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Originally Posted by dreamerperson
Yeah, it worries me that there has been 0 input from Democratic Congress members on this fabled legislation. The GOP's actions on this are always suspect to me...
The DREAM Act itself was a narrow piece of legislation to begin with since it grants a path to legal status for only undocumented young people who pursue higher education or military service. I'm just echoing others' concerns here, but it would be really unfair to leave out everybody who would have qualified for the original DREAM Act...actually, does this KIDS Act really fool anybody?
It's clearly designed to draw attention away from addressing the other proportion who constitute the 11 million undocumented people.
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I doubt it. We see it for what it is: a ploy to avoid dealing with a path to legalization/citizenship for all of the undocumented.
What I worry about is why it's called the KIDS Act. Are they narrowing the group that would be eligible (i.e. anyone over 18 cannot benefit)? Or are they narrowing the age of entry? Because I distinctly remember them having a tantrum over the age of entry being 16. And it was rumored that Marco's version was going to limit it to those who entered before 13...
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