Originally Posted by gebodupa

I'm not saying that CIR people don't deserve their papers. As long as my family finds some way to legalize their status, it makes no difference to me if the reform gets passed as a whole.

What I am saying is that the 2 groups, i.e. the CIRers and Dreamers, are inherently different and the only thing that connects us is our status, or actually lack there of.

Let's face it, for every well-educated Dreamer, there are 10 CIRers who can barely speak English and never fully assimilated into the culture. Hell, even some of my relatives are an example of that, and most of them are US citizens already. Also, whether people want to admit it or not, a decent portion does consist of people who draw the biggest criticism for CIR: the single, uneducated, unskilled workers who do not pay taxes and the majority of whose wages gets sent back home to support their families. It is their choice but they also have to be responsible for their actions.

While our cause could be considered humanitarian for a lot of reasons, the CIR will be done out of purely economic and bureaucratic necessity. I have nothing against those people, and I would not want the Dream Act to be passed at their peril, but to blindly support CIR, because people seem to think that the 2 groups are somehow united in this fight, is completely ridiculous.