House Passes Dream Act

Wed night, the House passed the Dream Act, which would allow for illegal immigrants, who came here as children, to have a pathway to citizenship.

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Of course, this article plays upon the heart strings by mentioning a poor immigrant who desperately needs this act to pass through the Senate. He's just a struggling illegal who worked his way up, by roughing it in a restaurant...and people say the media isn't liberal? You have to read it for yourself to believe it.

"I don't know how to describe it. I'm really excited about it right now," said Hong, whose mother brought him to the United States from South Korea when he was 11. "It's going to be really tough in the Senate, but now that the House has passed it, it's going to bring a little more pressure.

The Senate vote could happen as early as Friday morning, but the bill faces a bigger hurdle there because it must get a filibuster-proof majority of at least 60 votes. 

Hong, a political science major, left a final exam study session with nervous excitement, trying to study but aware that the congressional proceedings will have a huge impact on his life.

"The Dream Act is the only solution for me right now," Hong said. "This is a really critical week. If the Dream Act fails this year, it's going to be really tough the following year and the following year."

The 21-year-old played varsity basketball at Alameda High School, worked under the table at a local restaurant to raise money for college and became a high honors student and student body president at Laney College before transferring to UC Berkeley. When he graduates, however, he will be unable to get a professional job, and faces a constant risk of deportation, he said.

Beneficiaries would have to be under 30 years old to qualify and must have arrived in the country before their 16th birthday. According to the House version voted on Wednesday, they will also pay $2,525 in fees for the privilege of legal residency -- $525 to apply, and $2,000 five years later to extend the conditional visa.

Basically we are just rewarding people who broke the law. I realize they were children and, it's their parents that did this but, I think they should take that up with their parents, and not the government.

The Dream Act appears to be DOA for the Senate. Thank heavens but, lets not rest easy. Republicans have been known to be turncoats. In this case, their are 8 Republican swine in the House:

The 8 illegal alien bailout Republicans are:

Cao
Castle
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Djou
Ehlers
Inglis
Ros-Lehtinen

These people should be ashamed of themselves. I'd say the democrats should have shame but, they lost their shame back in the 60's. There's no hope for them.