Pass DREAM Act: Immigrant kids should repay 'loan'

Read this whole opinion piece, there is some amusing sarcasm here and quotes from various people who commented on his blog posting. Passing the DREAM Act is good economics. We educated these kids, now we should help them become tax paying citizens. - - Donna Poisl

by E. J. Montini -

We should stop visualizing the children of illegal immigrants as human beings. It only confuses us.

Particularly when we are talking about children who were not born in this country but who were carried across the border as infants or toddlers and who have grown up as what some have called "non-citizen Americans."

If we look at such children as human beings we tend to get all emotional and divide the kids into one of two groups: victims or criminals. I found this out last week after writing a blog for azcentral.com about the DREAM Act, which was introduced last week in Congress.

Under this proposal, undocumented immigrant children could obtain citizenship if they came to the U.S. before they turned 16, are younger than 30, have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, have graduated from high school or passed an equivalency exam, have "good moral character" and either attend college or enlist in the military for two years.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.