Global Citizens means exactly that, global citizen. We believe that no matter where a person comes from and no matter their creed, race, sex, age, gender we are all citizens of this planet we call home. The voices of this blog are Evellin, Husain, and Melisa. Evellin: I am a 20 year old first generation Mexican American. Having Latin roots is a quality I possess and present with pride. My parents immigrated to the United States before having two daughters. Everything my sister and I do is to show our parents that their sacrifice was not in vain and we are forever grateful to them. Husain: I am an international student from India who is married to a beautiful woman from Mexico. It can't get more global for us as this truly is an Indo-Pacific relationship. We are both immigrants and so, immigration and its openness is valued in a very high regard in our families. Melissa: I’m Melisa Sanchez. I was born in Mexico and I’m 21 years of age. I’m a DAC...
On June 15,2012 many non-citizens got an opportunity for a future life with benefits in the U.S. Under Barack Obama’s administration the DACA program was created. This program mostly was helping does who came to America as a child with no mindset of what was happening when they were brought over. It gave them a chance to keep their education going and have a better job. As many as 800,000 recipients had the opportunity to take advantage of it. Dreamers increased the economy throughout the states across all sectors of it where most immigrants are living. Now to this opportunity given to them it gave a chance for people to have their own home, buy cars, and have businesses. This gave an increase in sales and taxes it benefits more than we can imagine. Through this process the “Dreamers” became financially independent and to have stability. Out of the economy being good because of the results of DACA other recipients are not working they are in school studying for their actual care...