The Rough Draft of my HCP shows how I usually write. I like to put all my information down and then cite the author later. I find this more efficient instead of citing right away because I tend to let my writing flow. I also knew that my paper was lacking so I would add comments in the end of my paper or in between to remind myself to go back and fix any errors or add more. 

Brenda Ramos

Writing 39C

Christopher J. Varela

HCP Rough Draft

DACA

            In elementary school, you’re told to do well in school so that you have a promising future. Questions of “what do you want to be when you grow up?” are asked often and teachers will guide you in the right track. In junior high, you’re told to start thinking about your future, look up colleges of where you want to go and to do continue on doing well in school to strive on having a promising future. In high school, you’re told to start narrowing down which route you want to take, which college to go to, and to continue doing great in school in order to go through the higher education route. Schools are a promising and safe future for every child to hold onto, and teachers encourage their students to excel in school in order to do well. Yet, this cookie cutter image isn’t what we see. Not all students do well, and not all students go to college. But for some students, it isn’t their character that holds them back, their grades, or their lack of commitment shown towards schools. It’s a social problem that incorporates a political and cultural deficit point of view where some students shouldn’t be allowed to excel in the school system due to their citizenship status. Where one intelligent student is denied the chance to succeed in a school, where they are denied the right to attend higher education, because they weren’t born here. Undocumented students, or those are under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are faced with the social injustices held by our schools and society. In order for our education system to promote a progressive and diversive environment, the U.S. needs to support undocumented students instead of disabling them from excelling in school.

What is DACA? (Define)

            DACA was initiated in 2012 under the Obama administration. This program gave “qualified undocumented young people access to relief from deportation, renewable work permits, and temporary Social Security numbers. This policy opened up access to new jobs, higher earnings, driver’s licenses, health care, and banking. CITE DACAMENTED” In order to qualify, an individual must have arrived to the United States under the age 16 and must have been under 31 years old when the program first began, lived in the U.S. for at least five years, and must be attending or completed high school in order to receive a diploma or a GED.  “DACA is reducing some of the challenges undocumented young adults must overcome to achieve economic and social incorporation CITE”  “a lack of legal status presents a formidable impediment to assimilation for undocumented youth” “Most young adults in the United States aspire to some type of postsecondary education. However, those who are undocumented must overcome multiple challenges to enroll in and persist in college. CITE”

Challenges Faced by DACA (Justify/Frame Problem)

One of their biggest fears is being deported. For some DACA individuals, they were here for the most part of their whole life. This is all they have ever known that there is a possibility that some students don’t know that they’re undocumented until they reach high school. Undocumented students will see that  “A police state with more private prisons, more detentions, more deportations and palpable fear.” “The article shows that despite some analysts’ claims that Trump may have gone soft on his border wall plan, the memo clearly showed that the Trump transition team is still focused on satisfying the promise of a “big beautiful wall. CITE NEWSPAPER PERSUAD” In school, undocumented students are faced with racial prejudices by their peers and teachers.  “Since its inception over a century ago, the public school system has been intricately involved in the cycle that oppresses certain groups of students while advancing other groups, specifically the dominant group. CITE ARMENDARIZ” These children, especially those who identify as Mexican Americans are going through school differently than those who are part of the majority race. In the school system, Mexicans are the minorities not because of their numbers, but because of the power that they have in the United States. White students have more power than other minority groups because they claim and oppress the others by ruling the school system. It is not the student’s fault, but rather the school’s as the education system maintains an Anglo-Saxon stratification. Minority students, let alone, undocumented students never had a chance to succeed. The education system is only equal to those it lets it be equal to.

Historical Contexts of Problem

            This isn’t the first time Latinos had to fight the education system. Youth students wanted educational reform due to the oppression held by the school staff.  “White society has failed to help the Chicano in the school system by executing an ‘English only’ approach towards Chicanos and not recognizing their needs as bicultural students. CITE SARABIA/PRICE” There are some instances where students would get beaten up if they were heard by a teacher talking a different language.  “Instead of getting help in school for his language barrier, his teacher has given up on him as a ‘‘culturally deprived’’ child. CITE” This instance shows that teachers are more willing to put the blame on the child rather on themselves. Their current point of view is of a cultural deficit, but it should be on a school deficit because teachers and the administration aren’t taking the time to help out students who are in more need. Realizing that they were being oppressed, student took it into their own hands as they initiated the East Los Angeles Walkouts . High school students were tired of the inferior schooling they were receiving and in 1968, they moved out. The media still had portrayed them as dirty, ignorant troublemakers. (CITE ALANIS.)

            Just like how they were portrayed in 1968, undocumented students are portrayed the exact same way by our new president. Donald Trump campaign has generalized Mexicans to be criminals and rapists. He has already taken action on immigration reforms such as preventing muslim immigrants from entering the United States.

How to make Paper Better: 2 more citations.. Make it flow better.. More detail on historical context.. Remember to tie it with my thesis.

I still need to add more historical context here!! Have to find more resources as academic search complete didn't let me use some of their articles.