Thread: JW-Activists Will No Longer Challenge Maryland DREAM Act Ref

Do not forget that Tom Perez, DOJ is the past President of Casa de Maryland.

Judicial Watch: Activists Will No Longer Challenge Maryland DREAM Act Referendum

WASHINGTON, DC — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today announced developments in the MDPetitions.com legal action over whether Maryland voters will have the opportunity to directly consider "tuition benefits" for illegal alien students. Pursuant to a Joint Stipulation signed on December 5, 2011, Casa de Maryland and illegal alien activist plaintiffs will no longer challenge the "sufficiency and number of the petition signatures" collected by MDPetitions.com to place the repeal of the illegal alien tuition benefits policy on the November, 2012 Maryland ballot.

The plaintiffs will continue to maintain that the Maryland DREAM Act cannot legally be subject to referendum. However, as MDPetitions.com argues in its court filings, Maryland voters are merely exercising their rights under Article XVI, Section 2 of the Maryland Constitution, which unambiguously states:

"The people reserve to themselves power known as The Referendum, by petition to have submitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the General Assembly, if approved by the Governor, or, if passed by the General Assembly over the veto of the Governor."

The Maryland DREAM Act was enacted by the Maryland General Assembly and signed by Governor Martin O'Malley on May 10, 2011. The law makes certain illegal aliens eligible to pay reduced tuition rates at Maryland community colleges and public higher education institutions, including the University of Maryland. The MDPetitions.com petition drive collected 132,071 signatures, nearly twice the amount required by law to put the new benefit to voters in a referendum.

Illegal aliens and the activist group Casa de Maryland challenged the petition drive in court to give taxpayer dollar subsidies for college tuition for certain illegal aliens. On October 7, 2011, MDPetitions.com was granted permission to intervene in the lawsuit which seeks to deny voters an up-or-down vote on the Maryland DREAM Act (John Doe, et al., v. Maryland State Board of Elections, (No. 02-C-11-163050)). The MDPetitions.com group is represented by Judicial Watch. The chairman of MDPetitions.com is Maryland Assembly Delegate Neil Parrott of Washington County; Delegate Patrick McDonough of Baltimore and Harford Counties is its honorary chairman.

"Now that both sides agree that MDPetitions.com's petition signatures are sufficient and valid, illegal alien activists are running out of arguments to shield the Maryland DREAM Act from the voters," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "This political lawsuit is designed for one purpose: to deny Maryland voters a right to have their voices heard on the issue of taxpayer-funded perks for illegal aliens. We are confident the courts will uphold our client's petition drive and that democracy will not be subverted."

Neil Parrott stated, "While Casa de Maryland wanted to throw out literally tens of thousands of valid signatures in an effort to short circuit the democratic process in our state, they simply could not do it. The hard work of Marylanders from the Eastern Shore, to the Baltimore region, to Southern Maryland, to the mountains in Western Maryland paid off, resulting in over 130,000 signatures submitted and over 109,000 validated signatures. These strong numbers, almost twice the required validated signatures, proved to be an obstacle that the opposition could not be overcome. This victory shows that Marylanders do have a voice, and that by working together we can defeat legislation that just doesn't make sense."

"This is the People's Petition and the most historic referendum drive in the state of Maryland. We needed to collect 55,736 valid signatures of registered voters in less than 60 days to send SB 167 to referendum. The citizens submitted over 132,000, and the State Board of Elections validated over 108,000. Today is a great day for the people of Maryland, who are one step closer to voting on the referendum they have clearly asked for and are legally due," said Delegate McDonough.

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Maryland immigrant group drops petition challenge

Dream Act faces 2012 referendum

By David Hill

The Washington Times

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Immigrant-advocacy group Casa de Maryland has conceded the validity of signatures gathered against the Maryland Dream Act but will continue its lawsuit to block a 2012 referendum on the issue.

Casa and other advocates this week dropped their challenge to the “sufficiencyâ€

The problem we now face is that Casa de Maryland is saying this issue cannot legally be put to a vote. They are still vowing to do anything and everything to prevent legal taxpaying citizens from voting on how OUR tax dollars are spent.

They are still promising that Catholic church leaders, along with college-bound illegal aliens, will be knocking on doors between now and November 2012 in order to sway our opinions and votes.

Oh, and now since Baltimore is going to be tested as a new "sanctuary city" thanks to Obama, the power in numbers with illegal aliens only continues to grow in my state of Maryland:

WASHINGTON — — Baltimore is one of two cities selected to test an immigration policy adopted by the Obama administration that could freeze deportations of illegal immigrants who have no criminal records, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

The elderly, children who have been in the country more than five years, students who came to the U.S. under the age of 16 and are enrolled in a college degree program, and victims of domestic violence are among those whose deportations could be put on hold under the test program, which begins Dec. 4 and could be broadened in January.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-1 ... cacy-group

Oh, and please do not forget that here in Maryland, we USED to have an incredible program that granted scholarships to the top 350 high school scholars across Maryland.

But wait.....THAT program had to end because of "budget concerns", HOWEVER, there IS enough taxpayer money to supplement the education of illegal alien invaders.

For as long as I can remember, this scholarship program was made available. Now when you go to the website, this is what you see:

http://www.mhec.state.md.us/financialAi ... rog_ds.asp


HOW DO YOU THINK IT FEELS WHEN THE CHILD OF A LEGAL TAXPAYER IS DENIED ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP MONEY, EVEN WHEN THAT CHILD IS IN THE TOP 350 RANK OF ALL MARYLAND STUDENTS, BECAUSE OUR GOVERNOR SAYS THERE "IS NO MONEY"???

.....YET THAT VERY SAME GOVERNOR IS PUSHING FOR REDUCED TUITION RATES FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS THAT WILL BE SUBSIDIZED BY TAXPAYERS???????

DISGUSTING TO SAY THE LEAST.

Oh wait,.....and it gets even worse.....

Another issue our pro-illegal alien Governor said he "agreed with" was when our local community college decided to start charging senior citizen double the fees for courses in which they enroll. All in the name to help with budget cuts once again.

So there ya have it.....in Maryland, senior citizens, who have worked all their life and wish to spend their golden years acquiring new knowledge, AND the top 350 high school scholars who wish to better their future all have to do it on their own, at an increased cost, because WE all have to make sure we have enough money to subsidize the tuition of illegal alien invaders.

ARGH!!!!!!

http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/region ... or-seniors