The DREAM Act is re-born.

The DREAM Act has been reintroduced!

And what a press coverage it has received, from both sides of the argument there have been several emerging articles that have promoted and demonized the DREAM Act.

The current status of both House and Senate versions has been made available to all reader on the information bar, and the "Current Projects" section has also been updated!

Here are some of our most visited headlines:

Recurring DREAM back in Congress
DREAM Act Reintroduced In Senate
DREAM ACT Reintroduced In Both Chambers

Not to mention the blogosphere has been plagued with several reviews, opinions, testimonials, about the DREAM Act's introduction.

More distinguished post so far has been that made by Kyle over at CitizenOrange, in which he dictated 5 actions on how to help the DREAM Act:

1. CALL - The National Council of La Raza has a page to help you call your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
http://capwiz.com/nclr/callalert/index.tt?alertid=12988601

2. FAX - America's Voice has a page to help you fax your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
http://americasvoiceonline.org/page/speakout/DaretoDream

3. EMAIL - Change.org has a page to help you email your congressional representatives in support of the DREAM Act.
http://www.change.org/ideas/932/view_action/ask_your_congressperson_to_support_the_dream_act

4. PETITION - Dreamactivist.org has the official petition in support of the DREAM Act.
http://dreamact2009.com/

5. TEXT - Text "Justice" ("Justicia" for Spanish) to 69866 to be the first to know when the DREAM Act is introduced. FIRM's Mobile Action Network is an excellent way to stay connected and have maximum impact at just the right moment.
http://fairimmigration.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/action-join-the-fight-for-immigrant-rights/

Here at LIFE BY DREAM would like to thank Kyle for his hard work and dedication on the issue, as he is one of the most invaluable members of our activist bubble. His determination only bleeds orange as he has written several articles where he defends the DREAM Act, and gives comprehensive articles that depict the benefits of this legislature.

It is without a doubt that his article struck some positive chords, as AlterNet (one of the largest online magazine) published Kyle's Pass the DREAM Act for Future Economic Prosperity: A Comprehensive Argument.

The moral argument for the DREAM Act is simple. The only people who cannot see it are those who refuse to recognize unauthorized migrants as humans. That's why any article that humanizes migrants is always quickly filled with vicious nativist hate in the comments section.

BRAVO Kyle! Nobody could have put it better.
These are exciting times ladies and gentlemen, as our drums continue to resonate, we slowly but surely move forward.

Please take some time to visit all of the links covered in this post, as you can discover plenty of valuable information of the recent developments about the DREAM Act.

Deport all parents?

A couple days back an article was published on South Florida's Newspaper The Sun-Sentinel (Broward County) with the following title:

Families of deported immigrants hope lawsuit, new U.S. president bring change

The article describes the story of Cecia, 12, and Ronald Jr., 9 who are among the thousands of children who are born in the U.S as citizens but find themselves with undocumented parents who often end up deported, tearing their family to chunks. Hit the Link for the Full Article.

Here at Life by Dream, I find it difficult to believe that these families are torn without any sort of remedy at all. What would be more horrible than being separated from your own child for an unknowingly long period of time? Better yet, why are these children to be punished? As U.S. citizens shouldn't they at least have a shot to fix their broken family?

According to the comments left on this article, they don't.

More or less, they should be treated as criminals, stripped of their U.S. citizenship and sent back home with their illegal parents.

Does this show any kind of rationale, or morale?

Where have the American values gone?

How do we continue to plague ourselves of Xenophobia and hated to wards all immigrants?

Common misconceptions/stereotypes against immigrant groups:

• All "Illegal" Immigrants do not pay taxes.
• All "Illegal" Immigrants come to the U.S. to turn it into a third world country.
• All "Illegal" Immigrants are Hispanic.
• All "Illegal" Immigrants do not contribute a dime to society.
• All "Illegal" Immigrants are lazy

For the record the list does not stop there.
Let it be known that immigrants do contribute to society against all stereotypes, and yes they do come in all shapes and sizes. As for illegal immigration, the trends are regressing and illegal immigration is slowing down.

Here are some of the comments on that article.
It saddening how opinions and views of a person may change by simply applying the peel and stick label of "illegal alien" over their foreheads without any sort of discussion or knowledge of who the person is, more or less what he/she is capable of

This isn't your country and it never will be, s***. You come here unwanted
and uninvited to leech off the American taxpayer and turn the US into a
Third World s***hole like your homeland. No matter how many of your
illiterate relatives you drag over, no matter how many totally uneducable anchor spawn you dump out there are alot more of us than there are of you. And we can subtract alot faster than you can add.

No Way! Send them and their kids back where they came from! They broke the
LAW by coming here and overstaying their visas. Get them out of MY country NOW!

The anchor babies should be stripped of their citizenship also. The parents
came hear with imntention to thumb their noses at our system and do it the way
the wanted. They undercut wages of the rest of the work force and now we have a
big mess. Sorry kiddees, your parents broke the law and that does not give you a
free pass!!!

I wonder if these nativists consider people "illegal aliens" even after they fell out of status due to the broken immigration system that the U.S. currently has. Please do feel free to leave you pro-migrant comments under the article, in order to shed light on this issue.

Over at Latin Lingo Clothing, they begun printing of Dream Act support T-Shirts.
I got mine in today, when will you get yours ;]



A percentage of proceeds from this shirt will be donated to Dreams To Be Heard!!!!

RECENT NEWS:

1. We got ourselves attention from the Media over in UNIVISION in California:



2. E- Verify + Stimulus Package = BAD IDEA

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing the federal government to stop its expansion of a program that seeks to verify whether employees are legally allowed to work in the country.
...
"This massive expansion of E-Verify is not only bad policy, it’s unlawful," said Robin Conrad, executive vice president for the Chamber's public policy law firm.

My two cents in this E-Verify program would be that not only would it harm immigrants, but it has been known to not be error proof. This could mean that yes, some NO MATCH letters could be sent to employers regarding their undocumented workers; but, some U.S. citizens could get a NO MATCH letter as well due to the error gap the E-VERIFY system has within it.

Thanks to our friends over at DREAM ACT TEXAS for the post.