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Opinion: Sueños
Fox News Latino ^ | December 10, 2010 | Geraldo Rivera

Posted on 12/10/2010 12:53:51 PM PST by moonshinner_09

Have a heart.

If passed by the Senate next week, as already passed by the House, the controversial Dream Act would represent a small but important step toward normalization for the totally blameless among the millions of undocumented immigrant families in our midst: their children.

If passed, and signed into law by the President, the Act would grant conditional legal residency to those innocents, upon fulfillment of certain specific requirements. Before I cite those substantial hurdles, and regardless of how you feel about the volatile larger issue of illegal immigration, remember – we are talking about young people who came to this country before the age of 16, and who have been here for at least five years.

Often carried in the tired arms or on the bent backs of parents desperate to give their kids a better life than they could offer in their home countries, it is estimated that about 800,000 children would qualify for the tough but reasonable path to citizenship that the Dream Act provides.‪

At this special time of year when Christmas helps us focus on the neediest, picture their plight.

Here's an example of the youngsters for whom the Act is intended: call him José, an 18-year-old Mexican kid smuggled across the Arizona border at, say, 7-years-old, who has since graduated from high school, or earned a GED. Having committed no crime or been found in anyway doing anything detrimental to his adopted country, this is still a kid facing the end of the world as he knows it

Protected up until graduation by Supreme Court decisions mandating that no distinction in public schools be made between students here legally or illegally, José, on the cusp of adulthood, can go nowhere but underground.

(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration
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If José during that time commits a crime or drops out of college, or even gets tossed from the military, then he reverts immediately to his previous illegal status, presumably soon to be deported.This is the key word presumably soon to be deported.What will make his plight less important 10 years later, it will still be the same old story, that is being pitched now.
1 posted on 12/10/2010 12:53:52 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

Jerry, go look under some rock for Al Capone’s stash. Just leave the heavy thinking to adults......................


2 posted on 12/10/2010 12:56:42 PM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: moonshinner_09

Geraldo Rivera is full of it.

NO SALE.

NO AMNESTY IN ANY FORM.

Innocents my aching. Includes ages up to 30 years!


3 posted on 12/10/2010 12:57:08 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: moonshinner_09; SpinnerWebb

Jerry .. you assclown, come take a look at this chair I've got.

4 posted on 12/10/2010 1:00:10 PM PST by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: moonshinner_09
Americans are tired of being MUGGED! These illegals can go home. Illegal is ILLEGAL!!!
5 posted on 12/10/2010 1:02:47 PM PST by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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To: moonshinner_09

At the bottom of the Fox News page, among that celebrity stuff is a Mexican couple in the entertainment industry announcing their plans to come to the US and produce an anchor baby.
Not only will we be giving a free ride to the world’s poor, downtrodden, looking for a leg up crowd, but we will be giving free rides to the world’s elite trying to save a buck.


6 posted on 12/10/2010 1:03:15 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: moonshinner_09

So, as always....it’s for the childrennn! *sniff sniff*

Nevermind that the law-breaking parents - and their enablers within our midst - counted on our soft-hearted compassion from the get-go. In other words, they’re (figuratively speaking) holding a gun to their own kids’ heads and extorting money from us.

I say, go on and pull the trigger (figuratively speaking), and let your kids grow up seeing what rotten parents you are. It’s a hard lesson, but they’ll at least learn how NOT to treat their own children when they grow up.


7 posted on 12/10/2010 1:04:58 PM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: WestwardHo

Correction: Make that save a Peso, or whatever.


8 posted on 12/10/2010 1:05:13 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: moonshinner_09

I do have a heart, Mr. Rivers, I also have a brain. Get lost.


9 posted on 12/10/2010 1:05:37 PM PST by JPG (Sarah dedicated her new book to Trig: "I'm glad you're here.")
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To: moonshinner_09
Or as Dave Barry referred to him in a column a few years back,

"The new toilets were supposed to save water. And they work OK when it comes to disposing of what is euphemistically referred to as ``Number One.'' The problem is that, when they must dispose of what is euphemistically referred to as ``Geraldo,'' they tend to clog, and they often must be flushed repeatedly, which actually wastes water.

10 posted on 12/10/2010 1:06:09 PM PST by BuckyKat (Green is the new red.)
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To: moonshinner_09

I’m sick of liberals trotting out anecdotes that we’re supposed to believe apply to tens of millions of people. ONE SAD STORY (which may or may not be true) IS NOT JUSTIFICATION FOR NATIONAL POLICY!


11 posted on 12/10/2010 1:06:52 PM PST by Spok
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To: moonshinner_09

Without illegal immigrants we would be paying $50 for a head of bananas. American banana farmers cannot survive without them. According to Whorealdo.


12 posted on 12/10/2010 1:10:03 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: moonshinner_09

Pesadilla.


13 posted on 12/10/2010 1:12:03 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: moonshinner_09

Deport
Deport
Deport
Deport
Deport
Deport


14 posted on 12/10/2010 1:13:08 PM PST by The Toll
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To: moonshinner_09

Deport Jerry Rivers.


15 posted on 12/10/2010 1:22:37 PM PST by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: moonshinner_09

I want to see the border secured before we do anything else.

I don’t trust our lawmakers anymore. We did the amnesty thing before, and the promise was that they would secure the border. They didn’t, and now the problem is worse than it was before.

Secure the border. Enforce the law. Then we’ll talk. When new border jumpers have been reduced to near zero, we can talk about any special cases. Until then, I don’t trust anyone. If they can’t secure the border, how am I supposed to trust their ability to police this kind of law?


16 posted on 12/10/2010 1:32:26 PM PST by marron
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To: marron

I agree. I’ll have a heart once the border is secure. Nothing until then. Once secure, we can decide who gets preferential treatment, who gets to jump through hoops for citizenship, and who goes back. Until then, you’re only throwing chum in the water.


17 posted on 12/10/2010 1:36:42 PM PST by SanDiegoRepublican
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


18 posted on 12/10/2010 1:49:56 PM PST by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from the back porch...)
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To: moonshinner_09

19 posted on 12/10/2010 1:52:09 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Red Badger

Ditto !!

Hey Jerry, What about all those who have been waiting patiently to become US citizens legally ? You want to reward the law breakers and penalize the lawful ? You are a lawyer, don’t you believe in upholding the law ? If I rob a bank and go to jail should my kids be rewarded with a free lifetime membership to the local Country Club ? If we don’t enforce US immigration laws we are no better than the country that these people deserted.
They should be deported along with their parents !!


20 posted on 12/10/2010 2:05:56 PM PST by soundapproach
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