Students advocate at Tempe MU for education immigration reform

It is good to see university students getting involved in the process. If everyone works for it, maybe we can get immigration reform and the DREAM act is a good first step. - - Donna Poisl

By: Griselda Nevarez

ASU students will gather outside the Tempe campus Memorial Union this week encouraging passersby to support the DREAM Act by calling their congressional representatives.

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, introduced to Congress on Thursday by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would put undocumented students on the path to legalization. It was first introduced in 2001 in the House of Representatives and the Senate but fell eight votes short of the 60 necessary to proceed to a debate on the Senate floor in 2007.

Durbin said in a press release that undocumented students should be given a chance to contribute to the nation’s future.

“These children are tomorrow’s doctors, nurses, teachers, policemen, firefighters, soldiers and senators, and we should give them the opportunity to reach their full potential,” Durbin said.

If passed, the DREAM Act would give undocumented students six years to complete two years of either satisfactory military service or postsecondary education. Upon completion, they could apply for legal residency.
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