[falconmaster]

I know its a political hot potato but Amadu, a kid from New York was a FIRST kid and he was widely supported by the FIRST community. We even named our robot Virgina's DREAM and mentioned our support for the DREAM Act during the Chairman's presentation and it did not seem to affect the outcome of the selection. If Chief Delphi feels this is inappropriate then I will understand if they remove it. We just think its wrong to punish kids for what their parents did. We are against illegal immigration, but the kids did not make the choice. This seems as controversial as leaving the boys at home so we could provide our girls with the total FIRST experience. Again we felt it was the tight thing to do. Part of CD is to draw out civilized discussion about topics that affect kids that are in FIRST and with over 650,000 kids undocumented in the US. Its a fair bet that there are many on FIRST teams. I have been enjoying your posts and replies on CD for years. I understand your point and I will let CD make the decision. Thanks Lil Lav