DREAM Act - Whats wrong with it?

speaking_my_mind

I don't understand how someone could go to school their whole lives, attend college, and join the military without their immigration status being known. This just shows that our laws aren't being enforced. If our laws were being enforced, we wouldn't have children growing up in the U.S. while illegally here.

fretochose

Dream Act was defeated. Amnesty is not an option. If amnesty is ok for one set of criminals,it would be discrimination not to include all criminals, robbers, rapists, murderers

Green is the new RED!

Honestly, they should be deported with their parents. When will you guys get it. Over 80% of the American taxpayers don't want to have to pay for welfare, health care, food stamps, loss of tax dollars, identity theft, and the costs of crimes that they commit. This costs American taxpayers BILLIONS a year. If your such a bleeding heart liberal you pay for their handouts and leave our tax dollars alone.

Mama~peapod

You know as a parent you are suppose to make safe and sensible choices for your child, coming to the states as an illegal is not one of them. You must be aware of the consequences of your actions and what effect this will have on your child when you cross the border illegally

It may not be the child's fault that they were brought here, but they are having to deal the the result of a bad decision their parent made by not following US immigration law.

maur911

All you have to do is think of "ILLEGAL" that's all! A great number of these illegal aliens have been arrested for heinous crimes and have been arrested for rape, assault etc. and their country refuses to take them back so we are stuck with them! In many cases they are let back out on bail to rape again! Also, the are bankrupting our hospitals, over burdening our schools, etc. But in a simple word..."ILLEGAL!"should be a good enough reason!

MLK

America is enforcing laws that are civial and just. These children are not American citizens, and are only being returned to their mother country..... DO NOT make this sound like a human rights issue, or some sort of ethnic cleansing. Their parents made a very bad desicion, and now want to use their children as leverage. If we allow them a free pass then others will follow suit, and do the same. We need to stand firm aginst those that wish to take advantage of our good nature.

Deport illegals, and keep the dream alive.

sister_godzilla

If the parents are deported, then the children should leave with the parents. If they all want to come back, they should go through the legal process.
Legal immigrants are welcome.

bootsontheroad

Still having that problem with the word illegal? You back door efforts to give amnesty to the illegals will not work and I do not care how many kids you parade in front of me.

let me make this plain enough. If you are in this country illegally, get the heck out now. I am for total enforcement of the law. If you are caught here illegally you WILL be deported never to return.

Lori K

It's a shame that the illegal alien parents put their children in this position, HOWEVER, that is their fault, not the fault of the United States. Our country isn't responsible for righting every parental wrong. Unfortunately, when parents make bad decisions, sometimes innocent children have to suffer. It may not be "fair" but the harsh reality is that a government can't reward criminal behavior unless they are willing to accept more of the same behavior. Rewarding these young adults with "easy" citizenship when others are denied (others who HAVE followed our laws) just isn't fair either. Why should THEY suffer in their countries because illegal alien parents decided to break the law?

I'm sorry, but this precedent can't be set. It's a shame for the children of these parents, but lots of things in life aren't fair. The unethical act created was the illegal entry into a country that wasn't their own. Children have to suffer for illegal acts of their parents all the time. It's a consequence of breaking the laws.

You are making a very good argument, by the way, for denying illegal alien children public education. If they aren't allowed to go to free schools, perhaps their parents will think harder about destroying their future. They don't seem to be considering it at all now.

mikea_va

Because it gives illegal children special treatment over American children!

pacer

What is wrong is that I can not pay for my own Daugther to go to college, yet my taxes would be used to send "illegals" to college. For every one illegal that is granted a green card, times that number by 50 more because human right activists would say it is not morally right to separate these young humans from their "loving families".

If they wanted this Dream Act to pass they would not of included a college education. It would of explained that at a time of war we need more people in the military and citizen-ship would be granted after four complete years in the military to each enlisted person, their spouse and child, not their parents, grandparents and thousands of cousins.

They knew this Dream Act could not pass as worded, but it bought a few politicians a bunch of votes. Why do you think it was named the "Dream Act"??

mikey

What's right with it?

If people can't afford health care for their children, then they shouldn't have children.
It's just like with an automobile - maintenance is part of the cost of owning one. If you cannot afford to maintain it, then you cannot afford the car.

45 auto

Dream act What's right with it>Only in the minds of the DEM>Selling out the USA & citizens for the illegals>

DAR

I am going to answer this one more time, then I think I am going on strike on this question.

1. We pay $10,000 per child per year for education while those kids are here in grades k-12. Those funds, that space in overcrowded schools, and those programs cause programs to be cut for our own kids. When will that be addressed? And extending the problem to universities is punishing US and our children. What did WE do wrong and whose benefits did we wrongfully benefit from? A child of someone who stole something may not be at fault, but the kid doesn't get to keep what was taken and get even more once the parent is caught. You are framing the issue wrong.

2. Starting from my position that reform of immigration laws needs to focus primarily on repairing the impact to our schools and services for our own people caused by too many too poor to pay their way coming and using those services, I could still support a narrowly tailored Dream act.

WHY should that include chain migration rather than a 'blue card' for residency only for that person, and WHY should it have 'waivers' for family unity etc to waive reasons we wouldn't let other people legally come, to begin with?

WHY should it go to age 30, and why not have a cut off for only those already here 5 years?

You and everyone else base sympathy for this act on 'the good high school student who did every thing right and would now go to college'. Why doesn't it only cover those people?

It sure looked like they were trying to crowbar the exception to the rule open to let in as many as they thought they could get away with, and they didn't add funding to Universities impacted, at all.

Aren't there more constructive ways we could address this?

OBX

If they leave their child here, they should be charged with child endangerment....sooo at that point they have no other choice but take the child with them.

Ms.L.A.

The sins of the parents are visited on the children, this from Biblical times. What has changed? Bad parents make bad decisions and the children must contend with their decisions. I certainly don't think the USA should have to pay for the bad parenting of illegal aliens! Get over their propaganda, we did what was right.

aznflippgurl

well yeah but it's the law we can't do nothing about it

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