Zippyjuan
03-04-2018, 05:34 PM
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/14/17003484/daca-kuka-shenhav-shih
It also cut teen pregnancy.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.
That’s according to timely new research from Elira Kuka, Na’ama Shenhav, and Kevin Shih that uses the program to study a larger question that’s of interest to economists — when education becomes more available, do people go get more of it? The DACA results suggest that the answer is yes, at least when there’s a clear upside. The program itself, in other words, was a smashing success in terms of bringing people out of the shadows and letting them contribute more to American society.
Oscar Hernandez, a DACA recipient, explained to Vox’s Dara Lind how things changed.
”The discussion in my house was, ‘You don’t get noticed. Because if you do something awesome and great, you might get noticed, and if you do get noticed, they might find out that we’re here undocumented, and if they find we out we could get separated.’ It was never a discussion we had, but that was the unwritten rule for our house. You don’t do bad things, but you also don’t do good things. You stay under the radar, you work, and that’s it.”
DACA changed that. Suddenly, recipients got to experience what US citizens take for granted — that to excel is good.
Canceling DACA almost certainly won’t reduce the overall size of the unauthorized population living in the United States, but it will meaningfully reduce the educational attainment and economic productivity of the undocumented population. That’s bad for the DREAMers, but also America as a whole.
DACA and similar initiatives tend to draw political support from the sense that its recipients, having come to the United States as children, “did nothing wrong” in crossing the border illegally. They have unusually strong ties to what is, at the end of the day, the only country they’ve ever known.
But the economic logic here makes the case for a broader path to citizenship. There are millions of unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, and there will continue to be millions of them under any conceivable enforcement framework. Letting them obtain legal status will allow them to borrow and save, launch businesses, obtain educational credentials, and apply their job skills to maximum effect.
As Ron Paul said: http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Ron_Paul_Immigration.htm
Give illegals limbo status: a green card with an asterisk
Immigrants who can't be sent back due to the magnitude of the problem should not be given citizenship--no amnesty should be granted. Maybe a "green card" with an asterisk could be issued. This in-between status, keeping illegal immigrants in limbo, will be said that it will create a class of 2nd-class citizens. Yet it could be argued that it may well allow some immigrants who come here illegally a beneficial status without automatic citizenship--a much better option than deportation.
Source: Liberty Defined, by Rep. Ron Paul, p.156 , Apr 19, 2011
It also cut teen pregnancy.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.
That’s according to timely new research from Elira Kuka, Na’ama Shenhav, and Kevin Shih that uses the program to study a larger question that’s of interest to economists — when education becomes more available, do people go get more of it? The DACA results suggest that the answer is yes, at least when there’s a clear upside. The program itself, in other words, was a smashing success in terms of bringing people out of the shadows and letting them contribute more to American society.
Oscar Hernandez, a DACA recipient, explained to Vox’s Dara Lind how things changed.
”The discussion in my house was, ‘You don’t get noticed. Because if you do something awesome and great, you might get noticed, and if you do get noticed, they might find out that we’re here undocumented, and if they find we out we could get separated.’ It was never a discussion we had, but that was the unwritten rule for our house. You don’t do bad things, but you also don’t do good things. You stay under the radar, you work, and that’s it.”
DACA changed that. Suddenly, recipients got to experience what US citizens take for granted — that to excel is good.
Canceling DACA almost certainly won’t reduce the overall size of the unauthorized population living in the United States, but it will meaningfully reduce the educational attainment and economic productivity of the undocumented population. That’s bad for the DREAMers, but also America as a whole.
DACA and similar initiatives tend to draw political support from the sense that its recipients, having come to the United States as children, “did nothing wrong” in crossing the border illegally. They have unusually strong ties to what is, at the end of the day, the only country they’ve ever known.
But the economic logic here makes the case for a broader path to citizenship. There are millions of unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, and there will continue to be millions of them under any conceivable enforcement framework. Letting them obtain legal status will allow them to borrow and save, launch businesses, obtain educational credentials, and apply their job skills to maximum effect.
As Ron Paul said: http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Ron_Paul_Immigration.htm
Give illegals limbo status: a green card with an asterisk
Immigrants who can't be sent back due to the magnitude of the problem should not be given citizenship--no amnesty should be granted. Maybe a "green card" with an asterisk could be issued. This in-between status, keeping illegal immigrants in limbo, will be said that it will create a class of 2nd-class citizens. Yet it could be argued that it may well allow some immigrants who come here illegally a beneficial status without automatic citizenship--a much better option than deportation.
Source: Liberty Defined, by Rep. Ron Paul, p.156 , Apr 19, 2011