Affirmative: Americans are Americans are Americans

DACA Dreamers belong in the United States. Dreamers work and attend college, paying required taxes that amount to an estimated 2 billion dollars in state and local taxes per year. Sending any Dreamer back to a country they are, many times, not familiar with is unfair and even dangerous. Many DACA recipients are in the U.S. for economic mobility, education, and the promise of a better quality of life. They are looking for a life of freedom in the United States and the liberty to pursue the happiness that the U.S. says that it wants to supply for any member of the world who wants to make a life in this great country. Many parents who bring their children here are escaping countries flooded with violence. Countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and Columbia all have historically high violent crime rates. Therefore, we would be sending these families and young people to high-risk environments without any assistance, financially or otherwise. The children brought to the U.S., along with their parents, frankly, did not have a choice in the matter. Therefore, being raised and assimilated in American culture, they have every right to stay in the country they were brought up in. Parents who immigrate to the United States usually do not already obtain financial support or sometimes family ties in the country, going with the hope of the American dream. Entry into the United States is the one means for many families to make a better life for themselves and their family here, in the United States, and in their country of origin. Not only do DACA Dreamers bring in revenue to the United States; they also actualize the fact that the United States was built on immigrants and that it prospered and advanced throughout history because of the help of immigrants from all around the world. Therefore, DACA Dreamers belong in the United States.