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Obama Secs of Education and Labor break law, meet with illegal aliens at Ed Dept

posted at 12:35 pm on January 9, 2012
by Howard Portnoy

What do illegal aliens really want? That burning question was one of several explored at a meeting in Washington on December 15 at the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education. The confab, titled “Student Voices,” was presided over by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Attendees included “DREAMers,” aka illegal aliens who have lived in the United States from a very young age.CNSNews.com writes:

[A]ccording to the Department of Labor’s website, Duncan told the illegal aliens about the administration’s ‘efforts to assist students who are undocumented’ through the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act—the DREAM Act. Solis also spoke to the illegal aliens about the DREAM Act.

CNS notes that the Department of Education also reported on the meeting in an article published on the department’s official blog, Homeroom.Well, isn’t that special! Regardless of your political affiliation and/or ideological purview (and unless you’re DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz), illegal aliens are by definition lawbreakers. Their fears about “their uncertain futures and the possibility of deportation” are justified.For that matter, Duncan and Solis are also guilty of a crime. According to Paragraph 1324, Chapter 12 under Title 8 of the U.S. Penal Code:

Any person who … knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building …shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

The penalty is a fine under Title 18, imprisonment for no more than 5 years, or both. If any of the immigrants present at the meeting were to go on to engage in an action that resulted in the death of another person, Duncan and Solis could face a life sentence.CNSNews.com writer Terrence Jeffrey reports having contacted the press office of the Department of Education with questions about the meeting, including:

• How many undocumented aliens came to the meeting?
• Did they go through any security checks? How were they positively identified if they did not have legal documents attesting accurately to who they were?
• What countries were they from?
• Has Secretary Duncan (Solis) had any other meetings with illegal aliens at the Department of Education, or was this the first?

So far, Jeffrey wrote on January 6, his questions have not been answered. Hotair

Secretaries Duncan and Solis Meet with DREAMers


Posted on December 21, 2011 by Guest Blogger


Secretaries Hilda Solis and Arne Duncan meet with students during one of Duncan's regular "Student Voices" sessions. Official Department of Education photo by Leslie Williams.

“Opportunity.”

A powerful concept packed into a single word.

This was the word one young person chose to describe what education means to him when asked by Secretary Duncan and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis as part of a reoccurring Student Voices meeting at ED headquarters. The frank conversation between the Secretaries and the group of young advocates largely revolved around the obstacles undocumented youth face while living in the United States, particularly limited access to higher education.

Several of the students discussed how difficult it was to be a “DREAMer”—a label derived from the “DREAM Act” that the students use to describe undocumented young people who have lived in the U.S. from a very young age. The students explained their frustration and disappointment that they cannot fulfill their dreams of a college degree once they graduate high school, good grades and hard work are rendered invalid the day they learn they can’t apply to colleges or scholarships without having a social security number.

With estimates of approximately 65,000 undocumented immigrants graduating from American high schools annually and no viable pathway to legal status, this is not an isolated problem.

DREAMers’ obstacles to higher education are myriad. Even if accepted, most colleges and universities require undocumented students to pay non-resident or out-of-state tuition – a prohibitive cost. They get no access to federal financial aid (this includes Work Study and Pell Grants) and their chances for scholarships are narrow at best.

“I got in to a top school,” said one now non-student with tears welling up in his eyes. “But I deferred because I don’t have a way of paying for it. I can’t apply for financial aid, so Work Study is out.”


Victor George Sánchez Jr., President of the United States Student Association, speaks with the Secretaries during the "Student Voices" session. Official Department of Education Photo by Leslie Williams.

There is irony in the fact that the U.S. has an abudance of undocumented students who are extremely motivated, informed, who earn excellent grades, and who have developed marketable skills.
And yet, we are turning away promising nation-builders in droves.

As teachers, we work tirelessly to prepare our students for their next steps in life – documented or undocumented. It’s as if these fearless young people are on a starting block and we rally them to bound forward enthusiastically with all the promises of a college education and the hopes of a solid career.

“Ready!…Set!…” But instead of yelling “Go!” we ask them to take one step back because, while they did every single thing we asked of them over their school career (and they did it well), it’s still not enough.

I ask myself why we spend so much energy on creating more hoops for talented young DREAMers to jump through. Why not spend it finding ways for them to connect with opportunities they worked so hard to glean?

Claire Jellinek is a 9th-12th grade social studies teacher at South Valley Academy in Albuquerque, NM and a 2011-2012 Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellow.

Secretaries Duncan and Solis Meet with DREAMers | ED.gov Blog

This is exactly why I made this pg.
http://www.alipac.us/f9/congressiona...atives-248063/

Read the entire CNSNews article here: http://www.alipac.us/f12/secretaries...ept-hq-247459/

Stevetheroofer, surely you are not under any illusion that laws apply to those people?

Laws apply to people like you and me. Those people are well known as LAWLESS.

Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC

Stevetheroofer, surely you are not under any illusion that laws apply to those people?

Laws apply to people like you and me-those people are widely known as LAWLESS.

I say we let Issa and Grassley decide that! Hey! did you look at this?
http://www.alipac.us/f9/congressiona...atives-248063/

Our entire gov't is lawless , the Founder's are spinning in their graves.