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Dream9 Reloaded: Now 30 Undocumented Will Attempt To Reenter The U.S.

Published September 24, 2013Fox News Latino

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About two months after nine DREAMers either left the country voluntarily or were deported then tried to cross the border to protest U.S. immigration laws, 30 others will make the same attempt next Monday, an immigration advocacy group said.

The National Immigrant Youth Alliance, which coordinated the summer crossing in which the so-called DREAM9 asked for political asylum, said in a press release that 29 people from Mexico and one from Peru will seek to enter the United States.

The summer crossing was intended as a protest against the record number of deportations that have occurred under President Obama, and to push for comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate passed a bill in June that would both tighten enforcement as well as provide a path to legal status for millions of the estimated 11 undocumented immigrants.

"The Obama administration has created a deportation machine resulting in the destruction of over 1.7 million lives, and the devastating separation of those families by the border," said Lizbeth Mateo, who was part of the DREAM9, in a press release about the new group that is planning to seek entry. "Those 1.7 million people are not lost and forgotten; rather, they are people who deserve to have the choice to return to their home in this country. While we fight to dismantle the system of continued deportations, we must also fight to bring our community home."

Proponents of strict immigration laws condemned the planned protest.

“Obviously this is theater and they’re looking to make further mockery of U.S. immigration laws,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which pushes for strict immigration policies. “They’re going back to a country they say they’re being persecuted in only to request political asylum. They’re taking something from U.S. immigration policy – political asylum -- that is reserved for humanitarian purposes and using it to create some kind of street theater for their own political agenda.”

DREAM9’s efforts have been largely attacked by activists from both sides of the immigration debate. Immigration activists have called the actions by the DREAMers – who were brought to the country illegally as children – naïve, risky and overly provocative.

Some, like David Leopold, the former president of American Immigration Lawyers Association, said that while he supported their views, he disagreed with their tactics. Others call them courageous and say the risky move may give a necessary jolt to an immigration reform effort that seems to have stalled in Congress.

Immigration reform has stalled in the Republican-controlled House, where some party leaders are adamant about not supporting any measure that provides a break to undocumented immigrants. Many such opponents say that the path to legal status is amnesty, and rewards lawbreakers.

But those who support the measure say something must be done about the huge population of immigrants who live in the shadows.

"The clock is ticking for this administration to make the right decision and to bring home the 1.7 million deported."

In August, Mateo and two other undocumented immigrants brought as children to the United States left to Mexico and, joined by six others, including some who had been deported, sought re-entry. Immigration officials detained them, but then released them pending their petition for political asylum.

The stakes of the DREAM 9 protest were, on a personal level, quite high. The immigrants risked being denied re-entry, or being kept indefinitely in the Arizona detention center where they were taken after they attempted to return to the United States.

The nine asked for political asylum when they approached the U.S.-Mexican border, and recently were found to have sufficient grounds to pursue a claim, and were all released pending a resolution. While they wait for a decision, which could take years, they can obtain a work permit and a driver’s license.

But beyond themselves, the DREAM 9 have become a flashpoint, a new chapter in immigration activism, many experts say.

“In Washington, the acts of the ‘Dream 9’ have upset the delicate politics of the immigration debate,” wrote Michelle Chen in [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME~1/salazar/LOCALS~1/Temp/jpjdeege6768269131275554380.gif[/IMG]In These Times.

This next group, said the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, includes four children and 26 others who were left the United States on their own, or who were deported.

Most of them left of their own accord about six or seven years ago after the DREAM Act failed to pass or because they had no immigration papers they couldn’t go to college and couldn’t do anything with the education they did have,” said Mohamad Abdolahi, co-founder of the alliance. “Others left out of desperation.”

The DREAM9 sparked divisions within immigration advocacy circles, with some applauding their courage, and others deriding their protest as a publicity stunt that could actually jeopardize efforts to reform the immigration system.

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Patriots near the border here is a good chance to steal a little of the spotlight focused on the billionaire financed, open borders lobby's political theater. They really should sell tickets to these cheap theatrical events.

Patriots, be there to give them a good old-fashioned Yankee harangue. "My people came here LEGALLY," "American jobs for Americans." "Educate Americans not foreigners." "You take and take and give nothing." "No more free stuff, you've got plenty already."

They have all the "news" media lined up ready to give them free publicity under the guise of news coverage, there is a good chance you can get some of it too.

Signs with little cartoon pictures on them are most likely to be photographed and maybe printed. Make it funny and it is almost a certainty to make the "news."

Patriots be there and get a free ride on the open borders steam roller.

I have been in politics a long time and I can tell you from experience that every right wing patriotic organization has some leftwing infiltrators looking for ways to create confusion and infighting. I know this is true because some of those people, who did not know I was a conservative, have bragged to me about their dirty work.

We on the right need to infiltrate these open borders organizations so our friends will know in advance what the open borders groups are planning.

Often with theses smaller events, when the left makes a public announcement of an activity there is not enough time to organize an effective response.

David Horowitz, a one time hard core leftist from the 1960's who turned his life around and became a conservative, once said: "Politics is warfare by other means." This is how the open borders (leftists) view current events in American and it seems to be something too many patriots do not understand. Most of the political left hates your guts and thinks it is really great if they can screw over you by dirty tricks. Patriots need to stop looking at political activism as some kind of conventional (win the election) politics. As practiced by the open borders lobby's lackeys, it is far deeper, darker, meaner and vicious than driving granny to the poles on election day (although they will do that also).

As Sun Tzu advised in his classic book on warfare: You must know your enemy to defeat him.

Thirty More DREAMers To Attempt Entering U.S. To Protest Immigration Laws

Published September 30, 2013Fox News Latino

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  "Dreamers" wearing their school graduation caps and gowns to show their desire to finish school in the U.S., march with linked arms to the U.S. port of entry where they planned to request humanitarian parole, in Nogales, Mexico, Monday, July 22, 2013. (AP2013)

It was considered a risky, shocking, and provocative move when three undocumented immigrants returned to Mexico this summer, only to seek to re-enter the United States – with six others who joined them at the border.
The move by what came to be known as the DREAM9 was, in fact, a protest against U.S. immigration policy and the record number of deportations that have occurred under the Obama administration.

But now, 30 more – who once lived in the United States, and either left on their own or were deported – are scheduled to seek re-entry at 1 p.m. on Monday (CST) when they approach U.S. border agents in Laredo, Texas.

"All 30 taking part are DREAMers; meaning they would otherwise qualify for the Dream Act, should it ever pass," said a press release by Mohammad Abdollahi, head of National Immigrant Youth Alliance, which organized the first protest re-entry as well as Monday’s.

We're already in touch with dozens of more Dreamers ready to participate in the next round. Bottom line, we won't rest until the 1.7 million [who have been deported] are allowed to be reunited with their families.

- Mohammad Abdollahi, head of DreamActivist.org

“They come from all over! Some of these kids have traveled as far as Tijuana, Guerrero, Cancun & even Lima, Peru!" the release added.
Just like the DREAM9, who were held in a detention center in Arizona for a few weeks before being released pending a final decision on their political asylum claims, the DREAM30 have come under fire from critics who have said they were engaging in a publicity stunt and are mocking a program that exists for people whose lives have been threatened in their home countries.
The DREAMers are requesting political asylum, saying they feared persecution if they returned to Mexico, where drug violence from cartels has soared. While the U.S. makes a decision on their application, they are allowed to work and remain in the country legally.
It is unclear what the federal government will do with the 30 more DREAMers who are crossing on Monday.
“Obviously this is theater and they’re looking to make further mockery of U.S. immigration laws,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which pushes for strict immigration policies. “They’re going back to a country they say they’re being persecuted in only to request political asylum. They’re taking something from U.S. immigration policy – political asylum – that is reserved for humanitarian purposes and using it to create some kind of street theater for their own political agenda.”
Even some in favor of immigration reform have called the strategy naïve and counterproductive.
Supporters of the DREAM9 say they are heroes because they risked not being able to return to the United States, where they lived as children and grew up, to fight for more rational and humane immigration laws.
The second crossing comes at a time when Congress is bitterly divided over what to do about the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. In June, the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill that would, at its core, tighten enforcement and provide a path to legal status to undocumented immigrants who meet a strict set of criteria.
But immigration reform efforts have stalled in the House, where Republicans have a majority. A conservative faction of the Republican Party is adamant about not passing any measure that would give legal status to undocumented immigrants.
Some Republicans who oppose what they consider amnesty, however, say they would consider allowing undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to be able to legalize their status.
The DREAM30 have roots in 16 different states – Arizona, California, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas and Pennsylvania – said the press release.
“The oldest member taking part is Leonardo, from New York at 33, and the youngest, Ingrid at 13. Ingrid and her family, just like the other 30 DREAMers, have tried everything else to come back home,” said the DreamActivist.org press release.
Abdollahi vowed that more such actions are coming.
“We're already in touch with dozens of more DREAMers ready to participate in the next round,” Abdollahi said. “Bottom line, we won't rest until the 1.7 million [who have been deported] are allowed to be reunited with their families.”
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/09/30/thirty-more-dreamers-to-attempt-entering-us-to-protest-immigration-laws/

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