Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
C. Duffy
J. McLaughlin
H. Yarborough
After this presentation, you will be able to:
● Plyler v. Doe (1982)- guarantees undocumented students the right to k-12 public
education in the US
● The earliest DREAM Act was proposed in 2001
● Latest version has been proposed and failed in the Senate every year from 2009-
2012 despite bipartisan support
● Obama signed DACA into executive action in 2012
● Trump has given Congress 6 months to come up with a permanent resolution to
DACA
(Sahay, Thatcher, Nunez, & Lightfoot, 2016)
What is DACA?
● Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) policy enacted by the Obama
Administration on June 15, 2012.
● Allows for certain undocumented
individuals to be eligible to have their
deportation delayed and to have a
valid work permit.
● NOT a path to citizenship.
● NOT permanent residency.
● 19 year old, male, DACA recipient, and recent high school graduate
“Even after the hard work, the countless nights staying up and writing, reading, studying, and
multiplying, I find the doors of higher education closed to me because I don’t have residency status
and am not eligible for federal aid. The state pays for my primary education, but all of that goes to
waste after 12th grade. It’s a waste of your tax money to only educate me up to a high school level. It’s
a waste of my time to pore over books and worksheets for years and not be able to attend the college I
want to go to because I can’t pay for it because I was not born here.” (Sahay, Thatcher, Nunez, &
Lightfoot, 2016, p. 46)
Undocumented Immigrant
● An undocumented immigrant is a person who is from another country that
lives in the U.S. without lawful status granted by federal authorities.
•Escape poverty
•Wars
● The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996.
● The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA).
● Federal policies restrict undocumented students from accessing most financial aid
resources.
Group Activity
Purpose: To review your perceptions about the undocumented and to “step into their shoes”
● Deportation reprieve
•Fear of Deportation (Self* or family members)
•Not eligible for federal financial aid programs and ● Work permit
Department of Homeland Security (n.d.). Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Retrieved from
https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca.
Ruge, T. R., and Iza, A. D. “Higher education for undocumented students: the case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for
students without lawful immigration status.” Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, 2005, 15, 257–278.
Sahay, K.M. Thatcher ,K., C.,Nunez, & A. Lightfoot. (2016). “It’s Like We Are Legally, Illegal”: Latino/a Youth Emphasize Barriers to
Higher Education Using Photovoice. The High School Journal. P.45-65.
Schneiderman, E. (2017). Trump’s phaseout of DACA is facing legal challenges. Retrieved on November 23, 2017, form
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-daca-legal-20170905-story.html
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Immigration and Nationality Act. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, 2008. Retrieved Mar. 15, 2009, from http://www.uscis.gov/propub/ProPubVAP.jsp?dockey=c9fef57852dc066cfe16a
4cb816838a4.
U.S. Legal. (n.d). Undocumented immigrant law and legal definition. Retrieved on November 22, 2017, from
https://definitions.uslegal.com/i/illegal-immigrant/
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Trump-Will-End-DACA-in-6/241090
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/04/politics/daca-dreamers-immigration-program/index.html