Posted on 07/05/2011 11:56:47 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
A 10-year proposal to put nearly 1 million immigrants on the path to citizenship rather than deportation finally received an overdue Senate hearing last week.
The DREAM Act would give Americanized children of illegal immigrants a chance to obtain citizenship and remain in the country that they have come to call home. It is directed at an estimated 800,000 people between 12 and 35 years of age who were brought here as young children by their parents, but could face being returned to a country they have never known or called their homeland Many of them have gone on to obtain college degrees and hold jobs.
The act would allow immigrants brought here before they were 15 to qualify for citizenship if they have lived here for at least five years and completed at least two years of college or military service. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the act could yield $1.4 billion in tax revenues from working immigrants. Military officials say the DREAM Act could help meet a recruiting shortage when U.S. troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan and the economy improves.
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Maybe, MAYBE a path to permanent residency, but NEVER a path to citizenship.
Mexico isn't the worst place to have to go.
You are exactly right.
For an illegal to hold a job it would require them to falsify documents which is another crime
They could NOT serve in our military unless they bought some pretty good fake id which is a crime.
WHY would we reward people who knowingly break our laws.
Deny them jobs and benefits, they will go back.
NO. NO NO NO. Round ‘em up, throw ‘em out.
WHAT ABOUT THE ONES COMING IN DAILY A WE SPEAK?????????????
Both those statements are probably made-to-order for this situation and have little to do with reality if examined closely. Evaluating this always has pluses and minuses. We hear about exaggerated pluses and hear nothing of the minuses.
It’s a buzzword fest starting with the usual kindergarten-level DREAM acronym.
Americanized? What is that in a legal sense? Meaningless of course.
So they call it home. I call the vehicles on the local Lexus lot ‘mine’ but if I took one I would be prosecuted.
Excusing the parents’ crime does nothing to dissuade others from committing same.
A country they’ve never known or called home? Why so many Mexican flags then?
What a load of rubbish.
Well, they'll be waiting for the next Dream Act, or the next amnesty, having no real reason to believe there won't eventually be a next... At least to this point.
Check out this Perry VS Texas Border towns.Skipping into story what stands out is, “Is it safe to be on the U.S. side of the Texas/Mexican border? Absolutely. We get calls from people from big cities from like Houston and Dallas. All have the same questions: ‘Is it safe? Is it as bad as we hear? Are there kidnappings in the middle of the streets and people just being blown away?’ And it’s not, it’s nothing like that at all.”
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137445254/texas-governor-wages-own-battle-along-border
Sounds like they be on the cartels pay roll
I don’t agree with this but I won’t be surprised if republicans eventually go along with it.
They could at least make their acquiescence contingent upon deporting the other 12 to 34 million illegals.
But they won’t.
Let’s just be frank here. This isn’t a ‘dream act’, it’s a nightmare act.
Why is it that everyone’s poor feelings have to be dealt with, except the feelings of the citizens of the United States?
We have to abide by the law. Non citizens don’t. Tell me who has more rights. It’s pointless to be a citizen these days. You have less rights than non-citizens.
If any amnesty is given it must NOT include the right to vote. This is the price of coming here illegally. This is also the price the Dems must pay for pandering to people willing to violate the law.
All this crappy act does is put going to college (for no matter what worthless degree) on par with military service.
Doesn't America have a more than ample supply of home-grown people with worthless degrees? If we need to import, let's at least import something we actually need.
I wonder if the jackassocrats would be inclined to do this if they knew that 90% of the Mexicans would vote Republican???
Their "path to citizenship" needs to begin with deportation back to their native country, where they can get in the back of the line at the nearest consulate. Fill out paperwork, pay fees, wait just like any other person trying to do it legally.
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No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test
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The “Path to Citizenship is about 700 miles wide, give or take.
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