Dream Act students risk deportation to win support

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Dream Act students risk deportation to win support

by Richard Ruelas - Nov. 16, 2010 11:07 AM
The Arizona Republic

Their stories are similar, that they entered the United States as children and now, as adults, live here illegally with virtually no way to change that.

For years their status did not greatly affect their achievements. They went through school with honors and entered universities and colleges. Some yearned to join the military. Most kept secret their lack of legal residency.

They pinned their hopes for the future on the Dream Act. The bill would grant a path to legal status for immigrants who crossed the border as children and have gone on to join the military or attend college. The bill died in Congress in September, just as it has during every congressional session over the past nine years.

The students have not given up. They set up a weeks-long vigil this summer outside the Phoenix office of Sen. John McCain. They hounded candidates during campaign stops and on Election Night. And this week put their faces on an advocacy billboard erected near Tempe Marketplace ...

http://www.azcentral.com/news/azliving/articles/2010/11/16/20101116dream-act-immigration-bill-students.html

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1. I'm an Arizonan (not by choice then, but proudly now) and I support the Dream Act

proudly and unwaveringly.

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2. What country in their right mind would turn down hard working bright futured possible citizens such

as these. They have already demonstrated their fitting into American society, they have already proven they can and will be a boon to us all. Why then could anyone not want them to enter a legal path toward citizen ship and strengthen us as a nation.

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3. That country would be the United States. nt