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Originally Posted by withchemicals
Although I do wish more DREAMers would qualify, a lot of what's said in this article is true. A 15 year old immigrant is no stranger to his home country, and lowering the age cap and the minimum age of entry requirement would get much more support. This is all on principle, and the ideal DREAMer who truly doesn't fit in his home country would be below 10 years at entry and below 30.
Then again, I do wish for the largest amount of DREAMers to qualify, so I'm a bit torn.
Again, out before angry posters.
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I agree with excluding some older kids but not on the grounds you have pointed out.
I think they should bar anyone who came here after age 16 from being eligible for any future DREAM Act-like legislation...The way I see it, some of us were toddlers when we came here while a kid in his/her late teens has a choice to come here illegally or not. Besides, some of those kids like one of my cousins did could apply for a student visa and ultimately adjust their status after graduating if they have a job opening. Most of us however, didn't have that option, hell most of us didn't know we were illegal until it was too late to do anything to change our life...I didn't find out until i started looking at college apps my sophomore year and i couldn't cough up a ssn so yeah if something like this made it onto a piece of legislation it would suck for some but it would help most of us...the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...