Thread: DREAM Act to be voted on this week (ALIPAC mentioned)

DREAM Act to be voted on this week
Would give undocumented students path to citizenship
By ELIZABETH JOHNSON | The Daily Tar Heel

Updated: 37 minutes ago

A 9-year-old piece of legislation will get another chance to pass in Congress this week, giving undocumented immigrant students a conditional path to citizenship if approved.

The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act gives undocumented immigrants less than 16 years old, who have lived in the country for more than five years, a chance to earn American citizenship.

People who meet these requirements will have to complete two years of military service or earn a college degree in exchange for their green card.

“We are thrilled about this,â€

Any Congressperson who votes for this Dream Act should be voted out of office in November. OUT! OUT! OUT! Yellow-bellied traitors is what they are. There are millions of Americans who want college educations but can't get a seat and these horned devils want to hand out 65,000 seats to illegal aliens??!! And how do they know there are 65,000 illegal aliens who would be eligible for this?! Has someone been counting them and asking their immigration status AFTER ALL??!! Oh wait, isn't asking someone their immigration status "racial profiling"??!!

Anyone who supports the Dream Act is a two faced, no good, low down, lying ass, pond scum TRAITOR/ Period.

It is apparent that we need to bring to the attention of the US Congress, Article 1, Section 9, that reminds this body of current idiots that it has no Constitutional Authority to legalize any illegal alien no matter their age, no matter their education or military service. None whatsoever, because the US Congress has NO AUTHORITY to admit 1 alien, let alone an illegal alien, without the consent of the state legislatures affected by it. Immigration is a state responsibility under the US Constitution, not federal. The feds can only stop it, they can't create it, generate it, admit it, grant it, permit it or let alone contradict US immigration law and legalize illegal aliens for illegal votes.

Welcome to the US Congress: The Global Headquarters for the Theater of the Absurd.

yes you are 100 % right they all should Be vote out every one of them it not racial at all this is Obama doing

well this all started when Gov jan sign the bill to close the border . Obama block everything gov jan did . I knw he did he want all the illigal immigrant to have it all . & the American to have Not one thing . he for the muslim & the Illigal immigrants all the way . well I did not vote for him at all . I know he stop everything she try to do . well thank god for Joe . a sfor this Dream act that funny this is not a game let them come over the right way . & Show me your Birth certificatie I know we Have lot of the Illigal immigrant all ove r the world In this country it about time the Gov . get On the ball . we are the voice Of American no Amnesty I want all the Illigal Immigrant & No citizen ship to baby . why in hell are you congress all for this Illigal Immigrant all the American work very hard also & this is what they get akick In the ass well Not this time the hold Wh & all of the congress should be out . why you are at it why don't they frezz your Pay & see what it lke to live On 7.25 Hr & work 2 jobs you could not do it this Dream Act it a joke
Thank you APIPAC for the News

ACTION NEEDED HERE

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Harry Reid's Illegal Alien Student Bailout

The so-called DREAM Act would create an official path to Democratic voter registration for an estimated two million college-age illegal aliens. Look past the public relations-savvy stories of "undocumented" valedictorians left out in the cold. This is not about protecting "children." It's about preserving electoral power through cap-and-gown amnesty.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this week that he's attaching the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill. With ethnic activists breathing down his neck and President Obama pushing to fulfill his campaign promise to Hispanics, Reid wants his queasy colleagues to vote on the legislation next week.

Open-borders lawmakers have tried and failed to pass the DREAM Act through regular channels for the past decade. That's because informed voters know giving green cards to illegal alien students undermines the rule of law, creates more illegal immigration incentives and grants preferential treatment to illegal alien students over law-abiding native and naturalized American students struggling to get an education in tough economic times. This bad idea is compounded by a companion proposal to recruit more illegal aliens into the military with the lure of citizenship (a fraud-ridden and reckless practice countenanced under the Bush administration).

DREAM Act lobbyists are spotlighting heart-wrenching stories of high-achieving teens brought to this country when they were toddlers. But instead of arguing for case-by-case dispensations, the protesters want blanket pardons. The broadly drafted Senate bill would confer benefits on applicants up to age 35, and the House bill contains no age ceiling at all. The academic achievement requirements are minimal. Moreover, illegal aliens who didn't arrive in the country until they turned 15 -- after they laid down significant roots in their home country -- would be eligible for DREAM Act benefits and eventual U.S. citizenship. And like past amnesty packages, the Democratic plan is devoid of any concrete eligibility and enforcement mechanisms to deter already-rampant immigration benefit fraud.

The DREAM Act sponsors have long fought to sabotage a clearly worded provision in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that states: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident."

Ten states defied that federal law and offered DREAM Act-style tuition preference to illegal aliens: California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington. The last time DREAM Act champions tried to tack their scheme onto a larger immigration proposal, they snuck in language that would absolve those 10 states of their law-breaking by repealing the 1996 law retroactively -- and also offering the special path to green cards and citizenship for illegal alien students.

Despite the obvious electoral advantage this plan would give Democrats, several pro-illegal alien amnesty Republicans crossed the aisle to support the DREAM Act, including double-talking Sens. John McCain, Richard Lugar, Bob Bennett, Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, Larry Craig, Chuck Hagel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mel Martinez and Olympia Snowe, as well as presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (who champions even greater illegal alien student benefits than those proposed by Democrats). After paying lip service to securing the borders, McCain promised DREAM Act demonstrators this week that he supported the bill and would work to "resolve their issues."

Out-of-touch pols might want to pay attention to the world outside their bubble. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum favor tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws over rolling out the amnesty welcome wagon. When asked, "Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration?" solid majorities of registered Republicans, Democrats and independents chose stricter enforcement over greater integration of the illegal alien population.

Democrats outside the Beltway have grown increasingly averse to signing on to illegal alien incentives -- especially as the Obama jobs death toll mounts and economic confidence plummets. Here in Colorado, a handful of Democrats joined Republican lawyers to kill a state-level DREAM Act amid massive higher education budget cuts and a bipartisan voter backlash.

Asked why she opposed the illegal alien student bailout, one Democratic lawmaker said quite simply: "I listened to my constituents." An alien concept in Washington, to be sure.

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