[THE DREAM ACT] CUNY for the DREAM Act

Nick · Nick

Title: CUNY for the DREAM Act
Author: Walter Barrientos
Publisher: The Ticker
Date Published: March 20, 2006

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CUNY for the DREAM Act
by Walter Barrientos

Each year over 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school with the hope of obtaining higher education. For many, as the first generation of college bound graduates, the opportunity to attend college and pursue their academic careers provides a detour from the poverty and oppression that immigrant families escape each year as they enter the United States. With the anti-immigrant political and cultural environment of this country, however, undocumented students not only encounter living in the permanent underclass but they must also live in constant fear of deportation.

In CUNY alone, which has a long history of providing higher education to immigrant families, there are officially 3,000 undocumented students who are educating themselves with the hope of one day being able to work or perhaps attend graduate school. These undocumented students often do not have the opportunity to advance their careers in the only country that many of them recognize as their home.
Now there is hope for undocumented students, through the passage of the DREAM act. The DREAM act (S.2075) will remove barriers for undocumented students by providing youth who have arrived in this country before the age of 16 and lived here for at least five years the opportunity to opportunity to apply for a conditional permanent residency status as long as he or she has completed at least two years of college or military service. The bill, which is currently in the Senate, needs strong community support to open the doors to equal education and opportunity for immigrant youth.

As a result, the CUNY Immigrant Student Affairs Committee was created in the University Student Senate to bring organizations and student groups of CUNY together to support the DREAM act. The committee aims to gather the support of Chancellor Goldstein and organize a movement in support of the act.

For more information and upcoming meetings, send an email to cunyimmigrantstudentcommittee@gmail.com.

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Nick · Nick

Similar article from the Hunter College, also part of the CUNY system.

http://theword.hunter.cuny.edu/news/news256.html

Pinto Bean · Pinto Bean

Hello:

This article at best is extremely misleading. CUNY does not support, nor oppose the Dream Act. A student group recognized on a campus believing in the Dream Act does not amount to and endorsement by the CUNY system.

Again, think this is where people get offended. Is the poster of this press release aware of the fact that CUNY workers have been without a contract now for almost four years? Does not CUNY have a responsiblity to take care of their own first before endorsing a bill that comes with a very expensive price tag? Has this student group taken a stand in support of the CUNY workers in their union negotiations with CUNY?

Pinto Bean

Nick · Nick

You are welcome to head over to cosaonline.org and discuss the meaning of the word "support" there.
This website is dedicated to working towards making the DREAM Act a reality for students that deserve it.

This thread is now locked and please do read forum rules on trolling.
The CoSA community has been shaken by discussion such as the one you are try to fire up and it is distracting from what we are trying to accomplish.

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