DREAM Act would be a nightmare

By D.A. King, Athens Banner Herald, November 30, 2010

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In less than a decade, this reality could easily double or triple the more than 2.1 million green cards that will be immediately distributed as a result of the DREAM Act," Sessions, a consistent voice of reason illegal immigration, wrote recently.

The majority of Americans who breathed an exhausted sigh of relief when the midterm elections were over may have a nasty surprise coming, in the form of an after-Thanksgiving amnesty vote for about two million illegal aliens.

The nearly decade-old Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act last defeated in September will likely get another chance in the lame-duck congressional session. A vote on the amnesty bill could come as early as this week.

While it comes in multiple versions, the DREAM Act amnesty is constantly described as being "for the children" or "justice for scholars." Total bunk. The transparent amnesty scheme applies mostly to adults in their 30s and would be the largest amnesty since the "one-time" amnesty of 1986.

"The scope of this proposal is enormous, extending amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants including a number who have committed serious crimes, incentivizing further illegality and making it more difficult to develop a just and responsible immigration policy," said a spokesman for Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.

"In less than a decade, this reality could easily double or triple the more than 2.1 million green cards that will be immediately distributed as a result of the DREAM Act," Sessions, a consistent voice of reason illegal immigration, wrote recently.

Sessions adds, "Not only would the legislation put an estimated 2.1 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship, it would also give them access to in-state tuition rates at public universities, federal student loans, and federal work-study programs. Illegals who gain citizenship under this legislation will have the legal right to petition for the entry of their family members, including their adult brothers and sisters and the parents who illegally brought or sent them to the U.S."

A very effective way for readers to combat the DREAM Act amnesty is to take advantage of the completely free "contact-Congress from- your- home-computer" service provided by the nonprofit immigration-control group NumbersUSA on its website. The website offers additional information on the DREAM Act. From NumbersUSA:

• "There are no numerical limits on how many illegal aliens may be granted amnesty, and they cannot be counted against any existing immigration cap."

• "There is no end date on the application period, so there is nothing to stop illegal aliens who enter the country in the future from applying if they are willing to lie about when they entered."

• "No alien who files an amnesty application may be removed from the United States before the application is adjudicated completely."

• "Every illegal alien who applies for amnesty would move to the front of the line, ahead of the millions of people who are in line to come to the United States the right way."

Know this: If the Dream Act amnesty is approved, the chances of resentful, newly legalized former illegal aliens raised on vicious identity politics, and their families, becoming immigration enforcement stalwarts given the legal ability to vote are slim and none. These are the open borders radicals who are even now - as illegals - marching with the ACLU demanding an end to enforcement of our immigration laws.

There is still work for mainstream America to this year. Wake up to the bad DREAM Act.

• D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration.

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