Thread: The E in DREAM

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The E in DREAM
December 10, 2010 10:08 A.M. By Heather Mac Donald

While Sen. Harry Reid regroups for another shot at passing the DREAM Act next week, it’s worth reviewing the details of this little-analyzed law. The MSM inevitably presents the law as a way for successful young illegal aliens who are living the American dream by pursuing a college degree to fully join the mainstream. In fact, the DREAM Act is written to maximize the number of illegal aliens who are shielded from immigration enforcement, period. Its educational and character trappings are so minimal as to be pretextual.

[b]Every illegal alien who applies for what is known as “conditional legal statusâ€

The DREAM Act is not about creating an incentive for, or rewarding, high educational achievement. It is about trying to extend an amnesty to as many illegal aliens as possible, who will then have the ability to legalize their family members.

EXACTLY!

I'd like to see those Democrats who stand up and give the tear jerking speeches go on trial. If the Republicans are going to investigate other illicit activities when they take over the house, organizing lobbies of invaders to try to control our Congress should be a priority. Even Nydia Velazquez said that it was illegal. And they always cite the most outstanding examples of undocumented students who are high achievers. And they represent what? About two percent of the potential beneficiaries of the DREAM.

From what I read on their blogs it sounds like about one fourth of them want to go into immigration advocacy careers. And as usual in higher ed. the liberal arts diplomas are practically worthless on the job market and even the technically trained graduates in engineering and the sciences have a lot of competition.

This is just another liberal, looney tunes fiasco. Tell all your friends to oppose this!

High school drop-outs qualify for conditional legal status, so long as they have obtained a no-brainer GED at some point.

My neighbor is a citizen and did things the right way. However when he earned his GED he did it in Spanish.

In Los Angeles (and undoubtedly elsewhere), jail overcrowding (significantly due to illegal-alien criminals) is such that prosecutors and courts routinely plea-bargain felonies down to misdemeanors and sentence property crimes and even some violent offenses to time served in jail while awaiting a plea bargain.

That's something that I hadn't completely realized the implications of before. In places with high illegal alien populations, the illegals may be committing so many crimes that the only way the system can deal with them is plea-bargains down to misdemeanors (or drop the charge completely). That may explain why the crime stats for high illegal alien areas may not show crime rates much above other areas while anecdotal evidence/observation says that they should be. I.e., what would be charged as a felony in a non-illegal area would be charged as a misdemeanor where illegals concentrate.