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Isn't it against federal law already to offer illegals in-state tuition breaks & how can America who is broke?
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Isn't it against federal law already to offer illegals in-state tuition breaks & how can America who is broke pay towards giving illegals a free college education ?Give illegal immigrant children a shot at citizenship with the DREAM Act
Posted by Maria E. Andreu/ NJ Voices Guest Blogger April 06, 2009 8:27AM
Categories: Race & Immigration
WILLIAM PERLMAN/THE STAR-LEDGER
Students, labor unions and immigration advocates rally in Newark for the DREAM Act, which would help the illegal immigrants go to college.Imagine this: You're eight years old and your mother says you're moving. You go with her, of course (do you have any choice?) and, once you get to your new home, you settle into your eight-year-old's life of school, friends, sports and television.
But ten years later you come to understand the importance of the move: You are 18 years old, and you can't get a job. You can't go to college. You can't get a driver's license. Because the trip your mother had you take was across the border, into the U.S. illegally, and you find you're an undocumented alien.
What should the U.S. do with you? Should you be held accountable for your mother's actions?
The DREAM Act, recently reintroduced in the Senate, aims to address this heart-breaking issue by giving kids in this situation a path to citizenship. To qualify, a person must have entered the U.S. prior to the age of 16 (and be under 30), have been here for at least five years, and have a high school diploma or been accepted into college. Once they obtain their temporary status, which lasts up to six years, they must complete college, or two years of military service, to be eligible for permanent residence.
Sounds hard to oppose, right? Innocent bystanders, Americanized young, who will be asked to prove they are hard-working members of our society being given a chance to live productive lives . . . who can be against that?
Well, it turns out to my dismay, a lot of people can.
The opposition is two-fold. The first, perhaps most understandable in these trying economic times, goes something like, "We hardly have enough to go around for the people who are already here legally. How can we absorb millions of new people on a path to citizenship? Give them in-state tuition breaks? Offer them services?"
The reality is this: These young people are already here and have grown up American. The choice is not "make them legal" or "make them go back home" - in most cases this is the only home they can remember. Without passing the DREAM Act, the choice is more like "make them legal" or "consign them to a shadow existence without the possibility of a decent on-the-books job and fruitful life." The National Immigration Law Center reports on a RAND study that estimates that the DREAM Act would reduce immigrant drop-out rates (how motivated would you have been to finish high school if you knew you had no chance at college once you graduated?).http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2009/04/give_illegal_immigrant_childre.html
These are now adults and they have the power to do things the right way.
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give back to this country – their home- through hard work, service, and dedication.
I guess the rest of America is not doing anything at all and only the illegals are doing it all
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American Man
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Its just another load of crap, forced on the US citizen. We had no say in the illegal coming here either. Had we had a voice in it, the majority would say....secure the borders, deport ALL illegal aliens invading our nation and keep them out! |
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Micky....the resurrection
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Yes it is. While those kids may not have had made the choice to come here, the citizens of this country also had no choice in them coming here. Deport them all. |
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Sasori
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It is against Federal law, passed in 1996, to give in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
It is unfair to Americans who want the limited seat available.
It is unfair to taxpayers. Forcing us to pay for an adults education, when they are not here legally and cannot work here legally.
allowing in-state tuition for illegals will not lower the drop-out rate nor will it stop teen pregnancy.
In-state tuition WILL INCREASE illegal immigration. This will never end if the government keeps giving benefits to illegal aliens.
These children here illegally know at some point they are illegal, and can fix their status at that point. The fact that they don't says alot about them. They want it easy, They don't want to work or pay for legal status, they want it, like everything else, handed to them. Courtesy of US taxpayers. |
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Hungran
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They are illegal. They should not get any handouts. I do not care they can go back home get their student visa apply for student loans and be in debt just like the rest of us. Screw the dream act if we quit giving handouts maybe they will start coming to this country illegally. |
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youarewrongbobisright
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WOW - Read the comments at the bottom of the article (click on link).
EVERY SINGLE ONE IS AGAINST THIS IDIOTIC IDEA!!!!
Smart people, stupid writer. |
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Ida Slapter
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What a bunch of BS! This is just about beefing up democratic voters before 2010!
Guess what - even with a degree they will still be illegal! And if you have trouble with high school you will never make it in college.
On the other hand - it really isn't much of an education - most colleges are only indoctrinating - not teaching. |
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pianojangee
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Deciding in-state tuition is university's policy based on the State law, not the Federal law.
DREAM Act has failed 2 times alread and it won't pass it again. The huge fault of DREAM Act is only focused on the children of illegal status. There are tons of children of Legal immigrants who pays higher tuitions on F1 visa while waiting for their parents and subsequently their immigrant visas. DREAM Act doesn't include those who do everything legal way and it will encourage more illegal immigrants. |
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egay
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Education is the most powerful tool to change ones life. These children who came in will be staying anyway, so they should be made educated immigrants and not push them to the back walls where they have no chance for advancement. If they are given an education, then it will be good for America and all of us.
However, I do not agree with the the cut off age of 16 and under 30. They are too old. Younger is acceptable, older is just giving them a free ride. I do not agree. People who came in when they were 16 until 30 should have applied to legally come in like all other immigrants from other countries. Now, this act is abusing the system and I strongly oppose it. This is a free ride all the way and why should it be rewarded? |
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Willow
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First of all, wouldn't it be better to educate the people that are coming here? Secondly, where do you get that America is broke? America is still one of the richest countries in the world. Why the desire to prevent other people from gaining what your ancestors gained for you?
America already has one of the most stringent, horrible immigration policies around. Lets not feed the beast. |
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