and here.
Posted on 09/18/2017 6:26:49 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
A quintet of former U. S. Secretaries of Education is weighing in on behalf of the so-called DREAM Act designed to benefit the children of illegal aliens.
"We write out of deep concern for approximately two million Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children," they indeed did write in a letter to congressional leaders of both parties. "Over the past five years, hundreds of thousands of these young people came forward in good faith to participate in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."
"They registered with the government, passed extensive background checks, and worked tirelessly to get on the right side of our country’s laws. They chose to take part in DACA so that they could move forward with their lives, realize their potential, and become full-fledged participants in America's civil society. They have been able to obtain driver's licenses, pursue higher education, secure employment, create new companies, serve in our military, and become contributing taxpayers."
The letter offers no numbers or sources to substantiate any of these claims. Since the signers include political appointees who have served in Republican and Democratic administrations, the declaration looks bipartisan.
Yet and still, all of the five are members in, more or less, good standing with the educational establishment. They are:
• Richard W. Riley, Former Secretary of Education, President Bill Clinton • Roderick Paige, Former Secretary of Education, President George W. Bush
• Margaret Spellings, Former Secretary of Education, President George W. Bush
• Arne Duncan, Former Secretary of Education, President Barack Obama
• John King, Former Secretary of Education, President Barack Obama
What they also have in common are policies they pursued while in office that, arguably, did little to turn around declining education trends, including:
• No Child Left Behind;
• Race to the Top; and
• Common Core.
We have written about all of the above. Letters from former officials might be more impressive if they gave any indication that the active retirees learned anything from their time in office.
This one doesn’t.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia. He can be reached at mal.kline@academia.org.
I was thinking they could create a checkbox on the 1040 for donations to “Dreamers”. Whoever wants to sponsor an uninvited guest into our country could pony up as much as their conscience calls for, for as long as they’re willing. With all those wealthy Hollywood and Silicon Valley types clamoring for it, think about how much they could rake in!
“the children of illegal aliens”
DACA accepted “children” up to 31 years old.
What age is their cutoff point - or don’t they have any.
Evidently no one knows just how many of each age group are involved.
The Action illegally being deferred by the illegal President’s illegal program for illegal aliens is deportation.
Illegal aliens are deportable.
Do it.
What liars. The Government themselves states that background checks were omitted in most cases.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20662/report-obama-dhs-scrapped-background-checks-daca-aaron-bandler
This is a pointedly UNdistinguished group of incompetents and hacks. They brought more misery into classrooms across the country than measles through their asinine policies. Their opinion is worth less than the dried up dead squirrel in the street in front of my house. Their area of expertise lays more in the butt-kissing and rubber stamping than professional educator arena. How utterly irresponsible it was to put these jumped up wannabes in charge of the nation’s kids’ education.
Let’s deport these five hacks as well.
A bunch of these “children” were not “brought by parents” but were put on/in freight cars in Honduras & Guatemala to transit all the way across Mexico. Once north, they were hooked up with a “coyote” to get them across the border. This appeal to emotion illogic by these political hacks is also false in its premise.
Why don’t all these wealthy ex political hacks just adopt and sponsor a few dozen each if they care that much.
and here.
hey, you might be onto something....
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