To striking students, mmmmmmmmmm
Posted on 11/24/2010 2:53:27 PM PST by freespirited
University students across Texas this week joined San Antonio students in a hunger strike aimed at pressuring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to vote for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for students and soldiers brought to the country illegally as children. Started two weeks ago by a dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the hunger strike spread this week to UT campuses in Austin, Dallas, Arlington, Brownsville and Edinburg, as well as the University of North Texas in Denton, according to members of DREAM Act NOW!, the UTSA student group that organized the strike.
The group is part of a national coalition called United We DREAM, which brings together activists in each state. Universities in Florida and Indiana have also begun striking in solidarity, members said.
“Now that they have seen we are still going and not planning to stop, some have joined us,” said Claudia Sanchez, one of the UTSA strikers. Sanchez, 29, is a U.S. citizen, but many of her fellow strikers are in the country illegally.
Hutchison met with a DREAM Act activist in Washington last week in hopes the meeting would end the hunger strike, according to a spokeswoman. Sanchez said San Antonio strikers want a face-to-face meeting with Hutchison when she comes home to Texas for the holidays.
“We want to start talking about the specifics of the DREAM Act so she can tell us exactly what she doesn't agree with,” Sanchez said. “We are giving her until Thanksgiving. If not, we are going to start stepping up our campaign. We will put more pressure on her.”
In a statement issued Tuesday, Hutchison said she would not support the current bill because it “goes far beyond the intended group of children who grew up in the U.S. and attended primary and secondary schools here.”
Hutchison is concerned for the safety and welfare of the students, but has already met with people from many parts of Texas on the issue and does not plan change her position, the statement said.
Sanchez said she hoped Congress would vote on the bill next week during the lame-duck session.
The act would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the country before the age of 16. To be eligible, the immigrants must have no criminal record and either attend college or serve in the military for two years. It would likely benefit about 825,000 immigrants, the vast majority under the age of 35, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Critics have called it an unfair amnesty
1) Illegal entry - arrival
2) Blackmail/Extortion - now
3) Prolonged theft? - forever?
Folks the Dream Act has got to be defeated. It is bad news and will change America for ever for the worse.
If the hunger strike could really spread, it would reduce demand for food and help keep inflation in check.
I’ve been on a hunger strike since lunch. It will end in a few minutes.
“DREAM Act hunger strike spreads.”
Translation...
The Food Stamp program is no longer bankrupt.
Pres. G. W. Bush had the solution for these people, but the lamestream media kept yelling, “AMNESTY,” and Congress refused to pass it.
His plan was that anyone who had been in this country illegally for six years, and was working and paying income tax and social security, and had not committed any serious crimes, could stay. However, they could NOT become citizens and vote until they got in line behind those who had applied legally which would take (if I remember correctly) seven years. That meant a total of thirteen years. Also, if any of these above mentioned illegals should commit any serious crime during their six years, they would be deported.
As for the rest of the illegals, he proposed building the wall and Congress passed a bill with merely a fraction of the amount needed.
But, we still hear people yelling AMNESTY about Bush’s proposal.
Once these imbeciles croak, how many more illegals to go in America?
Kay should definitely show some compassion. Rush them Thanksgiving care packages with decent helpings of Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes.... mmmm mmmm. Don’t forget the cranberry sauce!
As I savor my turkey dinner I will think of these people and smile.
To striking students, mmmmmmmmmm
Ping!
Today's Red Diaper babies are a bunch of pansies.
Amnesty for illegal aliens is dead—the people spoke 11/2/2010.
One of the provisions also states that once they become citizens, they can bring mama, papa, and all family members from mexico to keep the family together. The medical costs, food cost, housing cost and every other welfare will become available to the family with us taxpayers picking up the tab. Total BS
29 is a little long in the tooth to be a college student. Maybe she is a community organizer. By 29, you're either a college graduate, a dropout, or a character at the beginning of the first Ghostbusters movie.
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