DREAM Act in Congress

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Say what you will about illegal immigration and all, but I think that giving teenagers access to a future in science and technology is a good thing.

While I agree that giving teenagers access to Sience and Technology is a good thing, there is a right way of doing things and a wrong way. I personally believe legislation such as DREAM is the wrong way.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

You may say the parents or whatever are freeloaders / job-stealers / whatever insult you want to throw at a large diverse group of Americans, but when you want to punish a child for their parent's "mistake" and deny them these opportunities, that's the opposite of inspiration.

I do not recall seeing in this thread the words "freeloader" , "Jobstealer" , or any other insult (nor would I use those phrases when talking about immagrants, illegal or not). Please refrain from strawman arguments and please do not try and polarize the issues here, these are very serious issues and should be discussed as such.

My issue with DREAM and other legislation of its type is that it rewards bad behavior ... in this case abandoning children and breaking up families. Many of these childeren are abandon because the parents believe that they cannot provide for their childeren as well as the welfare system of the US can, so they abandon their childeren here ... knowing that they will be fed, medically treated, educated, allowed to hold jobs, and now ... thanks to DREAM ... have a chance at becoming a citizen of the US ... and all the parents have to do is illegally enter this country and abandon their child.

The US government is a poor mother and a poor father, and promoting the distruction of the family unit is even worse ... and that is what DREAM and the other associated legislation does, whether it intends to or not.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

My hat's off to team 842.

My hat is also off to team 842. They are one of the teams that truely inspires me, as does Ledge. I just happen to disagree with them on this issue.