CCMUN 2018

United States Presidential

Welcome departments to CCMUN 2018. All the Global Awareness Debate Club
staff has been working hard on the preparation of this debate and we hope you enjoy
it. This cabinet is in charge of the security, economy and development of the United
States of America. The topic we chose for your department is very important, and in
this simulation you need to work in team with Mexico to get into an agreement that is
beneficial to both countries. In this two days ​you should think and act as the
president of the United States “Donald Trump”. ​So we hope you enjoy debating
and being part of the United States Presidential Cabinet.

l.-Committee background

The United States Presidential Cabinet “USPC” is part of the executive branch of the
U.S. government that normally acts as an advisory body to the President of the
United States. It is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive
branch of the U.S. government serving under the President. Members of the Cabinet
(except for the Vice President) serve at the pleasure of the President, who can
dismiss them at will for no cause. All federal public officials, including Cabinet
members, are also subject to impeachment by the House of Representatives and
trial in the Senate for "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors".
The President can also unilaterally designate senior White House staffers, heads of
other federal agencies and the Ambassador to the United Nations as members of the
Cabinet, although this is a symbolic status marker and does not, apart from attending
Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments,
listed below according to their order of succession to the Presidency. These 15
positions are the core "cabinet member" seats, as distinct from other Cabinet-level
seats for other various top level White House staffers and heads of other
government agencies, none of whom are in the presidential line of succession and
not all of whom are Officers of the United States.

*​(In Congress or a state legislature) the presentation of formal charges against a public
official by the lower house, trial to be before the upper house. Accusation against a
member of the government.
Departments:
1. Department of State
2. Department of the Treasury
3. Department of Defense
4. Attorney General
5. Department of the Interior
6. Department of Agriculture
7. Department of Commerce
8. Department of Labor
9. Department of Health and Human Services
10. Department of Housing and Urban Development
11. Department of Transportation
12. Department of Energy
13. Department of Education
14. Department of Veterans Affairs
15. Department of Homeland Security
16. Trade Representative
17. Director of National Intelligence
18. Ambassador to the United Nations
19. Office of Management and Budget
20. Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
21. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
22. Administrator of the Small Business Administration

Topic: The rupture of DACA

● Introduction:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a kind of administrative relief from
deportation and was implemented 15th of June, 2012 by the former president of the
U.S Barack Obama. The purpose of DACA is to protect eligible immigrant youth who
came to the United States when they were children from deportation. DACA gives
young undocumented immigrants: 1) protection from deportation, and 2) a work
permit. The program expires after two years, subject to renewal. Donald Trump
wants to cancel DACA and deport all immigrants to Mexico or from wherever they’re
from.
Donald Trump said that the DACA program for "dreamers" is "probably dead",
blaming the Democratic opposition, which must agree with the ruling party before
March 5 of 2018 a bill to give beneficiaries an option to stay in the country. For the
US president, Democratic congressmen "really do not want to" maintain the system,
since "they just want to talk and get money from the military, which is desperately
needed."

● Background/history:
The program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), proclaimed by former
President Barack Obama in 2012, has benefited exactly 787,580 undocumented
youth, according to the latest data from the Citizenship and Immigration Service. To
gain access, these young people had to prove that they had arrived in the US before
the age of 16, that they had no criminal record and that they were pursuing
secondary education or university studies.
Trump has been pressured to end DACA by a group of attorneys general who say
the action created by the executive order that started the program in 2012 is illegal.
United states has improved their economy because of the DACA program.

● Current situation:

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday 6, April 2018 a new policy
aimed at undocumented immigration along a stretch of the US-Mexico border, one of
the most trafficked by Central America in the last four years to reach country in
search of asylum. However, this order does not include measures to execute it.

Trump has used the march of immigrants to boost its immigration policy that aims to
build a wall along the border with Mexico, deport the 11 million undocumented and
reduce legal immigration to half in a period of 10 years , among other policies.
The situation on our southwestern border is unacceptable, Congress has not passed
effective legislation that serves the national interest, closes the dangerous loopholes
and fully funds a wall along our southern border.

The decision of the US president, Donald Trump, to end the migration program for
so-called "dreamers" will cause losses up to 460.300 million dollars (about 386.739
million euros) in the next decade and will affect thousands of Mexicans , nationality
of three quarters of the beneficiaries.
With this already stated your goal is to find how to close DACA without affecting
negatively our country.
 ● Focus questions: ​Remember, your department is on behalf of
President Donald Trump’s ideas.
1. How would your solutions work so the DACA rupture don't affect
as much both countries?
2. How is United States being affected with this problem?
3. What is your point of view of this problem?
4. How does your department would return every dreamer back to
Mexico?
5. In which way does this problem affect your department?

● Helpful links:
Resources:
1. https://undocu.berkeley.edu/legal-support-overview/what-is-daca/#
2. https://www.cato.org/blog/what-will-happen-trump-kills-daca-timelin
e-expiration​ajc
3. https://www..com/news/national/what-daca-and-why-does-donald-t
rump-want-end/anx7Tw3cSDzcNeaXZ9IeDO/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/05/
mexican-government-criticizes-trumps-decision-to-end-daca-progr
am/?utm_term=.a186d2a6fc2a
Videos:
1. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJCyApAugdY
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMw2VFz6Jk