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on why we should celebrate revival of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) but continue seeing it as an insufficient & unjust program that serves to keep immigrant vulnerable & without full rights to citizenship. 1/N https://twitter.com/camiloreports/status/1334986234515628038
DACA is temporary, renewable work permit program available to undoc youth who enter US <16 yrs, graduaed HS or GED, no crim record. The benefits of DACA are many. It improves the mental health of recipients & family. 2/N https://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6355/1041
DACA has helped youth obtain better jobs, build credit, open bank accounts, obtain driver's licenses feel more socially integrated. 3/N https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/two-years-and-counting-assessing-growing-power-daca#.X8sNTQD6yUg.twitter
Pregnant women who were lucky to meet eligibility for DACA had better birth outcomes than those who were ineligible. What does this really highlight: the benefits of DACA or cruelty of regime that punishes children at birth for being unluck? 4/N https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4nqf3/
"DACA is peanuts" according to one youth @sofyaaptekar & I interviewed & he is right. By offering no path to citizenship, DACA "beneficiaries are given the hope of social inclusion without the possibility of fully attaining it." 5/N https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1540790
DACA causes many recipients to drop out of college bc it incentivizes work over schooling. Recipients may be the only person in family who can legally work which puts even more pressure on them to do so. 6/N https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-018-0691-6?shared-article-renderer
What do you thinks happens to DACA recipients seeking professional careers when employers find out their ability to work is limited & subject to political whims of administration? We are finding stunted careers & job loss. 7/N
Despite hardening of racist & xenophobic rhetoric, public support for pathways to citizenship remains extremely high. Advocates are right to celebtate this victory but let's not stop here. N/N https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/
