Thread: Despite Media Mythmaking, the DREAM Act is for Adults

Despite Media Mythmaking, the DREAM Act is for Adults

by Jon Feere*, Contributor

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slideshow (Washington, DC) - The open-border media continues to mislead the American public about the DREAM Act, which Sen. Harry Reid has said he will offer as an amendment to the defense spending bill as soon as next week. You wouldn't know it from reading a newspaper or scrolling through your favorite online news site, but the proposed amnesty is an amnesty for children and adults – illegal aliens up to 35 years of age (see Senate Bill S.729). This fact does not seem to have made it into the newsrooms across the nation:

The Los Angeles Times explains that the proposed measure "would allow minors" to receive amnesty.

The Wall Street Journal claims that it would benefit "undocumented minors."

Politico claims it would benefit "young, undocumented immigrants."

ABC describes the beneficiaries of the DREAM Act as "young illegal immigrants" and "children and teenage immigrants."

CBS claims it would benefit "undocumented young people."

The Washinton Post is using the phrase, "young people in the country illegally."

CNN claims that the bill would benefit "young illegal immigrants."

Roll Call, an inside-the-beltway newspaper distributed to all offices on Capitol Hill each morning, claims that the bill is "for children in the country illegally."

The Hill, another inside-the-beltway favorite, gets it really wrong by claiming that the bill "would put the children of illegal immigrants who meet certain conditions on a path to citizenship." However, the DREAM Act does not have anything to do with the parent-child relationship. The only relevance is that if illegal aliens do have living parents, those parents – even if overseas – would also be put "on a path to citizenship" because of existing chain migration laws that allow legalized illegal aliens to bring in their extended family members.

These media outlets – and many others – are full of writers who are either uninformed or willfully misleading the public. As far as the age requirement goes, under the DREAM Act an illegal alien simply must claim that he or she entered the United States sometime before reaching the age of 16; the standard of proof required by the government is unclear and it should raise concerns of fraud as most illegal aliens enter clandestinely and off the record. The only other age requirement is that an applicant must not have reached the age of 35 at the time of the bill's enactment. It is also unclear how the government will deal with fraud regarding this age requirement. Illegal aliens do not have U.S. birth certificates. Will DHS, the agency tasked with coming up with the regulations, require faxed copies of foreign birth certificates as evidence of age? If so, does this mean that the administrative accuracy of the DREAM Act will be dependent on the accuracy of bookkeeping in foreign nations (many of which have a vested interest in keeping their citizens permanently in the United States)?

These are but a few of the many questions the media isn't asking.

One more interesting fact about the age cut-off: Since the first version of the DREAM Act in 2001, the age threshold has been expanding, the goal being a larger and larger pool of potential beneficiaries. In the 2001 version, S. 1291, the applicant had to be younger than 21; in the 2007 version, S.2205, the applicant had to be younger than 30; and as noted earlier, the latest version of the DREAM Act allows applicants up to age 35. The version inserted in the 2007 amnesty bill, S.1348, had no age limit.

Depending on how a new version of the DREAM Act is written, it has the potential to immediately legalize millions and also result in the admission of millions more immigrants for years to come via chain migration.

*Jon Feere - Legal Policy Analyst of the Center For Immigration Studies.

Mr. Feere began working at the Center early 2002. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Davis and his J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law. While in law school he worked in the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, specifically, the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. He also interned as an Assistant Prosecutor for the Montgomery County Maryland Office of the State's Attorney.


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Here's a perverted comment at the link from an "IGNORANT ILLEGAL"!

IGNORANCE_IS_SHAME wrote on Sunday, Sep 19 at 06:01 PM »
It is sad to see how much ignorance there is amongst the american people, and disturbing to know that you are allowed to make public all these quotes taken out of context.

You wouln't be able to tell these people apart from US born americans . These people are AMERICAN RAISED, they are english speakers. They share classrooms with your children, they are in the honor roll, they won merit scholarships for outstanding grades and behavior, they are your co-workers. THEY ARE THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST OF THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR THE PROSPERITY AND SAFETY OF THIS NATION_ people who love this country because they know no other, for all the benefitiaries of this legislation will be people who came here as samll children_

Now they live as SLAVES. Slaves in a country that claims to be the land of the free. Slaves to the mistakes of their parents. Slaves to horrible immigration laws. Slaves to fear of going back to countries they now nothing about, counties filled with war, hunger and terrorism. SLAVES TO THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE DREAM THAT YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS PLANTED IN THEIR HEARTS, THE DREAM THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO OBTAIN UNLESS THIS LEGISLATION IS PASSED.

When the DREAM ACT talks about "minors", it refers to the time these people were brought into the country.

The young adults on the older end of the age group, are people who already have American college dregrees. It just matches CURRENT LEGISLATION, which has allowed these immigrants to go to college already ( on american money by the way) And are just wasting their degrees and their talents, either doing other illegal immigrant jobs, or going to other countries with better immigration laws_ in Europe or Canada (not back to their third wolrd contries like most of us want to send them back to_ people with education want to BETTER THEIR LIFE AND THEIR COMMUNITY)

The benefitiaries would have to pay millions in pardon fees and legalization processing_ IT CREATES REVENUE AND CREATES JOBS!!! _ plus adding well payed professionals to the work force also raises spending..... ITS A WIN WIN, BUT IGNORANT ANTI-IMMIGRANT GROUPS ARE JUST AFFRAID OF TURNING THE COUNTRY BROWN!!!

But these people_ these young people are AMERICAN ALREADY, all they need is a chance.

Notice how this IGNORANT ONE can't bring himself to capitalize American when he's talkiing about us. Never heard of benefitiaries-it must be a new code name for GREEDY ignorant illegal aliens.

So the illegal invader gang-banger taking courses in lock-up to get his GED would probably qualify for citizenship if he claimed he was going to go to college upon his release. Do you trust any of these traitors to carry out any law when it comes to their illegal invaders? They will find away to manipulate and twist this Act to make sure every illegal invader under the age of 35 qualifies for citizenship.

You know they will never turn down any illegal who is enrolled in any type of educational program. The Nightmare Act will be exploited and twisted to fit their amnesty and open borders agenda.

This must never pass!