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The truly irritating part of the DREAM act is that it is *half* reasonable.

That is, there are an increasing number of young adults who are technically illegal aliens, but who were raised in the US since infancy. They have no connections to Mexico, they are fully integrated into the US culture, and they speak English fluently, having graduated from elementary and high school, and often college.

If they are given a piece of paper, they are as deserving, or even more deserving, that a large percent of Americans who just happened to be born here. They will be good citizens, pay taxes, work and create jobs for others, etc.

To pitch them back into Mexico would be downright insane and sadistic, as would be taking any other US citizen and forcing them to go to Mexico. They are not Mexicans, they are Americans. It is not their fault, and only a person who is either racist or sick in the head thinks otherwise.

HOWEVER, in about the same proportion as for whites, there is a percentage of them who are serious criminals. There should be absolutely no chance for them to get US citizenship, and they should be deported when captured as soon as it is determined that they don’t have any outstanding criminal warrants for which they need to go to prison.

Nobody in the federal government seems to be intellectually capable of distinguishing between these two groups!

The former group are already integrated, and ready to be good citizens. The latter group we don’t want, at all, no way, no how.

So even before a much different DREAM act is ever passed, and if well rewritten by the Republicans, it might be, the priority, A number 1, should be to expel as many of the bad illegal aliens as possible.

If they are being held on misdemeanor charges, they should be put on a bus and shipped out. If it is felony charges, the day they complete their sentence. If they have prior convictions, known gang affiliation, etc., out with them—FIRST, before even considering any variety of a DREAM act.

You get more of what you reward. What you propose is to reward people who brought their children here illegally. Once their children are legal, they can apply to legalize their parents -- another reward for illegal behavior. Despite their current illegal status, the DREAM Act would give them the immediate legal right to sponsor their parents, as well as EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS.

Additionally, they will be able to petition for their adult siblings living abroad to immigrate to the U.S., When an adult brother or sister receives a green card, the family (spouse and children) of that adult sibling receives green cards as well.

It is unending.

In a situation like this, someone is going to pay a price, and IT SHOULD NOT BE US CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS. I am sure you think you are a kind, generous and thoughtful person, but I find it difficult to see any justification for what you are advocating. You have taken sides against your fellow Americans and those who have obeyed our laws.