{"id":733,"date":"2015-03-02T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2025-02-01T04:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:46:02","slug":"obamas-immigration-and-the-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/obamas-immigration-and-the-dreamers","title":{"rendered":"Obamas Immigration and the Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Obamas Immigration<\/h2>\n<p><strong>See below Obamas Immigration talk on MSNBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, there\u2019s going to be a President Rodriguez, or there\u2019s going to be a President Chen \u2026 The country is a nation of immigrants, and ultimately it will reflect who we are, and its politics will reflect who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An interesting interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Obama<\/a> about his views on the United States Immigration politics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mrwrsAC3OJk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s been the best part of a decade since Obama left the White House, part of his legacy lives on in the country\u2019s immigration law. Specifically, he signed in the DREAM Act, which profoundly impacted how children of immigrants accessed citizenship.<\/p>\n<h3>What are DACA and the DREAM Act?<\/h3>\n<p>DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It\u2019s an immigration policy that gives the children of unlawful immigrants renewable deferred action from deportation. The Act also grants them the right to work in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Obama signed the bill into law in 2012. Essentially, it\u2019s designed to give children greater rights in the US, as it works on the basis that they didn\u2019t choose to enter the US unlawfully. However, it\u2019s worth noting that it doesn\u2019t act as a pathway to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/us-green-card-vs-us-citizenship\">US citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DREAM Act, on the other hand, can. Dreamers are \u201calien minors\u201d \u2013 children of immigrants. It grants people conditional resident status, which can serve as a pathway to permanent residency. To obtain permanent residency, applicants must receive education in the US.<\/p>\n<p>But, the DREAM Act currently isn\u2019t signed into law. Therefore, unlike DACA, it\u2019s not legally binding. It\u2019s the second major difference between the two (along with the pathway to citizenship).<\/p>\n<h3>Dreamers Since the Obama Presidency<\/h3>\n<p>Since the Obama presidency, the Dreamers bill has been through a rough time. Trump essentially removed any proposals and also tried to reduce coverage of DACA. However, this bill also failed to pass, meaning nothing about either Act was changed.<\/p>\n<p>Then, President Biden proposed the Dream Act 2021. It follows many of the processes suggested in the Obama bill. It begins with conditional permanent residence, which provides working rights and protection from deportation. After this, Dreamers could apply for a Green Card. Then, after five years, they could apply for full citizenship as a normal Green Card holder.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was Vice President during the Obama administration and so had close ties to both DACA and the Dream Act. On his first day in office, he fully reinstated DACA.<\/p>\n<p>He would like to pass the Dream Act 2021, but it so far hasn\u2019t gone before the Senate. It passed the House of Representatives, although it\u2019s unlikely to go much further. Republicans have shot down each previous version of the Dreamers bill, which is unlikely to be any different.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, though, a version of the Dream Act 2021 will eventually be signed into law. Currently, thousands of Dreamers (children of migrants) live on temporary status, which is a worrying thing.<\/p>\n<h3>The Future of Obamas Immigration and the Dreamers<\/h3>\n<p>Currently, Dreamers can continue applying for DACA. Importantly, it gives them the right to work and protection from deportation. As it\u2019s already law, it\u2019s the closest to permanent legal rights they have. So, we can only hope this changes shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The Obamas Immigration and The United States are more into welcoming new Immigrants than ever before so act now and apply in the upcoming Green Card Program Today!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1882 size-full\" title=\"Obamas Immigration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/apply-now-us.gif\" alt=\"Obamas Immigration\" width=\"238\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obamas Immigration See below Obamas Immigration talk on MSNBC \u201cAt some point, there\u2019s going to be a President Rodriguez, or there\u2019s going to be a President Chen \u2026 The country is a nation of immigrants, and ultimately it will reflect who we are, and its politics will reflect who we are.\u201d An interesting interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,31,29,28],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-the-usa-en","tag-daca","tag-dream-act","tag-dreamers","tag-obamas-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usgreencardoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}