Dream Act top priority

hooper · 12-10-2008, 01:45 PM

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Barack Obama’s presidential victory is fueling widespread optimism among student groups that Congress and the next White House will endorse long-debated legislation to help undocumented students gain legal status.

These organizations see an opportunity to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, through which undocumented students who complete high school and two years of college could gain conditional legal status and eventual citizenship.
“Our strategy is to get it done in the first 100 days [of the new administration],” says Shanta Driver, spokeswoman for BAMN, the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary.

Groups such as the United States Student Association, based in Washington, D.C., also share that view. “The DREAM Act is one of our top priorities for the first 100 days,” says Angela Peoples, USSA legislative director.

Students would qualify for legal status under the DREAM Act if they came to the United States before age 16; have lived in the United States for five years; graduated from a U.S. high school or passed a high school equivalency test; have good moral character with no criminal record; and attended college or enlisted in the military for two years.

You can read the whole article here:
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/p...le_12040.shtml

VJB2 · 12-10-2008, 02:22 PM

This is great. So much more attention on DREAM than last year.

Mbluparadise · 12-10-2008, 03:45 PM

Great to hear this... love it!

DreamerGirl717 · 12-10-2008, 04:27 PM

Reading articles like that makes me feel more hopeful everyday

I think we're getting closer and closer

G-money · 12-10-2008, 04:52 PM

when they talk about good moral character is that in line with the current immigration no crimes of Moral Turpitude limit. OR is it to assume that means any kind of dent in your record (DWI 1st offense)??

daffodils · 12-10-2008, 05:37 PM

I love how almost every day, there is a new article out and it talks about DREAM or immigration reform in general, it's a huge step in the right direction from the years before.

S.Aran · 12-10-2008, 06:53 PM

This is totally unrelated.
But daffodils if thats you on that icon, youre totally gorgeous!
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