Dream Act rewards illegal behavior
Cynthia Tucker's column saying the Dream Act is designed to serve the national interest left out some important information.
The Dream Act is just bad policy. Providing in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens amounts to giving them a taxpayer-financed education unavailable to U.S. citizens.
It repeals a 1996 federal law that prohibits any state from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless the state also offers in-state tuition rates to all U.S. citizens. The Dream Act is a gift that will cost taxpayers a great deal of money at a time when tuition rates are rising across the country.
Many families are mortgaging their homes to give a college education to their children. If this country has extra tax dollars, how about helping American families?
The illegal alien who applies for this program is immediately rewarded with "conditional" lawful permanent resident (green card) status, which than can be converted to a non-conditional green card.
The non-conditional status lets aliens acquire green cards for their parents. The parents are the ones who brought the children here illegally in the first place. In this way, it is a backdoor amnesty for millions of these illegal aliens' parents.
The Dream Act directly rewards illegal behavior. You've got to ask Sen. Dick Durbin who he represents? He keeps voting for amnesty, keeps reintroducing his Dream Act. He is completely out of touch with American taxpayers. We want this invasion to stop and he wants to keep rewarding it.
Next election, let your voice be heard. United States senators should uphold the laws, not try finding ways to work around them.
David White, co-director
Association For
Legal Americans
Elgin