Originally Posted by OptimistinDenial

I can see your point. Still, to pin your family's flaws into a population of more than five millions is prejudice. I am sorry if it sounds mean. Mediocrity is not an attribute that only exists within the undocumented population. It is an attribute of humanity.

I have met many dreamers who scrambled to get their GEDs and now are using their papers to work in fast food restaurants and cash the welfare checks they receive from their children. Meanwhile, many aged out dreamers and other undocumented immigrants see their degrees rot away.

It seems many dreamers believe that if other sub-groups of undocumented immigrants weren't here, they would be accepted by the law, the government and society. While it is true that many citizens are concerned with the rule of law and national security, let us realized that some are just racists and xenophobic and will hate your butt no matter what.

It was more obvious during the Bush administration, when Republicans convinced the country that everyone was okay but undocumented Mexican men. That was the basis to create really rash laws even for permanent legal residents. And everyone was cool with my dad being harassed until the police started to harass everyone Mexican or not.

More important than me being illegal is the fact that I am a taxpayer and the government took 15% of my hard earned money to waste time. Obama is going to vetoed anything that is less than what he already has. We have old ass bridges, brittle roads, a fragile recovering economy, education reform, climate change, finance reform, everything needs fixing. Many of you are so young but I'm old and survived the Bush administration with the needless wars and pointless tax breaks. They are extremist in their point of view and somewhat that became the norm. Not to say that some dems are not extremist but we should at least be in the middle. Back in the way, we called them crazies and move on to get shit done. Nowadays, they are stopping the growth of our nation and as long as we have our apps running fine, we don't care. And I'm gonna stop now because a)I'm rambling and b) I'm ranting.