If he can get into Mexico and cross the border with others and then if the DREAM ACT passes, all he will have to do is prove long term residency with something valid like elementary school records from the state in which he attended elementary school.

- just being stilly. I am sorry for the position you've been placed in. I am just one person, but I am one person among many who are actively persuing avenues of change in our current immigration policies so that family members can be more readily united.

Sometimes we have to persue a course of action that is not completely in tune with other values we hold - at that point it becomes a matter of individual priority.

While not my only perspective on the matter or when I advocate for immigration reform, I still often site the fact that homosexuals are totally denied immigration privileges that heterosexuals have, for no other reason than they are not allowed to be married and benefit from current immigration law (even though it is less than adequate in its current condition.)

So as long as I advocate for immigration reform anyway, I include all the issues - even the homosexual point of view. If they can't marry and reap the benefits that exist under marriage laws, then there's no reason NOT to include homosexuals as new laws are reformed.

It would be my pleasure to see a happy reunion for you with your loved one. I'll keep working on it.

move to Argentina... they support homo marriage...

its not an issue of pro or anit homosexual marriage, marital visas are just one of MANY that immigrants can apply for

I am one person among many who are actively pursuing "Illegal" family members be united.

You got it!
Report, Deport!
Reunite the Illegals with their families in their homelands!

actually, it is not blinding prejudice to recognize the DIRECT responsibility of PARENTS to protect their children(even before the community) and not place them in harms way either legally or physically

If I commit grand larceny and am caught, I am responsible for my children having to loose their home and go into foster care,,,,and I can hardly gripe or be 'mad' at the government for not giving them the same kind of 'protection' that I , as a parent, should have been concerned with before deciding to break the law

on second thought, lets have a statute like with other crimes

if you have managed for ten years to reside without getting caught,,,you should be permitted to go back to your HOME(wherever you were before breaking the law) without penalty and apply without penalty for citizenship BEHIND all those who chose to follow the law from jump,,,

children are resilient, they can make anyplace a home so long as they are loved,,,

on second thought, lets have a statute like with other crimes

if you have managed for ten years to reside without getting caught,,,you should be permitted to go back to your HOME(wherever you were before breaking the law) without penalty and apply without penalty for citizenship BEHIND all those who chose to follow the law from jump,,,

children are resilient, they can make anyplace a home so long as they are loved,,,

In that case we would have no need for all the current child protective services or welfare programs or the laws and agencies extending from those laws that are meant to protect children REGARDLESS or even despite the poor choices of thier parents.

And abortion would a totally acceptable action - because without the laws, and the agencies and the charities etc, we would be better without those little unwanted waifs anyway.

Would you agree?

Again.
If you want a topic on abortion, please, start your own topic.

Report Illegals and the people who hire them 1-866-DHS-2-ICE

thank you

my husband can also not come under the same requirement that someone with more income can simply because he doesnt have adequate income,,,,there are many types of visas and I dont quite agree that each type has to apply to EVERY persons situation,,,

homosexuals cant obtain a marriage visa but there are plenty others they can obtain,,,,and technically they could marry to enter the states and then divorce so even that is not an issue,,,that their preference doesnt meet the regulations is not, in my eyes, an issue of inequality

I believe the immigration laws are fairly written and I understand their guidelines, I just feel they should be applied EQUALLY

Support The CLEAR Act (H.R.2406) clarifies state and local officers' authority to detain illegal aliens and requires the federal government to respond to state and local requests to pick up and remove the illegal aliens.

Introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on May 14, 2009, the CLEAR Act:

* increases SCAAP funds for communities that work with, and not against, federal immigration enforcement efforts, and recognizes the important role local governments’ play in securing our homeland;
* provides recognition of inherent state and local law enforcement authority to help enforce immigration law, but leaves it up to individual agencies to determine how big a role they will play;
* improves information sharing with the federal government;
* sets requirements for the federal government to expeditiously remove criminal aliens; and
* increases federal resources for local governments that choose to assist in immigration enforcement.

Again. The Dream Act will just make mass Amnesty for more than 20+Million Illegals that much easier. Fight it.
Call the numbers listed.
Let the Reps know their job is at risk if they support this.
Report Illegals and the people who hire them 1-866-DHS-2-ICE

Support The CLEAR Act (H.R.2406) clarifies state and local officers' authority to detain illegal aliens and requires the federal government to respond to state and local requests to pick up and remove the illegal aliens.

Introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on May 14, 2009, the CLEAR Act:

* increases SCAAP funds for communities that work with, and not against, federal immigration enforcement efforts, and recognizes the important role local governments’ play in securing our homeland;
* provides recognition of inherent state and local law enforcement authority to help enforce immigration law, but leaves it up to individual agencies to determine how big a role they will play;
* improves information sharing with the federal government;
* sets requirements for the federal government to expeditiously remove criminal aliens; and
* increases federal resources for local governments that choose to assist in immigration enforcement.

Yes, but you don't take the analogy far enough. When a single parent or parents become incapable of caring for their children, are the children sent to another country? Are they sent to forced labor camps? Are those children considered orphans to be put up for adoption without any oversight as to the quality of the home the child would be place in?

NO

In this country, every effort is made to accommodate the best interests of the child. If a family member is able and willing to take the child but is incapable financially of that support – once the family member has been otherwise qualified, then many resources are made available to assist in making the accommodation possible. Any other course is of action required is seriously considered from the viewpoint of the best interests of the child.

BUT

There is still more to consider. Our Constitution is was created on the basis of ‘human validity’. That which gives a human value and thus the inherent rights of any individual, was the first consideration written into our Constitution which has become an endemic property of our laws. These inherent rights are not designated solely to American citizens – they encompass any human at any time they are on American soil or otherwise protected by agencies of the American people.

Above all, WE THE PEOPLE have chosen to extend greater protections of children by incorporating specific laws, agencies, and entitlements to aid in their defense when their defense, sometimes to the point of removing a child from its natural parents.

It doesn’t make sense to think that American children alone are privileged in all the world to such human rights.

Finally, we at a disadvantage, because many of these children were born here – that automatically makes them American citizens. The problem is that a great many immigrant children, born here or not, lack the documentation to prove their birthright.

The DREAM Act would:
Allow for the status of an unauthorized alien to that of provisional permanent resident - conditional to certain terms and restrictions.
The status change provides extended avenues through which these students may gain access to resources allowing for a more equitable opportunity of attaining higher education. Resources gained would include, lower in-state tuition rates as compliant with residency specifications of the Act, access to ‘private’ student loans, internships and work-study programs and students services offered by the college. Also included is the ability to attain legal employment to help themselves, and the right to further status adjustment to full citizenship upon meeting all requirements.

In this way, kids who has no choice and are being denied choice, are treated as INDIVIDUALS entitled to their own human rights. It must be understood that these students risk a lot when they enter into this agreement. Individual are making themselves known to every legal authority, and if a person (given this choice as a human and an adult) does not live up to the behavioral expectations of the agreement, or any other part of the agreement, that person is easy enough to find and deport.

No other course of citizenship requires the rigorous mental and physical aspects that are inclusive in the DREAM ACT. I find it difficult to even imagine the kind of stress such this college student would be under.

Those who succeed in meeting all the requirements of the DREAM ACT will be allowed to become full citizens. Personally, I think that any person who would subject themselves to such a rigorous and stressful ordeal just to gain an education “worthy of citizenship” – should be a welcome addition. Those who fail are illegal by their own action and not that of another.

WHAT - no mention of the abortion issue that is also connected to the National Defense Authorization Act???

Well, I guess it's about how people prioritize their prejudices.

BEFORE picking up that phone and supporting this filibuster -
it might be a good idea to see what ELSE is in the NDAA, there is a reason it is often passed with little adversity. The bill is about our National Defense. It discusses finances regaring research and development and implementation of technology. It discusses issues which would lead to contracts in the public sector. It's about treatment of the personnel and veterans and about authority and who should have it, regarding finances and legal issues within the military and so much more.

The DREAM ACT is a recurrent bill - it has been posted as a new issue in every Congressional Session for years.

In all those years the various bills that have fallen under the catch all term DREAM ACT have failed to gain public awarness on any other level besides as an amnesty program.

The truth is, if the general public had bothered to review those bills objectively, instead of listening to the prejudical trash such news sources as the OP provide, this country, most likely, would have supported Immigration Reform almost ten years ago.

Instead, much of the media has continued to serve up prejudice for dessert without offering a main course of critical analysis of the bill and immigration.

Still, it seems apauling that the elite and educated leaders of this nation would filibuster a bill meant to support, enhance, and protect our military and its operations, because of group based prejudice in more minor matters that they refused to face individually to start with.

I suppose that's why the article did not mention the bill about abortion on military bases around the world. It's because the issue of abortion is not necessarily an issue that invokes preducial views.

As the OP article stands, it serves to invoke the prejudice of people much better without the abortion issue.

The DREAM ACT, is not about unearned amnisty, it is about helping those children who have resided in the United Stated for most of their lives to 'earn' a higher degree of education.

Since this IS the only culture those kids, and young adults know, this is home to them. Working hard to support their own educational efforts and completing that goal will make them productive and worthy citizens.

So the DREAM ACT is about granting enough equality to those young adults, so they can WORK their way through higher education. The act does allow them access to Federal Student loan, grand or scholarship programs. And the path to citizenship is gradual and dependent of how they behave duriong that time period. It is not and EASY course to follow.

What the DREAM ACT does is release the student from workign restrictions so they can support themselves as they study. While immigrant students must be accepted into a college program using the exact same procedures of every other student, the DREAM ACT mandates those colleges to offer those students the SAME residency discounts that all other in-state studens receive. A student can prove in state residency with a history in elementary school.

These people (often born here)had no say in and often do not even realize they are immigrants until they are much older. This is their home and many want to be good citizens and gain a higher education.

By denying these people the ability to get that education, to become a legal citizen, all this country does is create self-fulfilling prophacy situation. All the stereotypical charateristics about immigrants will only be reinforced because those people will remain here, will be low income or live in poverty and pay little in taxes - unless they can persue their own dream of a higher education.

That is the DREAM ACT (in a nut shell).

If he can get into Mexico and cross the border with others and then if the DREAM ACT passes, all he will have to do is prove long term residency with something valid like elementary school records from the state in which he attended elementary school.

- just being stilly. I am sorry for the position you've been placed in. I am just one person, but I am one person among many who are actively persuing avenues of change in our current immigration policies so that family members can be more readily united.

Sometimes we have to persue a course of action that is not completely in tune with other values we hold - at that point it becomes a matter of individual priority.

While not my only perspective on the matter or when I advocate for immigration reform, I still often site the fact that homosexuals are totally denied immigration privileges that heterosexuals have, for no other reason than they are not allowed to be married and benefit from current immigration law (even though it is less than adequate in its current condition.)

So as long as I advocate for immigration reform anyway, I include all the issues - even the homosexual point of view. If they can't marry and reap the benefits that exist under marriage laws, then there's no reason NOT to include homosexuals as new laws are reformed.

It would be my pleasure to see a happy reunion for you with your loved one. I'll keep working on it.