Posted on 09/27/2011 6:25:09 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
On August 26, just three blocks from San Francisco’s iconic City Hall, the veil was lowered from a 100-foot-wide, 30-foot-tall mural on the wall of the city’s Quaker Meetinghouse. Declaring No Human Being is Illegal, y Cada Uno Tiene un Sueño (and each one has a dream), the piece is the work of an immigrant-rights youth group called 67 Sueños (67 Dreams) whose mission is to raise awareness of the plight faced by the estimated 67 percent of migrant youth who would not benefit from the provisions of the DREAM Act.
The center of the mural portrays three young migrant figures saying, “67% of migrant youth: are pushed out of high school; are ignored by the media; are excluded from immigration reform.” To their left are symbolic indigenous figures and animals who have gathered, dream-like, before rolling green fields. Moving to the right, a grey cityscape overtakes the green fields, the sky turns dark, and the nightmarish realities of migrant life take shape. A desert graveyard bears the names of some of the many who have died on the journey north or in custody of U.S. law enforcement. Looming behind is the image of the separation wall. One youth is pictured climbing over the fence, while an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent arrests another .
The mural evokes the dichotomy between dream and reality – the latter more akin to a waking nightmare. This dichotomy also captures the tensions around the DREAM Act itself.
Only Some Can Dream
Officially called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, the proposed DREAM Act would create a path to citizenship for undocumented youth under the age of 35 who entered the country before turning 16.
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But our leaders did, explicitly. The Cubans are not, therefore, illegals.
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding here, are you talking about deporting the Cubans that are already here, and have been for a couple of generations now?
“youth under the age of 35”
Just like the muslim “youths” who riot and rampage.
We currently have an F’d up policy on Cuban illegals.
“Wet foot” = Deported.
But “Dry foot”, having managed to reach our shore, = Get to stay.
This is inconsistent with our stated immigration policy for every other country.
It is ridiculous to have a split policy for any country, “Dry foot” should be deported too, they are just as illegal, but luckier to have reached shore before being caught.
So Cuba gets to use us as their safety valve, no real change will come to Cuba as those who get truly fed up leave, or are allowed to leave, even occasionally encouraged to leave.
The “safety valve” aspect is similar to Mexico.
We must have a simple and consistent policy, no favoritism for any reason.
Illegal = illegal = deported, NO exceptions for any reason.
If their country is crap, then THEY need to fix it, that might not be easy, too bad, they should not have let it get so foul to begin with.
We had our revolution, it was not painless.
They should not be allowed to take the easy way out and exploit our forefathers sacrifices at no cost to themselves.
I have reached the point that I would like to see a moratorium on ALL “immigration” for at least ten years, we need a breather to catch up with all the “Immigrants” legal and not, who are already here.
We have enough unemployed, stop importing more!
So you mean the new immigrants, I thought you mean all the Cubans who came here years ago. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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