Posted by
GarryB on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:18:29 AM
The Latest info from Numbers USA.
This is the latest attempt to force illegal immigration on us! The Senate will never let up on this issue unless we continue to expose them for the things they are trying to do behind our backs in the name of Protecting every human as though they are already American Citizens. What part of Illegal do they not understand?!?!
The DREAM Act (Amendment 2237 to the Defense Authorization bill) is a nightmare.
It is a massive amnesty that extends to the millions of illegal aliens who
entered the United States before the age of 16.
- The DREAM Act allows illegal "teens" to petition for their parents, leading
eventually to their aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins:
The big argument for this amnesty is that it is for
teenagers who are here illegally because their parents broke the law. As you
will see in later bullet points, far more than teens can get this amnesty.
Nonetheless, the argument is that the teenagers should not be punished for the
crimes of their parents.
But as soon as DREAM amnesty citizens are over
21, they can bring in their parents who broke the law to get them into the
country. The chief criminals will be rewarded after all.
And because of
Chain Migration, the amnestied "teens" can see their aunts, uncles, cousins and
grandparents getting permanent U.S. residency as well.
- The DREAM Act does not Protect Americans from Terrorists and
Criminals:
Illegal immigrants are not required to
submit fingerprints or undergo background security checks at any point in the
DREAM Act process. Therefore, DHS has no way of learning whether an alien
seeking DREAM Act amnesty is a terrorist or criminal. This security failure is
compounded by the confidentiality section of the DREAM Act, which is a relic
from pre-9/11 days (it’s modeled on the fraud-prone 1986 amnesty). This section
basically requires DHS to hide information about terrorist and criminal aliens
from itself. If a DHS adjudicator at USCIS learns from a DREAM Act application
that an alien poses terrorist or criminal concerns, the adjudicator is
prohibited from alerting ICE enforcement officers at DHS, and in fact, if the
adjudicator did volunteer such information to ICE, he could be fined $10,000. To
cap it all, DHS is prohibited from removing from the United States all aliens,
including criminals, terrorists, fraudsters, and other ineligible aliens while
they have a DREAM Act application pending, even if that application is based
upon fraud or the alien is ineligible.
- The DREAM Act Offers Citizenship to Illegal Aliens Who Lack Good Moral
Character:
The DREAM Act does not require that
aliens have a history of good moral character; it only requires that they have
good moral character from the time that they apply. This means that criminal
aliens, terrorists, and other aliens who lack good moral character before they
apply get an amnesty for their pre-application period conduct, no matter how bad
or extensive that conduct.
- The DREAM Act is Not Just for Young People:
Sponsors insist that the point of the DREAM Act is to provide legal
status to “kids” and “young people.” However, the DREAM Act is not directed at
minors, as there is no age cap involved. Anyone, regardless of age, who
illegally entered the United States before the age of 16 and has illegally
remained here for 5 years or more will qualify for lawful permanent residence
(and eventual citizenship) if they satisfy the easily-met criteria for DREAM Act
amnesty.
- The DREAM Act is a Big Amnesty:
It’s estimated
there are some 2 million illegal immigrant children in the United States. They
are only a portion of the millions of aliens who will likely qualify for the
DREAM Act amnesty, because the DREAM Act does not place a cap on the number of
people who qualify, does not limit the age of those who qualify, and applies
retroactively to anyone who first entered before age 16.
- The DREAM Act is Deceptive:
The marketing
campaign for the DREAM Act makes as though the amnesty is intended for high
school graduates who are on their way to college or military service. But the
bill as written ensures that illegal immigrants don’t have to attend high school
or go to college to qualify for the amnesty: they need only take an
ability-to-benefit test and complete a 1-year vocational program to get eventual
citizenship (and there’s no requirement that they actually complete their
college education). Nor do aliens have to join the Armed Forces: they need only
go to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or Public
Health Service for 2 years to get eventual citizenship.
- The DREAM Act is a Fraud Machine:
We know from
experience that amnesty from immigration laws generates massive fraud, and the
DREAM Act is no exception. Nothing in the DREAM Act will prevent a 50-year old
alien from asserting that he entered the United States before the age of 16 and
has remained here ever since. The DREAM Act is silent on how DHS will determine
the veracity of such claims. The DREAM Act will actually promote fraud because
it prevents DHS from deporting aliens who’ve applied for the amnesty until their
applications are resolved – a process that will likely take years, because DHS
lacks the resources to rapidly process the millions of applications it will
receive. Even if DHS eventually decides that some aliens do not qualify for the
amnesty, DHS cannot use the statements aliens made in their applications to
deport them, because their statements are protected by the confidentiality
section in the DREAM Act.
- The DREAM Act is Unfair to American Students and Taxpayers:
The DREAM Act would repeal the 1996 law which says that
State colleges and universities cannot offer in-state tuition benefits to
resident illegal immigrants unless they offer the same benefits to students who
are U.S. citizens. So, an 18-year old United States citizen attending school in
a different state will pay substantially more money for his college education
than a 30-year old illegal alien residing in that state. Because public colleges
and universities are heavily subsidized by taxpayers, Americans end up paying
the bill for educating illegal immigrants. Further, because the repeal of the
1996 law is retroactive, illegal aliens who formerly paid out-of-state tuition
will have the ability and motivation to sue for the difference between what they
paid and the in-state rate.
- The DREAM Act Puts Illegal Immigrants at the Front of the Line for Green
Cards:
The DREAM Act requires that applications
for its amnesty must be expedited, bars DHS from charging fees for expedited
service, and fails to provide DHS the additional personnel and equipment needed
to handle expedited applications. Because millions of people will file
applications for DREAM Act amnesty (regardless of whether or not they eventually
qualify), DHS will experience a significant backlog of cases that will
necessarily slow DHS’ ability to process conventional business and family visas,
and applications for naturalization. This will adversely impact our economy, and
disrupt the settled expectations of intending legal immigrants to the United
States.
- The DREAM Act Will Allow Dangerous Criminal Aliens to Remain At Large in the
United States:
DHS lacks the resources to detain
all criminal aliens it encounters in the United States, and so DHS has to pick
and choose which criminals to hold for deportation. When DHS deports a criminal
alien, the detention or “bed space” vacated by the out-going criminal is
immediately filled by another criminal alien. The DREAM Act does not disqualify
anyone (even criminals) from filing an application and bars DHS from removing
any alien who’s filed an application for amnesty. Thus, criminal aliens who have
no desire to be deported will file DREAM Act applications to halt or slow their
deportations, which means they will spend more time taking up detention space
which could be used to house other criminal aliens. That means more criminal
aliens whom DHS cannot house will be free to roam the United States. The DREAM
Act also creates an opportunity for extremely dangerous criminal aliens to be
released into the general population. By law, a criminal alien who is subject to
a final order of removal must be released from DHS custody within 90 days if his
removal is not “reasonably foreseeable.” As mentioned previously, the DREAM Act
does not allocate resources to DHS to process the millions of applications that
are sure to be filed, which will result in very lengthy delays. The result? A
dangerous criminal alien who would otherwise have been removed from the United
States files his DREAM Act application, and when that application stalls at DHS
with millions of others, he can file a petition in a district court after 90
days to effect his release because his removal is not “reasonably foreseeable.”