Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has obstinately defied the wishes of the American people by scheduling a vote on a controversial immigration bill during Congress' upcoming lame duck session. It takes hubris to try to ram through what conservative commentator David Frum calls "a massive unwinnable fight over amnesty for illegal aliens" through the same Congress that rejected it just two months ago.
The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act would grant legal residency status to any illegal immigrants under 35 who were brought to the U.S. as children if they enroll in college or join the military. On the surface, this may appear to be a compassionate way to deal with youngsters whose parents broke the law, but Frum notes that the bill's provisions are fraught with peril to our national security.
Since the Department of Homeland Security would be forbidden from using any information in a DREAM Act application during deportation proceedings, the bill provides what Frum calls a "no-risk option" to halt any present removal attempts and taint all future efforts. It's also an insult to the intelligence of voters that a bill officially directed at minors provides retroactive benefits to illegal immigrants of any age who have merely completed some military service or taken prior college classes.
In return for legal residency and an estimated $44 billion in taxpayer-supported in-state tuition and federal student aid, DREAM applicants don't even have to earn a college degree or be honorably discharged from the military.
Even before the bill's two-year requirement is up, all they have to do is claim "significant hardship" to quit college or leave the service, and then use their newfound status to sponsor members of their extended family -- ahead of foreigners waiting patiently for legal permission to enter the U.S.
Read more at the Washington Examiner
The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act would grant legal residency status to any illegal immigrants under 35 who were brought to the U.S. as children if they enroll in college or join the military. On the surface, this may appear to be a compassionate way to deal with youngsters whose parents broke the law, but Frum notes that the bill's provisions are fraught with peril to our national security.
Since the Department of Homeland Security would be forbidden from using any information in a DREAM Act application during deportation proceedings, the bill provides what Frum calls a "no-risk option" to halt any present removal attempts and taint all future efforts. It's also an insult to the intelligence of voters that a bill officially directed at minors provides retroactive benefits to illegal immigrants of any age who have merely completed some military service or taken prior college classes.
In return for legal residency and an estimated $44 billion in taxpayer-supported in-state tuition and federal student aid, DREAM applicants don't even have to earn a college degree or be honorably discharged from the military.
Even before the bill's two-year requirement is up, all they have to do is claim "significant hardship" to quit college or leave the service, and then use their newfound status to sponsor members of their extended family -- ahead of foreigners waiting patiently for legal permission to enter the U.S.
Read more at the Washington Examiner
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This bill SUCKS. We have children that were born and raised in this country that can't afford to go to school because this country spends so much money on illegal immigration. Now, the politicians are buying the votes of the registered hispanics buy allowing their anchor babies/cross the border babies, famalies, friends and children the opportunity to go to school off the tax payers dollars. And, the American dollar is probably worth only 60 cents. I guess the American born citizens votes is worthless. The Dream Act Sucks. It does absolutely nothing for an American born citizen.
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