Anonymous wrote:They were criminals the day they set foot in our country.

You are using the word to mean "one who has committed a crime" with, I suspect, the full intention of implying "one who habitually breaks the law", using the emotional content of the latter to try to bolster your case.

You know, there's a long Western legal tradition, dating back to the Magna Carta (I believe) that holds that children should not be held responsible for the bad behavior of their parents. It's a bedrock principle in American history and law. But, if we're just going to drop that whole thing, we should go all the way and make debt inheritable again and have kids finish their parents' prison time. I mean, why stop at immigrant kids? If it's good for their character to be taught a lesson about upholding the law, it certainly must be good for American kids' characters too.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the DREAM act. It needs to be in effect, I am from CT originally and had a few very intelligent friends who graduated in the top 5%. And they didn't know they were illegal until they couldn't apply to college, they have never been in any type of trouble And to call these people criminals is absolutely not fair. Most of them came over to the US for opportunities for their kids.

They were criminals the day they set foot in our country.

I agree with the DREAM act. It needs to be in effect, I am from CT originally and had a few very intelligent friends who graduated in the top 5%. And they didn't know they were illegal until they couldn't apply to college, they have never been in any type of trouble And to call these people criminals is absolutely not fair. Most of them came over to the US for opportunities for their kids.

Anonymous wrote:This is how obama will win, he will grant citizenship to all the illegals in exchange for votes. He is able to raise the dead and have them cast votes for him so why can't he get illegals citizenship in exchange for votes?

Uh, you do realize the Congress makes the laws, not the President. Right?

You don't live in CA anymore, and without the illegals there would be a millions of dollars less spent on paying for these people. Their parents are criminals and I really font care about their kids, the parents should have thought of that before. I'd welcome an Arizona law here.

How are the children in any way criminals?

And without immigrant labor and demand, the economy would be even worse in California. I am from CA originally.

Easy to say in DC when you don't have to pay tax dollars to support millions of illegal mexicans every year!!!!

Come move to California and you'll see why a lot of us didn't want it. Nightmare act is more like it... Why reward criminals?!

I cannot even begin to fathom how the DREAM act has failed to pass for so long. Consider:

1. Punishing children for the actions of their parents? Reprehensible.
2. Wasted investment of millions of dollars - we educated these kids and now we want them to be deported or relegated to shady under the table work with no chance of ever succeeding in real life
3. Aren't we setting up a dangerous system whereby we are releasing kids from high school with no prospects in life? That can't be good for society as a whole
4. Really? They should be deported? Including kids that have never been to their home country past infancy? So we just drop them off over the border and say adios?

I find it a national shame that we have pretended that this isn't an incredibly pressing issue. Kids are suffering in wait while Congress sits spineless, refusing to do anything. Ditto Obama.