Truth bomb: DACA and the DREAM Act often are conflated, even though they are not the same. This is from Harvard Law though old but accurate! Media never reported. law.uh.edu/ihelg/aging-ou…
DREAM act was for Alien Minors and DACA was for "Inadmissible" childhood arrivals who were under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012 uscis.gov/humanitarian/c…
Since @DickDurbin saw public was sympathetic to alien minors he hitched his "inadmissible" alien act to dreamer and started calling DACA recipient as dreamer. Media followed it up.
Real work in the valley is done by skilled immigrants. Those who created $500 billion for MSFT (There are 7000 skilled immigrants on 195 year long queue) MSFT ignored the plight of these instead ran with DACA ( only 12 in number)
FWD.us starting aggressively linking DACA with DREAMER. This created a situation where the "inadmissible" language of DACA was introduced in DREAM act. Media was asleep or was playing diversion game.
Current situation is alien minors who have been here all their lives are excluded from the act @DickDurbin is pushing because these alien minors have not done anything to become inadmissible. Read what it takes to be inadmissible from USC 1182 uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req…
The list includes almost all heinous activities American do not want in their future citizens! Read the list. Yet they are eligible to become dreamer because DACA was for "inadmissible" aliens.
Once the real alien minors who are aging out came together and asked senator @DickDurbin he was evasive. American media has responsibility to get @DickDurbin to drop "inadmissibility" as the basis for DREAM. This is also constitutional view. Please do the right thing.
I have nothing against DACA. Some of them are genuine victims of racist quotas. However making "inadmissibility" as the sole basis for "eligibility" is probably a mistake and @DickDurbin will modify it. Share widely. Give justice to alien minors.
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