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The DREAM Act Needs Your Call Now

by NAM (reposted)
Originally From New America Media

The Senate is getting ready to debate the DREAM Act which would help undocumented youth earn a path to citizenship through higher education or military service. But as anti-immigrant activists ramp up their efforts to bring down the bill, this bipartisan bill needs all the help it can get says Rich Stolz, immigration director for the Center for Community Change, a national social justice non-profit which coordinates the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM).
Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates.

Two years ago, on the eve of a major event in Washington, D.C., that would have called on Congress to pass the DREAM Act, we got the news that one of the youth that had planned to join us in Washington had killed himself. He had lost hope that the DREAM Act could ever pass, that there would ever be a path to citizenship for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. He thought that any hope for a future was slipping away.

Each year as many as 65,000 promising and talented students graduate from high school or college and find themselves stuck -- unable to go on to higher education or enter the workforce -- because of their immigration status. However, passage of the DREAM Act would allow these students to earn a path to citizenship either through higher education or military service.

Immigrant communities need this important legislation now. In the wake of the Senate's failure to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill, the real human consequences of not passing any relief for America's undocumented population are clear

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The problem is, once you do away with the rule of law, this is what you get. Presecution. Discrimination. Choas. Corruption. There is only one solution, and that is to go back to the rule of law, one law for all, applied equally. So all illegals must be deported. No more special deals for illegals. They must follow the law like everyone else.

The present proposals are racist in the extreme.

The Dream Act wants to give preferential benefits to hispanic illegals over American college kids.

The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other family members of USA citizens of other races and ethnic groups who do not live on the border and so cannot easly walk in and be illegal.

The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other family members of USA citizens of other races and ethnic groups who are waiting in line to come in as legal immigrants.

The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other people of different races and enthnic groups who want to come to America.

And you wonder, with this type of pro Hispanic preferences and total racisim against Whites, Blacks, Asians, Indians and others, why people are getting pissed off.

Can anyone see any of these laws actually getting by the American Constitution? There certainly is not equality under the law, nor are they racially neutral, instead there is a major racial preferience given to hispanics and major rights losses to other races.

Think about it.
by Abe.
"The present proposals are racist in the extreme."

What is so racist about it?

"The Dream Act wants to give preferential benefits to hispanic illegals over American college kids."

The Dream Act is for ALL students it does not say anything about hispanics so please explain how it gives preferential benefits? Also the in-state tuition was taken out of it.

"The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other family members of USA citizens of other races and ethnic groups who do not live on the border and so cannot easly walk in and be illegal"

All the dream act is doing is to give them CONDITIONAL permanent resident status. If someone who is illegal in the U.S and has a family member that is a U.S Citizen they can sponsor them to become permanent residents without the need for the Dream Act. Any ethnic group can come into the U.S as a child with a passport and overstay making them illegal.

"The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other family members of USA citizens of other races and ethnic groups who are waiting in line to come in as legal immigrants."

Why just hispanics? Are you saying all hispanics didn't wait in line and are illegals? These kids are going to be in the back of the line not in front of legal immigrants.

The Dream Act and amnmesty programs want to give a vaste majority of hispanic people perference over other people of different races and enthnic groups who want to come to America.

How many time do you have to make the same statement? Do you have a 9 sec memory?

"And you wonder, with this type of pro Hispanic preferences and total racisim against Whites, Blacks, Asians, Indians and others, why people are getting pissed off. "

Actually there are a lot of white and asian illegals who overstayed their visas.

"Can anyone see any of these laws actually getting by the American Constitution? There certainly is not equality under the law, nor are they racially neutral, instead there is a major racial preferience given to hispanics and major rights losses to other races."

Why you keep saying hispanics when in the bill it does not say anything about hispanics?

Think about it.





As a mother of four school-age children (eldest about to go to college next year), a proud Hispanic-American (whose parents immigrated here legally over 50 years ago), I am deeply concerned and opposed to the "DREAM Act" which is an amendment stealthily placed by our U.S. Senators to grant illegal alien students and their families not only amnesty, a path to citizenship and full benefits/privileges of legal residency ( including driver's license and access to all public benefits and services reserved for our own needy citizens) but would also

1. allow illegal aliens who self-attest that they were brought here before the age of 16 (no proof required, just a sworn statement proffered by the illegal alien applicant) , in-state college tuition benefits (paid for by our tax dollars) at all public colleges/universities in the U.S., a benefit that U.S. citizens attending out-of-state colleges do not receive. This places illegal aliens in a better position than U.S. citizen students and even in a better position than foreign students on valid student visas (they always have to pay out-of-state tuition rates).

2. It grants illegal aliens full access to federal and state college financial aid programs, including grants, loans, work-study, scholarships. That means every American student and their family applying for federal financial aid programs will now be competing against millions of illegal alien students and their families for that aid to attend college in the U.S. Since most of these illegal alien students and their families are overwhelmingly on the lower end of the economic scale, they would be accessing the lion's share of any need-based federal/state financial aid. This also means that an illegal alien student is in a much better position than foreign students on student visas b/c they are not eligible for any federal financial aid programs.

3. Illegal alien beneficiaries under the DREAM Act would then also be able to sponsor their parents who brought them here illegally in the first place) and an unlimited number of family members ( for citizenship and legal residency, including full access to all public benefits/services, medicaid/medicare, welfare, education, etc. A very nice windfall and reward for bringing a child into this country illegally or overstaying a visa.

The Senate needs to hear from American families struggling to save and worrying about how they are going to pay for their children's education. Is it fair that we are making American families subsidize these benefits for foreign nationals who reside here illegally? The illegal alien students have every right and opportunity to attend world-class colleges and universities in their home countries including eligibility for scholarships and financial aid. No one is denying them that opportunity. Public and private universities in most of Latin America and Mexico, for example, are extremely inexpensive compared to the equivalent in the United States. ( The Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala for example costs just about $110 dollars/per year, the National Autonomous University in Mexico costs less than a thousand per year). Unless American university students are given the same privileges and rewards by the foreign governments representing the country of origin of any of the "DREAM Act" students, then this law makes no sense and absolutely jeopardizes the ability of many American high school students (especially those who need to rely on federal and state financial aid) to attend and graduate from college.

God Bless America!

Mariann Davies
Vice-Chair, Founding Member
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