November 21, 2024

2 thoughts on “DREAM Act Fight

  1. I agree. I think that passing the DREAM Act would at least be a step in the right direction toward comprehensive immigration reform. People need to start realizing that the deport-all and open-the-flood-gates philosophies are both incredibly flawed and that the immigration issue is more complicated than that. JPMITB labels this post as “money in the bank.”

  2. You’ve got to remember the other part of the Act, though: it will allow illegal aliens to become citizens if they serve two years in the military. I’m not sure I want to entrust our nation’s security to people who are merely using it as a means to gain citizenship.

    I’m not totally against the education part of the DREAM Act, but there are negative side-effects to pursuing this course of action. If the bill is passed, many people will go to college not because they are pursuing a career that requires a college education, but because they want to become citizens. We’ll have a repeat of what happened after the GI Bill: many people will go to college who don’t need to, tuition rates will increase, and useless majors will proliferate.

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