2017 ABA Law Student Division Best Newspaper Award-Winner VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY Wednesday, 13 September 2017 The Newspaper of the University of Virginia School of Law Since 1948 Volume 70, Number 3 DACA: A around north Perspective grounds Robbie Pomeroy ‘19 (he/him/his) DACA Repeal: Thumbs up to Guest Columnist Floridians helping each other face I am deeply saddened by the Hurricane Irma. decision to end the Deferred While ANG wishes that we Action for Childhood Arrivals What Comes Now? didn’t need a natural disas- (DACA) program. Eliminating ter to come together, ANG this protection affects thousands loves seeing Floridians be- of individuals of different colors, ing #irmastrong. creeds and countries of origin living in the United States. The Thumbs down xenophobia of this administra- to the Law School tion are going to ruin lives and administration tear apart families. forcing ANG to Legal and policy reasons aside, repeat Civ Pro yet again. this decision is distasteful on the The Law School’s tyranni- most basic human level. Many cal insistence that ANG be of the people I know who were able to recite and apply this DACA recipients know no other archaic code has prevented country. Their only language is ANG from graduating for English. They go to school and too long. Three generations have friends and family in the of imbeciles are enough! States. They have dreams and Wait . aspirations as big and bold as the ones each of us have here at UVa. Thumbs side- They are your neighbors and ways to schedul- your classmates. They are just as ing the Concert American as you and I. This ad- for Charlottesville ministration is creating dividing for the same day as Fox- lines where none should exist. field. Sure, ANG is double- The only difference between a booked, but ANG will be DACA recipient and me is the fact moving Side to Side while that they were born in a differ- the 1Ls are still cleaning up Photo courtesy of Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress ent country. They were brought at Foxfield. 4 to this country when they were Julie Dostal ‘19 gram, which was to protect pursuing advanced degrees. too young to have a choice in the (she/her/hers) from deportation eligible im- After the implementation Thumbs down to matter. Many of them had no Features Editor migrant youths who came to of DACA in 2012, academics the new It movie. idea what it even meant to have the United States when they began to monitor its effects. If ANG wanted to papers or not. Growing up, they DACA, the acronym for were children. A DACA ben- Many found the immigration be terrified, ANG were just like any other person Deferred Action for Child- eficiary’s status was renew- policy directly translated into would ask what was living in school. The people affected by hood Arrivals, is a program able every two years based positive outputs in the educa- under the floorboards in this decision are human beings created by the Obama admin- on information supplied and tion and employment sectors. WB (answer: snakes). who are American at their core. istration in 2012. The immi- recorded by U.S. Citizenship Research conducted by Ro- We also should not blame gration policy allows young and Immigration Services. berto Gonzales, a professor at Thumbs up to the parents of childhood im- people unwittingly brought This same information may Harvard’s Graduate School of the fact that Hill- migrants to this country. The across the border without now be used by the United Education, focused on the fac- ary Clinton and reasons people choose to relo- documentation by others to States Justice Department to tors that promote and impede Bernie Sanders cate their families to the United receive a temporary reprieve deport unprotected recipients educational progress for im- are back in the public eye States are abundant. In my ex- from deportation and per- beginning in 2018. migrants and Latino students. with their new books, it re- perience, the reason has almost mission to work, study, and Following its implemen- Gonzales noted that DACA ally helps hide the fact that always been for the opportunity obtain a driver’s license. In- tation, DACA provided relief has provided a “tremendous Steven Glendon stole the to pursue the American Dream. dividuals could only receive from deportation and granted boost” to its recipients, help- 2016 election. Parents do anything for their protections from DACA after work permits to unauthorized ing them contribute to their children, and I do not fault any- meeting a series of require- immigrants than any other families, communities, and Thumbs side- one for making the decision to ments. Applicants need to immigration policy since the the U.S. economy.5 DACA ways to Princess immigrate to the United States have been younger than 31 1986 Immigration Reform had large effects on eligible Kate’s new preg- as an undocumented person. It years of age at the date of pro- and Control Act.2 There individuals’ labor market out- nancy. While is a deeply personal decision and gram implementation. Appli- are approximately 800,000 comes, and there is evidence ANG’s chances a tough one. You have to leave cants must prove they have DACA recipients now living in that suggests it altered re- of being adopted keeps de- everything behind, potentially lived in the U.S. continuously the U.S.3 Since 2015, the vast cipients’ education decisions. creasing, ANG’s chances risking your life, to overcome the since June 15, 2007 and that majority (81.3%) of DACA ap- Many respondents to Gonza- of marrying into the royal barriers (both physical and oth- they had arrived in the U.S. plications have been renew- les’ research study reported family keep increasing. erwise) of getting into the coun- before the age of 16. Further, als. Most DACA beneficiaries that DACA led them to enroll try. And once you make it to the applicants must show they arrived from Mexico (78.5), in community college or in Thumbs up to U.S., the barriers to becoming a have clean criminal records; El Salvador (3.6%), Guate- job-training programs spon- softball starting! part of society are still there. It’s they must not have been mala (2.5%), and Honduras sored by community based ANG has already not a path for the faint of heart, convicted of a felony, certain (2.3%). They live primarily organizations. Education has joined five teams… and I respect those who make significant misdemeanors in California, Texas, and Illi- been and remains a key bar- but like ANG’s teammates, the decision for the betterment (including a single DUI), or nois. The average recipient of rier for undocumented immi- ANG will stop showing up of their families. three or more misdemeanors DACA protections is 22 years grant children, with 40% fail- to games as soon as they My mother was born in Gua- of any kind.1 Beneficiaries of old and employed. The major- pass out jerseys. dalajara, Mexico. When she im- the program must also all be ity are students and 17% are migrated to the United States enrolled or have completed 4 Wong, Tom K., “Results Thumbs down with my uncle and grandmother high school, a GED program, of Tom K. Wong, National to the Rod and as a young child, it was as an un- or college, or serve in the mil- 2 Baker, S. “Effect of the Immigration Law Center, Gun club for go- documented immigrant. Even- itary. These administrative 1986 Immigration Reform and Center for American ing on a dove tually she became a naturalized requirements help to narrow and Control Act on Crime,” Progress National Survey,” hunt. Seriously? Shoot- citizen, but she went to school eligible recipients to individu- Stanford Law and Econom- (Washington: National Im- ing the symbol of peace in for several years in California als most likely to further the ics Olin Working Paper No. migration Law Center and these tumultuous times? If without documentation. My declared purpose of the pro- 412 (2014). Center for American Prog- you must shoot something grandmother had a tax-paying ress, June 2015), https://cdn. shoot the snakes in WB job at a phone company and my 1 Stern, Mark J. “The 3 U.S. Citizenship and Im- americanprogress.org/wp- (Please don’t, guns are not mother and uncle went to school Slow Death of DACA Will Be migration Services, https:// content/uploads/2015/07/ allowed on grounds). just like anyone else. Obviously, a Rolling Catastrophe that www.uscis.gov/sites/de- DACA-Wong_NILC_CAP- this was all decades before DACA Trump Can’t Escape,” http:// fault/files/USCIS/Resourc- Codebook-PDF.pdf. Our hearts go was ever even contemplated, but www.slate.com/blogs/ es/Reports%20and%20 out to the victims imagining these circumstances the_slatest/2017/09/06/ Studies/Immigration%20 on 9/11 and their under the present climate in rolling_daca_cancellations_ Forms%20Data/All%20 5 Stern, “The Slow Death families. We will America, I begin to wonder what will_dog_the_trump_ad- Form%20Types/DACA/ of DACA…,” Slate, 09.2017. never forget. would have made my mother so ministration.html Slate, daca_performancedata_ DACA page 5 PERSPECTIVE page 3 09.2017. fy2017_qtr2.pdf 2 Wolf of Wall Street VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY Wednesday, 13 September 2017 Is DACA Constitutional? Is DACA Constitutional? depth treatment in other summed up by a statement That decision, should it be of Law, writing for the Sacra- When President Don- sections of this newspaper, of one of their own, Attorney made, is Congress’s alone.