Posted on 03/27/2009 9:17:14 AM PDT by La Lydia
Congressmen Howard Berman (D-CA) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), announced the reintroduction today of the DREAM Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation will restore the States’ rights to determine residency requirements for higher education benefits - giving states the option to provide in-state tuition. The American DREAM Act seeks to facilitate access to postsecondary educational opportunities for immigrant students...who currently face barriers in pursuing a college education. It also provides a path to U.S. legal residency for students, and military personnel.
Pero I have also been critical of the legislation for it’s inclusion of a military path to citizenship which encourages young people of color to join the military when already, documented or not, young people of color are targeted as the canon fodder of the U.S. military industrial complex. Perhaps even more disturbing is how laws such as the DREAM Act promote a narrative of good vs bad immigrants, the deserving vs. the undeserving.
That said I am in a privileged position to even be able to look at it from that perspective. I am a born U.S. citizen and I need to acknowledge how that position colors how I view the DREAM Act and other such legislation. There are ways that we can support the DREAM Act, so that por lo menos some movement is made on the immigration rights front and who knows, quizas pave the way for even greater changes in the current immigration system.....
ive Ways we can support the DREAM Act and the dreams of many undocumented students.
1. CALL - The National Council of La Raza has a page to help you call your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
2. FAX - America’s Voice has a page to help you fax your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
3. EMAIL - Change.org has a page to help you email your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
4. PETITION - Dreamactivist.org has the official petition in support of the DREAM Act.
5. TEXT - Text “Justice” (”Justicia” for Spanish) to 69866 to be the first to know when the DREAM Act is introduced. FIRM’s Mobile Action Network is an excellent way to stay connected and have maximum impact at just the right moment.
Well, if it’s got the acronym “DREAM”, it must be good, right?
(Just like “fairness”.)
There are illegals in the military too?
I guess we could've assumed that.
IT IS AMNESTY!
Dream Act is AMENSTY.
ANYONE regardless of citizenship becomes an achor baby up to the AGE OF 30!
AGE OF 30!
as long as you attended a public high school.
it is the abolistion of the 1996 termination of anchor babies.
Not immigrant...illegal alien. The statement that they are provide a path to U.S. legal residency admits that they are illegal aliens.
U.S. citizens face barriers too. The principal barrier is paying for your education. It's much harder when you have to pay for your education and sustain the burden of higher taxes to pay for the education of illegals aliens as well.
This act and others like it are not only subsidies for young ILLEGAL ALIENS, they are MASSIVE subsidies for UNIVERSITIES and COLLEGES that have raised tuition beyond the reach of more and more AMERICAN parents. When the desire to further educate their children leads millions of families to the point of financial ruin, many pull back and plans and hopes are altered.
But the HOLY GRAIL of “higher education” must be preserved at all costs.
When those who have NO legal rights to be in our country can claim benefits and advantages denied to citizens, something is REALLY screwed up.
Again, the racist group La Raza (Spanish for “the race”) is at it again....denying the rights of American citizens at the expense of their racist/hate group Hispanic Ku Klux Klan agenda.
The DREAM act is nothing more than granting rights to illegal alien lawbreakers, at the expense of American citizens, legal immigrants, and legal international students.
And, its your tax dollars that will subsidize the illegal aliens....regardless of which state you live in. All schools receive some form of Federal Govt money
“This legislation will restore the States’ rights to determine residency requirements for higher education benefits - giving states the option to provide in-state tuition.”
The legislation does the exact opposite. The states currently have the power to do this. I live in MA. Liberal MA and we rejected in-state tuition by wide margins.
The dream act would in fact shift the power to the federal government. That’s why there has been this push for comprehensive immigration reform. The states are acting on their own, and to the elite’s minds, this cannot be allowed.
The abolition of what? The anchor baby rules still stands. That is half the problem. What part of the 96 bill are you referring to?
Hat-Tip to LaLydia...Ping!
no the anchor baby rule was abolished in 1996. Don’t confuse it with birthright citizenship.
As of 1996 CUSTODY follows the parents being deported NOT the us citizen child. Thus the child goes WITH the parents.
THERE ARE NO FAMILIES BEING DIVIDED.
This is just a scam to abrogate the need for US citizenship as an anchor. Since ANY school child will act as an achor, then illegals will flood to register ANYONE under 30 in order to act as the anchor for the whole family to stay.
it is pure unadulturated crystal clear AMNESTY.
There already is a provision where illegal aliens can obtain citizenship after serving four years of active military service. If I remember correctly two of these personnel have earned the Medal of Honor for heroic action.
I have no problem with this as serving our nation in this war time makes a far better citizen, regardless of origin, than whiny spoiled punks floating through college on Daddy’s money expecting the world to be handed to them.
That’s the only exception I approve of. No DREAM Acts that steal poor citizens’ chance for college, no HUD schemes that illegals use for turn-over schemes that rob poor families the chance of home ownership and no considering anyone who speaks Spanish a separate race when all races constitute Hispanic/Latinos/Whatever. That’s a scam trying to ride on the hard-earned labors of our black citizens without all the suffering they endured.
Citizens are covered. These groups are working on behalf of illegal aliens. It’s unfortunate that so many of their children, raised here all there lives, were never legitimized due to their parent’s sheer ignorance and paranoia.
It’s easy enough to solve. Test them academically and keep the highest two thirds. This surpasses policies of most nations while allowing the U.S. to keep good talent working for us. The bottom third go back to Ecuador, Mexico Nicaragua, etc. and spread the word to stay awake in school because America isn’t the pushover they were told.
We’re all carrot and no stick as it is.
The dream act is essentiall “unlimited SERIAL immigration act”
Here is what happens, the first amnesty family brings over the children of the next family and so on. Essentially the children become the grappling hooks of a pirate ship for the boarding party.
currently you have to be in a legal status to serve in the military and the time to citizenship is three years instead of five. Those honorees had legal documents that put them on legit status.
under current law you can not “cure” illegal alien status by just waltzing into the military.
Under CURRENT LAW, those who are in school are FREE TO APPLY FOR A j visa or STUDENT VISA. (and the colleges will help with the j visa!)
The entire dream act is 100% scam. (even the illegal aliens in the military provision)
ALSO do not forget we currently HAVE a rolling amnesty for those that have been in the usa for 10 years.
again this dream act is all smoke and mirrors democrat party fakery. The rupublican who signed on to this is a useful idot.
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Even If You Favor Amnesty For Some Illegal Teens, This DREAM Act Must Be Stopped
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2590020/posts
Here’s the real story:
No. 1: Not valedictorians — or even necessarily good students.
Any illegal alien who can manage to meet the minimum requirements to graduate from high school or get an equivalent degree meets the first test.
No. 2: Primarily NOT teens or college students.
The Senate DREAM bill allows you to be up to 35 years old!
The House bill has no upper limit.
No. 3: Don’t have to have come when a child.
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