{"id":4310,"date":"2008-04-17T04:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/17\/the-dream-act-sign-the-petition-please\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T04:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T11:32:32","slug":"the-dream-act-sign-the-petition-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Act — Sign The Petition, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke at Migra Matters<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

Each year approximately 2.8 million students graduate from US High Schools. Some will go on to college, join the military, or take other paths in life, hopefully all becoming productive members of society.<\/p>\n

But for approximately 65,000 of them, these opportunities will never be available. Not because they lack motivation, or achievement, but because of the undocumented status passed on to them by their parents.<\/p>\n

Lacking legal status and social security numbers, these students, raised and schooled in the US, cannot apply to college, get jobs other than those at the bottom of the economic ladder, or otherwise follow their dreams. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(There’s lots more in Duke’s post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

From ADreamDeferred.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n

All three presidential hopefuls co-sponsored the federal DREAM Act, yet it has never been made law. The DREAM Act would enable states to grant in-state tuition to these hardworking immigrant students, making higher education (and eventually citizenship) a real possibility.<\/p>\n

We need to put pressure on all three presidential candidates to commit to securing America’s future by enacting the federal DREAM Act in their first 100 days of office.<\/p>\n

Sign the petition<\/a> so that we can show our elected officials that the dreams of students must not be sacrificed to the anti-immigrant, anti-American status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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