It seems like Rubio's bill would give college-aged illegal aliens brought here as kids and educated in U.S. schools the equivalent of student visas, such as are handed out annually to thousands of foreigners who apply to U.S. universities. Such visas do not confer U.S. citizenship, and do not even set up a pathway to citizenship. Watch how the amnesty pushers are all aghast at Rubio's "anti-immigrant" and "discriminatory" bill; while the devil's in the details, and I would like to see the final text before endorsing it, the fact that the open-borders and backdoor-amnesty crowds oppose the bill is a positive sign. Opposing anything with the word "dream" in it is just plain stupid.
They shouldn’t be getting anything.
You are being either being ridiculously naive or you are on the side of rewarding the lawbreakers.
Thoughts?
Several problems with this:
1) Some GOP congresscritters are really good at getting swindled at this kind of thing (or maybe they pretend they didn't really understand that GWB's 2007 amnesty bill "triggers" would not work at all).
2) Right now the Left says it rejects The Rubio Dream Act because it doesn't include "a path to citizenship," but strategically it would be very good for them to get a foot in the amnesty door, even without citizenship. They could add the other goodies later by several means, including the help of rogue judges and RINOs who think pandering will keep them or put them in office.
3) A lot can happen to a bill on its metamorphosis from Rubio's website to a bill that would get 60 senate votes, and I'll bet many of those changes would be concessions to the Left.
Congress has passed enough bad bills recently. They vote for them without even knowing (they claim) what is in them (see Pelosi).