To the DREAM'ers,
Over the last 5 years we have had the incredible honor of being able to report and comment on the vitally important DREAM movement. Nothing has come close to the inspiration that you have given us almost weekly and sometimes daily through your courageous efforts. So first of all: gracias.
As veterans of many movements it is safe to say that we have only once before seen anything come close to the passion, vision, and just plain strategic smarts that you have displayed over the course of the past few years. You are to be commended and thanked and, if we may, hugged.
While today we all experienced a loss, we understand that in the course of this battle there may be many be losses but we only need to win once. In most cases we would be cynical of the prospects of a grassroots David taking on the Goliath of the US Senate but we are not in this case becuase of you.
You the DREAM'ers and your comited allies are the X factor in this battle. The worn and bloated Senate cannot forever withstand the power that you bring to the arena. The millioinare branch of our govenment will be eventually either be overcome by your vision or will fail to stop you from their lack of it.
Today we recommit our resources to your struggle not only for you but for us as well becuase we know we need you to succeed in order for us to create a more perfect union, to construct a better country, to secure a more prosperous future, and to build a more united familia.
Your committed allies,
Mario Solis-Marich
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It's just wrong.
Shame on the Senate. And especially shame on Tester, Baucus, Hagen, Pryor and Ben Nelson.
Try that for following the legal process!
Odds are, someone who's willing to, in many cases, risk their lives to come here so they can 1)work in the fields on 100+ degree valley days, or 2)clean rooms in the kinds of motels where bodily fluids probably represent a health hazard, or 3)mow the lawns of people who are too lazy or busy to do it themselves won't qualify. So all you people who say they should do it the "right" way, please don't insult our intelligence. It doesn't exist, and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.
I recently met a 20 year old woman who came from the Philippines with her parents at age 5.
She is attending a College and wants to become an architect. (Her portfolio is amazing). She has no SS# (of course) and is therefore is limited in what schools she attends, can't get a well paying job, can't get a drivers license, etc. Needless to say she's incredibly distressed. And btw her parents blue collar jobs are funding her education. She obviously can't apply for a loan for her studies.
She told me how America is her country, has never returned to the Philippines, and never will.
Why doesn't the Congress start with these young people and draft (Dream Act) guidelines that apply to the children that have been here to date. This could serve as a starting place to begin an immigration policy that is based on how our Nation was formed. We are a nation of immigrants.