SCOTUS - immigration reform Flashcards
how many unauthorised immigrants are in the USA?
11 million unauthorised immigrants.
DREAM
what does it stand for and what does it do?
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act is a legislative proposal to grant temporary residence, with the right to work, to undocumented immigrants who entered the US as minors, and if they later satisfy further qualifications, they will attain a PR.
path to citizenship.
younger than 16, no criminal charges, and proof of residency for at least five consecutive years.
the children were known as ‘dreamers’
this was ended by Trump.
DREAM
has it been approved by Congress?
April 2001 - US Senators Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch introduced multiple times in Congress but it has never been approved by any majorities in either houses of Congress.
DACA
what does it stand for and what does it do?
this was an exec order to the Immigration and Naturalisation Service - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 2012.
if you were brought to America before the age of 16 and you’ve lived in America continuously since 2007.
DACA
Trump’s relationship with DACA
2016 election - Trump announced his intention to end DACA, making the deportation of all illegal immigrants a top priority, and build a wall along the USA-Mexico border.
2018 - his intention to carry out ending DACA programme was a contributory factor in the short-term as to why the parts of the federal government was shutdown.
by 2020, he succeeded in closing DACA and building a small section of the border wall.
DACA
some success?
it did allow 1.5 million people brought into the country illegally as children continue to live and work in the USA.
success - 2008 Obama
Obama elected! He said that ‘(he) can guarantee that we will have, in the first year, an immigration bill that I strongly support’. Hispanics were a key part of Obama’s 2008 victory – 67% of the Hispanic votes went to him.
success - 2009 DREAM
DREAM Act reintroduced into Congress. This is the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act.
success - 2010 SoU
SoU Address looks to ‘fixing our nation’s broken immigration system’
failure - 2011 DREAM
DREAM Act reintroduced three times in 2011 and failed three times.
failure - 2012 SCOTUS
SCOTUS strikes down parts of SB1070 (if you don’t carry your immigration stuff at all times, then it’s misdemeanour) but allow Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ part. They uphold the federal government supremacy on immigration.
failure - 2013 G4
‘Gang of 8’ (senators) author a bipartisan immigration reform bill. It passed the Senate, but House Speaker John Boehner refused to hear it on the floor of the House.
failure - 2015 DAPA
US District Court places an injunction on DAPA. An injunction: a Court order prohibiting a person from taking a particular action (a prohibitory injunction) or requiring them to take a particular action (a mandatory injunction)
failure - 2016 Texas v US
Texas v US strikes down DAPA.
failure - 2016 Trump
Trump elected having campaigned heavily on anti-immigration policies, including ‘build a wall’
