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.
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I do. The thing this author doesn't realize is that truly caring about people doesn't mean giving them everything they want. Sometimes love has to be tough to help people become the best they can be. No one's "best" is being a lawbreaker. And no, I'm not in favor of changing the law so that those who have already broken the law are suddenly not lawbreakers.
Where’s the Barf Alert? Have a heart for the American kids who won’t be able to get scholarships, because they’ll be competing against the new favored minority. And whose tuition will go up, because we’ve allowed these others to pay less. And the kids who won’t be able to graduate as quickly as they wanted because the classes they wanted to take were filled with people here illegally. And once they graduate, then they have to compete against these individuals in a job market that once more favors minorities, because we still worship at the altar of affirmative action. Yeah, Jerry, have a heart.
What does suenos mean?
Fox needs to can this Hispano-Racist....Geraldo Rivera
Illegal Aliens need to be deported...not rewarded
Yes, the Supreme Court ruled to force Americans to pay for educating illegal immigrants, even after being told it would encourage more illegals to come here. Just as the Pro Americans are saying the Nightmare Act will encourage more illegals to come here. We've been screwed enough.
Also, if these people were any other ethnicity, Rivers would be against illegal immigration. The only reason he defends them is because 80% are Hispanic.
When are we going to start billing countries for all of the freebees we give their dregs when they illegally cross the border into this country?
“Jerry .. you assclown, come take a look at this chair I’ve got. “
ROTFLMAO !!!
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