DACA for Wall - Page 4

If you think CIR will pass for a spending bill, you must be dreaming, my fellow dreamer.

mark my words, only thing thats ever gonna pass is daca legalization and thats it.

lmao.

This nigga.

I believe you had to be 30 or younger one June 15th 2012 to qualify for DACA. If they change that to 36 so that the older dreamers are covered as well and then give us 5 (or 10) year EAD's with no restriction on travel until we get the GC's. I believe many people would be OK with that. And honestly that would be the most reasonable thing to do... However, we are just talking among ourselves as usual...

7. The Dreamers have been a destructive wedge issue.

This relates to my point about how some immigrants who are offered ambiguous legalization, rather than universal access to citizenship being offered to everyone under predictable conditions. The Dreamers are the splinter group artfully deployed to silence the demand for rights for all other immigrants.

The concept of the Dreamers arose in the early 2000s (Sen. Dick Durbin was an early proponent), once the 1996 legislation had had time to do its work. Instead of welcoming the immigrant, as we had done through all our history, we would welcome only the Dreamer. Anyone not certifiably a Dreamer would not belong.

Who exactly is a Dreamer? A Dreamer is the postmodern version of a slave, embodying the idea of the pliant immigrant with which we seem most comfortable. The Dreamer is brought here against his will (evoking the rhetoric of slavery), yet harbors no resentment toward the white majority who have enslaved his people. The Dreamer is not expected to mind that his parents may not be recognized as people, even if they have present in the community for decades. The Dreamer willingly pays for college out of pocket, putting up with all the obstacles strewn by anti-immigrant states, particularly in the South and Southwest. The Dreamer is unashamedly invested in the capitalist dream that he or she will have to purchase, as a consumer but not a citizen. The Dreamer is expected to be grateful for grudging symbols of identity, a temporary work permit or a driver’s license. The Dreamer begs to be granted the least token of recognition in return for partaking in our collective dream.

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What about elderly and disabled people, the creative and artistic, the bohemian and nonconformist, all those not employed in the professions that neoliberalism elevates? What about the parents of Dreamers? What about those who have committed any transgressions? They don’t count as Dreamers;, they are “criminal aliens.”

The Dreamer is seen as accepting exclusion as a principle in return for being made a provisional part of our nationhood. No doubt Trump will use the Dreamers to split the rest from this small slice, to whom he might grant minimum concessions on the road to ending legal immigration. The Dreamers would be expected to go along, because all comprehensive immigration reform bills, former President Barack Obama’s included, have separated the “good” from the “bad.”


Thoughts?

Who wrote that? That's academic writing at its worst. It screams: I'm sitting comfortably at my desk from a priviledged position arrogantly judging and BS'ing about something I don't understand at the most basic level. Ugh. Mind you, I don't have anything against academia (I just got a PhD and plan to stay in academia). But this is so ugh ugh ugh.

This.

Do you not understand that our best chance and other immigrants (illegal immigrants) is a wall for DACA path to citizenship like the USA act. This way we can help our parents or siblings....