As much as I like to see media coverage of the dream act, let's keep in mind that there was also coverage back in 2003. Media coverage alone cannot shed reason to the majority of misinformed Americans that are frustrated, angry, and desperate over the way their nation is transforming. It is always foreigners and undocumented people (in the 1920s The Rise of The Coloured Empire was a popular read that raised fear and apprehension towards "pigment"), which are easier to single out and scapegoat in times of desperation.


As a recently graduated business student, I fear the worst of the depression is yet to come, and CIR seems like a long shot to sell to the American people, unless they come to their senses and see that embracing immigration and treating as a pool of labor, talent, consumption and production, is in their best interest.

Keep up the media coverage and TALKING TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW about the issue. As hard as that seems to do, lawyers, teachers, doctors, and everyday public citizens that I've talked to have been more than sympathetic to illegal immigration- especially when it's right in front of their face talking them. Of course, use discretion and listen to your gut if a person shouldn't know.