Make Dream Act A Reality (Get the hanky handy - or barf bag)

Courant.com ^ | 3/13/2011 | Helen Ubiñas

[raybbr]

In truth, it was a long time coming — that moment Mariano Cardoso Jr. retreated to the secluded stairway on the 11th floor of Capital Community College.

He had received the letter from immigration officials last month, the one full of jargon that he didn't totally understand, but that instinctively made his heart sink.

But really, the realities of his undocumented status had been closing in from the moment his parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico as a baby.

To the days he was growing up in the Bronx and he first heard the words: undocumented. Illegal.

To the three months the family briefly returned to Mexico in an effort to straighten out his father's status and he looked around and felt like an outsider.

To his teenage years in New Britain, when he wanted what all his friends had: a job, a car. And again, his parents told him, he couldn't.

The 22-year-old also couldn't get the financial aid he needed to go to college to become a math teacher. But he and his father cobbled enough money together to pay tuition at Capital Community College, where he is scheduled to graduate in May.

If he is still here.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Here’s a better idea. Give the Kenyan a shot of testosterone and send him back to Mexico to tell Calderon to create THEIR OWN “dream act” for THEIR OWN people. It should not be left up to the U.S. taxpayers to solve Calderon’s problems.

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Meanwhile, citizen children of citizen tax payers subsidize the in-state tuition paid by alien invader offspring.

Meanwhile, citizens are murdered, raped, and assaulted by criminal foreign invaders.

Meanwhile, government officials who swear to defend the law and the citizens of their jurisdictions call for more invaders, more money for invaders, and more citizen-paid services for invaders.

There is basically only one crime being prosecuted in today's America: Being an American.

[bwc2221]

The longer the border is unsecured the worse this problem will become.

[Jacquerie]

Thank the open border democrats for your troubles.

Now leave.

[BobP]

What will be the effect on our society of allowing the immigration of tens of millions who have 90 IQs and no tradition of education? Such a question will never be asked, because the only permissible terms of discussion are the liberal terms of human equality and non-discrimination.

Harry 'Dream Act' Reid

[Hardastarboard]

See my tag line for my take on this story.

[screaminsunshine]

Anyone got a kleenex or small violin?

[screaminsunshine]

Anyone got a kleenex or small violin?

[screaminsunshine]

Anyone got a kleenex or small violin?

[screaminsunshine]

Anyone got a kleenex or small violin?

[tumblindice]

Think of all the good he could do for his countrymen with his American education in Mesheeco. A lot of foreigners come here to study and they come to like it here.
So what? Where in USC Title 8 does it say that an illegal alien can stay if s/he would rather not leave?

[kcvl]

Mariano Cardoso, 22, of New Britain is a math major in his fifth year at Capital Community College in Hartford. Cardoso is also an undocumented immigrant who is facing possible deportation to Mexico. He says he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally with his parents when he was an infant. He has lived in the U.S. for most of his life.

[kcvl]

Change.org - We believe that building momentum for social change globally means empowering citizen activists locally.

This week on RadioActive, Mariano is joined by Trinity College student activist Theresa Meehan, from the Stop the Raid Coalition.  A petition for Mariano has been set up here.

http://tinyurl.com/66mng8r

Started by:

Prerna Lal
(Washington, DC)

As Co-Founder of DreamActivist.org, Prerna built a vibrant activist immigrant youth community online that has mobilized thousands into action. She is a law school student at George Washington University, an Immigrant Rights and Race blogger at Change.org, and a Board Member of Immigration Equality.

Contact email - prerna@change.org

[kcvl]

American Union

U.S. gives Mariano Cardoso Jr. the boot

http://americanunion.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/u-s-gives-mariano-cardoso-jr-the-boot/

[kcvl]

Barring immigration reform, Cardoso’s only chance is to get a U.S. senator to introduce what’s called a private bill, identifying him as someone who should be allowed to stay in the country.

Gaby Pacheco, of United We Dream, a national organization that advocates for undocumented students, said she knows of only three or four private bills that have been introduced in the last five years. Former Sen. Christopher Dodd introduced one in 2007 for two brothers, born in Colombia and raised in Florida.

http://www.ctnow.com/news/hc-hartford-cardoso-0307-20110306,0,6182019.story?page=2

[wac3rd]

How about a Community College in Mexico City? Better weather and less “discrimination”.

[youscreamIscream99]

I thought this reply on the website was perfect.

“nhalectteacher at 5:10 PM March 12, 2011

Helen, they are American in every way except one, they don’t pay taxes like the rest of us citizens. The public school he attended, the health care, and the college all receive funding from tax paying citizens, yet this young man and his family accepted those services but did not contribute toward their funding. The tuition that he scraped together was all done with untaxed dollars. So while some poor citizen whose parents have to pay taxes and don’t have enough extra cash to send their child to college, this young man who works illegally, off the books and therefore doesn’t contribute a dime toward the public institution he attends takes a slot. For every illegal immigrate educated in our public colleges, one legal citizen misses out, that is a cold hard fact. There are a limited number of slots available at publically funded colleges, and those slots belong to tax paying citizens. My tears are directed toward the tax paying citizen who couldn’t attend CCC because this illegal had his spot.”