full nationality and be allowed to continue with their lives without fear of intimidation. As long as one is abiding by the law, mistreatment is uncalled for.
What the president and his government did was therefore noble and deserves accolades. Nevertheless, it is just the beginning considering that these people are still under tight regulations. They do not enjoy full rights like other members of the populace. Instead, they have to renew their status every two years. Where is the security in this? What if this regime gets out of power and the next one decides to chase them. Do their dreams go to the gutters?
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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