Posted on 11/28/2010 11:21:51 AM PST by thecodont
The student body president at Cal State Fresno. The drum major at UCLA. Student senators, class presidents, team captains and club officers at community colleges.
Scores of student leaders across California are illegal immigrants who came to this state as children.
With Congress expected to vote as early as this week on immigration reform that would give these students a pathway to legal status, a new generation of scholars who were raised in California but not born here are shedding their secrecy and speaking about their lives.
They have a sense of urgency. If the bill, known as the Dream Act, does not pass before a more conservative Congress takes power in January, it is unlikely to pass for years to come.
"At first my parents said, 'What are you doing? You're risking so much,' " said David Cho, the UCLA drum major. "But I told them, 'It's not only me. There are thousands of students like me trapped in a broken system. Unless our generation speaks out, the politicians won't tackle it. They have to see our faces.' "
Cho, 21, who conducts the 250-member UCLA marching band in front of 75,000 people at the Rose Bowl, came to the U.S. from South Korea at the age of 9. It wasn't until he was accepted to UCLA that his father showed him a letter saying the family's visa wasn't valid.
"I grew up here, worked hard, got into UCLA. And there I was staring at this letter telling me to go 'home,' when this is home," Cho said. "My whole world flipped upside down."
With no papers, Cho can attend school but not legally work, drive or receive financial aid. He sleeps on a friend's couch or sometimes at the UCLA library.
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I gotta dream too, that all these assholes leave the country, anybody wanna act on that?
A good reson not to do it.
A good reason not to do it.
A good reason not to do it.
...sure - give them something they didn’t earn - hell - I wish someone would give me PhD so I can make more money - I don’t want to earn it - I just hope it passes and MY LIFE will be better - ...
What a great role model this Act is - ignore the laws - get educated - and then demand it be legalized! What’s next???
Sure! After all, Whitey stole it from ya. Steal it back! You got a president who sympathizes with you lawbreakers, anyway! You won't get in trouble!
Don't stop with just an "act"!. DEMAND that taxpayers care for you and ALL your relatives around the world! Forever & ever!
It's just someone else's money, right????
If we give it to them, then we’ll have to put up with their kids rioting and whining when we are finally fully bankrupt and have to stop the freebies. Put a stop to the nonsense now rather than in 20 or 25 years.
“Unless our generation speaks out, the politicians won’t tackle it. They have to see our faces.’ “
Look a**hole, I’ve seen your leeching faces everyday here in L.A.. Everyone in LAC has seen it.
It is a miracle that the LAT were able to scrape up the lone lazy Korean in L.A. because I have Korean friends and they mostly are business-minded, independent people.
Because you illegal kids deserve it cuz your illegal Mom and Dad have been paying their taxes all along to support that college system you’re taking advantage of, right? You little proggies will be singing a different tune IF you can find a job after graduation and you see your paycheck halved by the taxes you’ll be paying to support these freebie freeloaders.
It’s always soooo easy to be a liberal jerk urging freebies when everyone else is paying the freight.
Well let the little snotty-nosed freeloader “students” pay for it. I don’t want to do it.
I want all of the illegal aliens out of our country. None of them should be allowed into tax supported colleges.
My dream is that we invade Mexico, seize their oil fields, and use the proceeds to send all the illegals back home.
Got it.
Make ‘em pay full price no matter what or where they come from.
If you can’t afford it, you probably shouldn’t go to college (ie: go to work)
I’m not quite sure what to say to Mr Cho.
Charge them a fee of 10k a year to attent or get their diploma, then send them home.
They want it as a reality until they figure out they will pay for it themselves.
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