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Dream Act Nightmare Continues
Posted by Raven on October 22nd, 2007
Amnesty is sneaking up again.
Michelle Malkin:
Fresh off the S-CHIP debacle and their FISA retreat, the Dems look to the illegal alien tuition subsidy legislation known as the DREAM Act for redemption.
Time to take some action folks!
(October 22) By invoking Senate Rule XIV on S. 2205, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has paved the way for prompt (and ill-advised) floor action on the measure, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty bill. The procedural move, made late last week, means that the DREAM Act may be brought to the Senate floor as early as Tuesday (October 23) without ever having been considered in committee.
S. 2205, which is cosponsored by long-tenured Republicans Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), is, essentially, the same amnesty offered up for consideration by Durbin as an amendment (SA 2919) to H.R. 1585, the Defense Department (DoD) authorization bill for fiscal year 2008. The Senate passed that bill October 1 without ever taking up the DREAM Act amendment or amendments concerning increased worker importation.
In this most recent iteration, the DREAM Act authorizes DHS to cancel removal for, or adjust to lawful permanent resident status (in other words, grant amnesty to), an alien who is inadmissible or deportable in cases where the alien demonstrated that he/she:
* has maintained continuous presence in the United States for five years and was not yet 16 years old upon initial entry, but is no older than 30 years of age;
* is of “good moral character” and is not inadmissible or deportable on certain criminal grounds or on the basis of being a risk to national security; and
* has been admitted to an institution of higher education, has attained a high school diploma, or has obtained a GED in the United States.This ill-conceived proposal, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who satisfy these criteria as of enactment, also would be a rolling amnesty drawing more illegal aliens here in the future to apply for amnesty.
First off, we all know these illegals are NOT of good moral character- their mere presence here in the US shows us they have NO MORALS. Breaking laws is unethical…AND don’t be fooled by this rhetoric sounding as though it’s for the children. Bullshit. This faulty legislation is amnesty for all illegal immigrants and those who wish to USE the children in the game.
This latter revision would narrow, but would not close, a gaping loophole in this amnesty because any illegal alien up to age 30 can still walk into any U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, declare that he is eligible, and be granted amnesty with minimal documentation of eligibility. That 30-year-old could claim that he illegally entered the United States when he was 15, but there is no requirement that the alien prove that he entered the United States at the claimed time by providing particular documents. The proposal would merely require him to “demonstrate” that he is eligible, which in practice could mean simply making a sworn statement to that effect. Thus, it would be an invitation for just about every illegal alien 30 and under to fraudulently claim the amnesty.
The Lemoncrats (TM) are trying to sneak this into vote as soon as tomorrow. We must counter this with phone calls to our elected reps ASAP.
Capitol switchboard – 202-224-3121.
NOW. And first thing in the morning. Let them know how you feel.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
The analysis of the bill up there (in blue/violet boxes) is done by someone who either doesn’t know the English language or is very manipulative of the anti-immigration crowd.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE + 2 YEARS OF COLLEGE
Believe it or not, these two things are very hard to fake. And are you telling me INS is just going to go, “Well, since it appears you have the documents, we’ll give you green card” ? Don’t you think they would, you know, CHECK the VALIDITY OF THE DOCUMENTS?
Not to mention the fact that the power of determining whether an applicant is eligible or not is given to Depart of Homeland Security, rather than an automatic process as you seem to imply here.
And as a pre-emptive measure… These kids can’t invite their illegal immigrant family because INS automatically places 10 year ban on anyone who is found to have stayed in U.S. illegally longer than one month. And there’s nothing in DREAM Act that says that their family gets the impunity benefit as well.
So tell me. Are you still against giving these bright young men and women a chance at life?
Are you going to tell me they don’t speak English (and therefore won’t be able to go to college –> ineligible for Dream Act), they’re just criminals (which would disqualify them from Dream Act), and they’re going to be just drains on our society (they are in COLLEGE and getting their degrees for crying out loud)? Are you going to tell me how California is going to turn into Mexico II (even though the bill targets a very specific group of illegal immigrants with strict guidelines)?
October 24th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I see it is time for johnnyofaz to wake up. You’ve been blinded by the media and goverment propaganda. Reality is that all the illegals and those that hire illegals are killing our country.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Bright young men and women? I read a post on a pro-DREAM Act site that went like this — although I cannot reproduce the broken English — “I am 18 and just graduated high school with two babies. This is the chance I need!”
Eighteen with 2 anchors — real DREAM material!
October 24th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
@ anonyma
Nice. Way to not read the actual legislation, which requires the applicant to be accepted to college.
@ KeepOurFreedoms
You’re talking about a general amnesty (which I’m against), which is completely different from Dream Act. Read the actual legislation.