Pass the DREAM Act! (Don't let congress forget DREAMers in the new Immigration Policy)!
petitions.whitehouse.govWith a few seconds you could help 3 million children
The DREAM Act is an act that gives aspiring immigrant children brought to the United States through no fault of their own a chance to become citizens by either serving two years in the military or by completing four years of higher education.
Given the opportunity for educational equality, over 3 million young immigrants can meet their dreams and better contribute to their local and national community. Everyone dreams, and that’s why we must pass the DREAM Act!
My students have been working hard putting together a petition to have Congress include the DREAM Act in their immigration reform. Signing this petition would mean a lot to them, and to the 3 million children of immigrants and undocumented workers whose lives would change for the better were they given the opportunity for affordable higher education and a path to citizenship.
Please reblog and signal boost and, most importantly, sign the petition!
also, I’m a little (a lot) concerned about the new executive order about immigration.
Everyone keeps saying that “this is not a path to citizenship or permanent residency”, like that’s a good thing.
So what’s going to happen when someone’s two years are up? When the work authorization expires? If this isn’t a path to receiving some other, more trustworthy papers, what exactly is the undocumented worker going to do? Go back to being undocumented? After two years of living openly?
Like, is this just a cheap ploy to get Latino votes, or is this actually going to help people? Are we going to forget all about these kids after Obama wins the election?
“The only Dream Act worth passing is simple. It tells high schoolers who want to make something of themselves, for the good of the country, to go ahead. Join the military or go to college and take your place as full-fledged citizens in the only country you know. That Republicans reject this shows how far they have strayed from American ideals of assimilation and welcome.”
—A Dream Act Without the Dream - NYTimes.comDulce Matuz, a DREAMer and undocumented student, makes Time Magazine's 2012 100 most influential people
time.comAn undocumented Latina confronted with legal barriers to pursuing her engineering dream, she chose to fight for the right to contribute to the country she has called home since she was young.
As president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, Dulce promotes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who, like her, were brought to the U.S. before they were 16, attend college or serve in the military and are of good moral character.
Dulce takes on powerful opponents with grace and conviction, saying, “We are Americans, and Americans don’t give up.”
Read more at Time.com.
“Students paying out-of-state tuition attending California schools filed a lawsuit in the Yolo County State Superior Court (Martinez v. Regents, No. CV 05-2064), claiming that education officials violated the IIRIRA by offering in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students while continuing to charge U.S. citizens out-of-state tuition rates. The complaint was filed against the University of California, California State University, and state community college systems, who offered in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students following Assembly Bill 540, enacted in October 2001. On October 6, 2006, Judge Thomas E. Warriner upheld the schools' decision to grant eligibility to unauthorized immigrant students for in-state tuition. In September, 2008, a California appeals court reinstated the lawsuit and returned it for consideration in Yolo County Superior Court. In November, 2010, the California Supreme Court upheld the state’s method for providing in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students and ruled it did not conflict with federal law. An appeal was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 6, 2011, the Supreme Court declined to review the ruling.”
—This actually makes me rage. If the undocumented immigrant resides in-state and qualifies for the Dream Act (which requires five years of residence in the US prior to enactment of the act), then who the hell are you to try and hike their tuition?
So Me ft. Glenn Gretzky
E.R.A.E.R.A. - So Me ft. Glenn Gretzky
Check out E.R.A.’s new single for his upcoming album The Dream Act. The song is produced by Glenn Gretzky.
What's Going on in Pandora's California: The Dream Act Clears the Assembly
sacbee.comI’ve been a California native my entire life, but I never fully realized the tensions with Mexico until I moved to San Diego area.
The Mexican border is unlike others because, for one, you have a semi second world country set against the self proclaimed super power of the first world. That in itself proves to be problematic.
I have some very pacifist views and believe that the key to creating peace is education. The whole argument of “they’re illegals who are taking our jobs and we’re paying for them to go to school and they don’t pay into anything!” is a broken record in my state. That statement isn’t entirely true because a majority of the migrant workers take jobs that other people don’t want. Many of them would like to be legal immigrants if it was a easier process, but there are still a small few who rather remain illegal because they do get some breaks. However, they do pay taxes when they purchase items. It may not be much, but it’s something.
So, the Dream Act. Essentially what it does is allow for illegal immigrants to be eligible for financial aide for higher education. A majority of the kids who will benefit from this have grown up in California. Undocumented, yes. However, there are so many benefits to this act.
Why I’m okay with paying for illegal immigrant’s college education is because I believe it will get a majority of these kids off the streets and that gang violence will go down. With education, they’ll probably even go through the process of citizenship. They’ll receive a college degree which will serve as motivation and drive even more people to the work force which could potentially boost the economy.
My opinion may be the unpopular one, but it’s the same opinion that supports higher taxes for universal health care and free college. Because I believe those are humane things that every citizen (or not) should have.
“It’s important because it represents one of the most important arenas in the ongoing struggle for civil rights in this country and particularly for those of us who have a history of struggling for civil rights—I’m speaking very specifically about the African-American community—it is our responsibility to support.”
—Angela Davis on the Dream Act
The media deems it a “Latino” issue, but it’s not. It’s a moral one. And we have an obligation to demand it.
(This is much overdue) Well, well, well. It seems that after all the cuts and dizziness, all the sleepless nights crying in my mom’s arms, all the temptation to be blissfully stupid, emotionless days where I felt like a giant question mark (which pretty much describes my entire youth, minus the good days)…things actually turned out alright. I have the option of scholarships. I will probably go to college. Might be a shitty one that I can afford but hey, a degree is a degree, who the fuck cares at this point, ey, Dreamers? Everything counts. I finally feel as if I actually exist. And while I’m appreciating things, I must express my inexplainable happiness towards the fact that The XX is coming. I’ve been checking to see if they were coming for almost 3 years. I introduced all my friends to them. They associate The XX with me. Every meaningful event in my highschool life has an XX song to go along with it. The first time I rode a public bus, the first time I rode a metro, first time I dyed my hair, when I discovered I loved film and wanted to be a film student, when I found a group of people I felt I truly belonged in, the first time I cuddled with a guy I really liked, and so much more. I’m going, and I will cry so much. To conclude, I actually feel okay. (And none of you motherfuckers are gonna cause even a blink of an eye.)
