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This is for all DREAMers … not just Hispanic or Latinos
President Obama announced that the policy of prosecutorial discretion—which allows immigration agents to defer deportation of low-risk, non criminal undocumented immigrants—will be expanded to all DREAM eligible youth.This is a huge win for the immigration reform movement, and comes as a result of years of tireless mobilization and agitation by DREAMers, undocumented immigrants, and immigrants’ rights activists and politicians.
The expansion in policy means that effective today, there will be an immediate halt to all deportation proceedings for DREAMers, and all DREAMers who are already in deportation proceedings will get deferred action (lasting two years) and work permits, if they meet eligibility. Any DREAMer who meets the criteria can come forward and apply for deferred action and a work permit as well.
While this is an exciting moment for the immigration reform movement, it is not an ultimate victory. This policy expansion still does not provide a path to citizenship for DREAMers. There is still a dire need for a national DREAM Act. The struggle continues, and electing pro-DREAM champions into office this November is as important as it has ever been.
Here are some of the details of the new policy:
To be eligible you must
- Be between 15 years or older and 30 years or younger may apply
- Be in US for at least 5 (as of today, 6/15/12)
- Have to have maintained continuous residence (relatively flexible interpretation)
There are no restriction on when you can apply (i.e. no window that closes after a year, for example)
Grants of Deferred Application are for 2 years and are renewable
Criminal Ineligibility: If you have been convicted of a felony, a serious misdemeanor or three minor misdemeanors not all stemming from same incident, then you are not eligible.
We estimate that as a result of this policy extension, nearly 1 million DREAMers will be spared from deportation. This is truly an exciting day.
Click here to thank the White House for keeping their promise to provide administrative relief.
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Meanwhile some immigrant is stuck in his homeland because the “dreamer” and his parents vilated our most basic rules. That law abiding immigrant may never make it here because the “dreamer” cut in line. Why reward line cutters?… I don’t have the slighest sympathy for kids who get hurt because of the actions of their parents. It was the parents who knew the risk and hurt their kids, not me. Half of our prison system is full of legal citizens who are parents. You don’t think their kids are suffering? Should we just refuse to apply our laws to citziens who have kids? Crazy…
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I appreciate most if not all responses … you actually took the time to visit my blog and read a post. Some of the information on the post you are referring to was taken from the organization Reform Immigration for America site and was not only interesting it was meant to definitely open up a dialogue, more questions and hopefully more understanding of what Dreamers will have to go through in order to become an American. So, I did not write it and sometimes I post things I may not completely agree with but in this case I will tell you that since the word immigrant has existed so has adult folks brining or having children while being undocumented and no, I do not believe it is the fault of the children … this is a fact of life that immigrants of all races have experienced since that complicit yet unspoken deal made between the undocumented and companies that not only reached out they exploited people who had nowhere else to go because the fact is there was not net or program way back before the numbers grew to 11 or 12 million undocumented and I call those who do so with malice or who have committed illegal acts unacceptable but being a child of is a person of circumstance. I also believe that there are parts of our economy that would not be making or giving the consumer food even with the eco-footprint is huge … and admit it … the workers are either immigrants or undocumented and while there are “Americans” who do stoop work the numbers are small and then there’s the cleaning, yard and construction industries with those in control choosing to hire the undocumented … I think the process needs an incredible amount of reforming and though I know some about the “line cutters” I am not sure what the actual numbers are lest we talk about the number of people who get deported wrongfully as well. It is a messy process that no one wants to deal with honestly because the sin and the sinner is far to close at hand.
As for those in our prisons … that is a whole another bag of nasty and I cannot begin to tell you how upsetting it is to know that our prisons are imo legal controlled housing for folks of colour. I am not going to say that people of colour do not commit crimes but clearly there is a difference in the crime committed and the punishment levied to defendants. These are two issues that definitely need reforming yet I cannot interchange them because not every dreamer has committed a robbery,murder etc whereas at least some of the inmates have actually done so … thus, my hesitation to use the analogy. I would say that being a dreamer is not as easy as you seem to think because the application and the hoops seem as rigorous as trying to become a citizen and it should be. Again, I appreciate your right to the first amendment and opinion … mine is just different. I also think it’s time for folks to come out of the shadows such as kids brought here or born here …are Americans; they know nothing different, for employers to be held accountable and for those waiting to get processed, do so asap while the others get in line. I hope you are not suggesting we round folks up and send them somewhere ?
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