Obama and the Dream Act: Assimilation or Privilege?

Imagine this…you have a son playing for the U.S. Soccer team. You travel to Los Angeles to watch him in a game against Mexico.

You walk into the Rose Bowl…and it’s as if you suddenly entered a stadium in Mexico City. You and the rest of the American fans are vastly outnumbered. The American Team’s goalkeeper is being bombarded with a chanted obscenity.  And when the National Anthem is played, it is dishonored with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls.

Estimates are, that there were about 80,000 Mexico fans among the announced crowd of 93,420.

They cheered their team on to a 4-2 victory over our country’s soccer team that night.

According to coach Bob Bradley:

Obviously … the support that Mexico has on the night like tonight makes it a home game for them. It’s part of something we have to deal with on the night.

The atmosphere was overwhelming. The night was filled with air horns and “Ole” chants, backed up with a roar from the crowd that sounded like a low flying jet that began at the “tailgate” party in the parking lot hours before the game and continued for hours afterward.

The Mexican fans continued the celebration throughout the postgame trophy ceremony, booing the U.S. team one final time, as they were announced.

According to one fan:

We’re not booing the country, we’re booing the team. There is a big difference.

Yeah, right.

Do you remember, how, right before the Christmas Holidays, the Senate tried to pass the Drean Act, but failed in their attempt?  No worries.  President Barack Hussein Obama passed it by Executive Order last Friday, once again bypassing the wishes of the American people and ruling by diktat.

From Greg Guignat, the Conservative reporter for the Phoenix edition of examiner.com:

The Obama administration memo from the John Morton, Director of I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) directs I.C.E. agents now to use “prosecutorial discretion”with regard to enforcing immigration laws.

Director Morton says that Obama Administration policy directs border patrol agents not to enforce immigration laws: “When ICE favorably exercises prosecutorial discretion, it essentially decides not to assert the full scope of the enforcement authority available to the agency.”

You read that right. According to the Obama administration “favorable” enforcement means NOT enforcing the law!

According to one of the first press reports to break this important story, the new Obama policy is cut and dry: “federal immigration officials do not have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, or even if they are pregnant or nursing.”

Per whitehouse.gov, the original DREAM Act contained the following qualifiers:

Young people must meet several requirements in order to qualify for the conditional status it will provide them. These requirements include entering the country when they were under 16 years old, proving they have continuously lived in the U.S. for at least 5 years and graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED; demonstrating their good moral character; proving they have not committed any crimes that would make them inadmissible to the country. Only then can they obtain a conditional status for a limited period of time.

After their six year conditional status, these same individuals will need to meet additional requirements to move on to the next phase of this process. Specifically, they must have attended college or served in the U.S. military for at least 2 years, and once again, pass criminal background checks, and demonstrate good moral character. If young people are unable to fulfill these requirements, they will lose their legal status and be subject to deportation.

Only applies to individuals who entered the U.S. as children. According to DREAM Act’s provisions, beneficiaries must have entered the United States when they were under 16 years old.

Whitehouse.gov lists the following reasons as to why the original DREAM Act would have been good for America:

The DREAM Act will contribute to our military’s recruitment efforts and readiness.

The DREAM Act will make our country more competitive in the global economy.

The DREAM Act will have important economic benefits.

The DREAM Act will allow our immigration and border security experts to focus on those who pose a serious threat to our nation’s security.

Even with all those supposedly wonderful things that the DREAM Act would do, the Democratically-controlled Senate failed to pass it, as reported on latimes.com:

The Senate rejected a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants on Saturday, a defeat that pushes any effort to reform immigration into the next Congress where conservatives will have even more influence.

In a 55-41 vote, senators failed to advance the Dream Act, which would have provided a way to legalize those immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally as children and who attend college or serve in the military. Three Republican senators voted for cloture, but 60 votes were need to advance the measure. Five Democrats voted no.

The Senate’s failure was a result of the American people filling their Senators’ voice and e-mails, expressing their opposition, in no uncertain terms.

Now, the President of the United States has overruled the American people and bypassed our system of checks and balances once again.

All for the sake of gaining new Democratic voters.

8 thoughts on “Obama and the Dream Act: Assimilation or Privilege?

  1. Gohawgs's avatar Gohawgs

    Mr. Chao, the Spelunker of the House and the rest of our elected officials are not doing much more than drawing a paycheck for voting present…

    The ONLY thing good about the obamanation handling the “dream act” the way he did is that he signed an EO. EO’s can be overturned by the next President…

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  2. Pam's avatar Pam

    What on earth does the Mexican representation in a soccer game has to deal with their rights of obtaining a higher education?
    They are not plagues my friend. They are people just like you and I that are here in this contry to pursue the same idea as you: a greater future. The D R E A M Act was not a “forget the American opinion” it was more of a “here is how we going to start solving the issue” Would you rather see illegal immigrants beggin in the streets or in school gaining knowledge to prepare themselves for the future? I mean, those are the two options because you and I already know that REGARDLESS of rules, laws, policies etc. Immigrants are here to STAY. But hey, great blog! you gave me a lot to talk about on my homework (:
    God Bless!

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