Thread: Mass. Sen. Brown says he won't support DREAM Act

Mass. Sen. Brown says he won't support DREAM Act
Dec 13, 2010 3:03pm Email Print BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Scott Brown said Monday he will not support the DREAM Act and called the bill aimed at helping illegal immigrant college students "backdoor amnesty."
");?> Speaking to reporters at a Salvation Army charity event in downtown Boston, the Massachusetts Republican said he would not vote for the proposal despite months of intense pressure from advocates and educators that included Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.

"I'm not supportive of it," he said. "I think it's a backdoor amnesty and I'm not in favor of it."

Under the proposal, some illegal immigrants would qualify for permanent legal residency by graduating from college or trade school, or by joining the military. The Senate is slated to vote on the measure this week, but supporters aren't sure if they have enough votes to break a filibuster.

Brown's remarks came as a coalition of educators, religious leaders and immigrant advocates made a last ditch appeal Monday asking him to support the proposal. Brown also had been a target of a national campaign by advocates.

For months, supporters of the bill and illegal immigrant college students, who call themselves "DREAMers," have staged sit-ins, rallies and marches outside Brown's office. Students have left hundreds of signed letters from supporters and young immigrants who said they would enlisted in the military if the bill passed.

In September, Brown came out against the DREAM Act being attached to a defense bill and said supporters were "playing politics with military funding in order to extend a form of amnesty to certain illegal immigrants."

But advocates had remained hopeful that Brown might support a standalone bill after hearing stories from students who live in Massachusetts. Many of the students who would benefit from the bill were brought to the U.S. as young children.

"It's unfortunate that Sen. Brown has decided to stand against the majority of the American public on this issue," said Kyle de Beausset, a U.S. citizen and a member of the Boston-based Student Immigrant Movement. "Amnesty implies forgiveness. How can you give forgiveness to innocent, young people who did nothing wrong?"

Renata Teodoro, 23, a Boston student who would benefit from the DREAM Act, said Brown's decision would not prevent her from pushing for the bill.

"It's not going to stop me or us from trying to persuade him and other senators about the DREAM Act," said Teodoro, who has organized protest outside Brown's Boston office. "I'm disappointed, but I'm not discouraged."

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Hoping he does not fall for any of the sob stories considering what this Amnesty would do to American and its people.

The DREAM Act is a TROJAN HORSE!

"Amnesty implies forgiveness. How can you give forgiveness to innocent, young people who did nothing wrong?"

Because when you're an illegal alien it doesn't matter how you got here. It doesn't matter if your parents carried or dragged you here, it doesn't matter if you walked in or rode in beside them, it doesn't matter if you came here legally and over-stayed your visa. You are in the wrong country in violation of US immigration law, which means you are supposed to deported, not attend college or join our military.

We have these laws for a reason. Gypsies teach their children how to pick-pocket. Does the fact that their parents made them do that change the fact that they broke the law? No, it doesn't. Being deported to your homeland of citizenship may not be what you want, but that is our law, because that is what we wanted when we passed US immigration law.

If we had wanted the children of illegal aliens to remain in our country, we would provided for that in the law to begin with. We didn't, because we don't. We want you to go home and stop trying to change our laws or meddle in our politics or buy up our government, steal our jobs, rob our kids of their educations. use our public services or do anything else in our country.

We want you to go home where you belong.

What on earth our our senators doing even considering listening to illegal foreign nationals ?

They represent Americans , not foreigners

It is mind boggling such a blatant violation of ethics!

"It's unfortunate that Sen. Brown has decided to stand against the majority of the American public on this issue," said Kyle de Beausset, a U.S. citizen and a member of the Boston-based Student Immigrant Movement.

Ah, excuse me! I think you're reading the wrong polls there, buddy.