The Oregonian--
The Portland city council was so inspired by a film about illegal youth, that they passes a resolution Wednesday supporting a federal proposal known as the dream act that would offer residency to most of the students who came to the United States at the age of 15 or younger.
The idea for the resolution was born after Commissioner Nick Fish and his senior policy advisor, Carmen Caballero Rubio, attended last month's screening of "Papers," a Portland-produced documentary about the plight of youth who turn 18 and become deportable, cannot drive or work, and are ineligible for in-state tuition or financial aid.
Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogen plans to introduce a similar resolution at the end of October.
this also backs up the reason that we should enforce our borders so that children are NOT faced with this problem solely because un-responsible adults decided to break the law and enter a country illegally, thus placing their children in to this situation in the first place.
as always the kids suffer.
I will have to agree with the idea of allowing kids of illegals who have been here for a long time to be legal, and I can even agree to allow their parents under the conditions of the INS laws to be given green cards. That means that they will have to learn English. sorry, but that is one of the current requirements.
I do NOT agree that legalization should be given out freely to those who broke the law by crossing the border and being rewarded simply because they did not get caught.
it is a problem that is only going to get worse if we as a country do not do anything to get it under control.
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