Dream Students
While Congress continues to debate the DREAM Act, which would allow some young people a path to citizenship, it's worth looking at the pros and cons. Immigration discussions general include making sure America recieves people with skills or talent to increase our own percieved value as a society.
Look at a a brief scorecard of the potential beneficiaries of this law, it's easy to see the basic character of the young people benefitting.
Cons against student:
Their parents brought them to this country without filling out, paying for and waiting for proper immigration status.
Pros:
In the country at least five years prior to the law passing
High school graduate or has attained a GED
Has not committed a felony or multiple misdemeanors
Williing to serve in the military
These are young people whose only con weighing against them is their parents not following the immigration process. All of them are upwardly mobile and many have been putting more into this society than native born Americans. This year, they even ammended to law to prevent the mythical immigrant from qualifying. In the 2010 version of the law, you:
Must not have voted illegally in an election
Must not pose a threat to public health
You also get no preference for family immigrating. So, the ten years the undocumented parents spent raising the child in a stable enviromnent defiitely won't be rewarded by the child's immigration status.
No tuberculosis and HIV, no rigged elections and no "rewards for criminals." The student is even complying with myths and rhetoric about immigrants.
When you see a solidly performing young person from a hard background and there is strong opposition to including them in society, this is why motives of the opposition are questioned. What values are they upholding by impeding hard working youth?
For more information on teh DREAM Act, NCLR has a resource page.
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