Posted on 11/16/2013 9:46:39 AM PST by moonshinner_09
On the bitterly divisive issue of immigration reform, can we agree that children are different? Can we at least share the view that children brought to America illegally by their parents are not responsible for their predicament? All they did was grow up where the adults in their lives put them. For that reason — and I'm going to lose a few of you here — special rules should apply.
These DREAMers, as they are known after the various legislative attempts to help them gain citizenship, include a subgroup of young people who are even more deserving of an accommodation. Imagine going through years of expensive and rigorous schooling to qualify as a lawyer but being denied Bar admission because of your undocumented status. Welcome to the world of the DREAM Bar Association, a handful of young people who embody the American ideals of hard work and perseverance, and now just need the system to treat them fairly.
Jose Godinez-Samperio could be its poster child.The 27-year-old Eagle Scout and former high school valedictorian was brought to the United States from Mexico by his parents when he was 9 years old. They stayed in the country after their visitor's visa expired.
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Right here,imagine going through years of expensive and rigorous schooling to qualify as a lawyer but being denied Bar admission because of your undocumented status. Welcome to the world of the DREAM Bar Association, a handful of young people who embody the American ideals of hard work and perseverance, and now just need the system to treat them fairly.The sob story of he is just some poor kid along with his supporters, implying how the laws have treated him unfairly by demanding he comply with the terms and conditions that go along with getting a visa.He without a doubt received a free college education.Himself and his supporters state he worked hard to get to where he is at and therefore the gov should just forget about what the laws are for visa overstayers and let him be a lawyer. From their logic we may as well not have any laws at all. First it will be lawyers,next it will be doctor's. Mexico needs some lawyers.No reason why he cannot go home and practice law there in Mexico.
No.
If they were, we wouldn't allow/encourage them to be killed merely because they happen to be in the womb.
For 18 years, his parents flaunted the law. For 9 years, this Eagle scout did too. And, now we are supposed to offer some convoluted statute of limitations, because we are mean and uncompassionate if we don't?
Two words for you, go to he!!
What about legal Americans who pass the Bar? Now they have to compete with someone WHO BREAKS THE LAW! Are we to trust this illegal to follow the system and the laws? Why not pass the bar exam (or equivalent) in Mexico and practice there?
And finally I have to ask: What's in it for me?
I’ve got it.
He can be admitted to the bar. BUT his parents forfeit 1/4 of their assets to the state and 1/4 to the IRS and spend a year and a day in jail, no “good time,” no pardon, no parole.
Can we agree that children are different?.
HELL NO
Give them “Cut privileges” into the line of immigrant applicants from their native country.
He has a tort against his parents.
Go to it.
Somewhere in the LEGAL Immigration line for Mexican Citizens is, almost certainly, one or more young men of equal distinction who are waiting to enter the United States of America. What rights do they have, having properly done all of the things our legal system requires for immigration? Does this fine young man, having had 7-8 years of free schooling through high school, deserve to cut in line ahead of his fellow citizens?
My vote is to return him and his family to the United States, or in Spanish, Los Estados Unidos de Mexico! Hand them the paperwork to apply legally to start the process and get to the back of the line!
Blumner remains consistent. There never has been an issue that she has written and published in the Tampa Bay Times that I have ever agreed with her on. Liberal, communist b!tch.
Robyn Blumner was born in New York City. She grew up in Glen Cove, N.Y. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations in 1982, and New York University School of Law in 1985.
She worked as a labor lawyer in New York and volunteered for the American Civil Liberties Union after graduation, becoming executive director of the Utah ACLU from 1987 to 1989, and the Florida ACLU from 1989 to 1997.
She has since worked as a columnist for The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and serves as a member of the editorial board. Her weekly column is nationally syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Blumner often writes about issues of civil liberties, workers’ rights, and the separation of church and state. Blumner openly declared her atheism in several of her columns.
She was awarded the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2004 for her plain speaking on religion and the First Amendment.
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