{"id":15421,"date":"2017-09-14T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15421"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:37:26","slug":"dream-act-americans-need-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/09\/14\/dream-act-americans-need-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Act: What Americans Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the media coverage surrounding President Trump\u2019s decision to end the unconstitutional and illegal <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/09\/06\/things-americans-should-know-about-daca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)<\/a> program has referred to DACA recipients as \u201cDreamers.\u201d That term refers to the ill-fated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/research\/dream-act\" target=\"_blank\">Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act)<\/a> originally introduced by Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch in 2001. DACA and the DREAM Act are two different versions of the same bad idea. Here\u2019s what Americans need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The DREAM Act is just another amnesty program: <\/strong>First introduced in 2001, the DREAM Act was pitched as a measure to \u201cprotect\u201d children who were brought here unlawfully by their illegal alien parents. In reality, it was just another attempt to move closer to a blanket amnesty that would grant illegal aliens a path to citizenship, rewarding them for breaking our immigration laws.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The DEAM Act has never passed, despite multiple attempts to ram it through Congress: <\/strong>Voters made their opinions about the DREAM Act known, legislators listened, and the bill failed. In fact, every attempt to pass the DREAM Act has failed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Even though it has repeatedly failed to pass, the DREAM Act won\u2019t die: <\/strong>The most recent versions of the Dream Act were introduced, in July 2017, in the Senate by Lindsay Graham and Dick Durbin and in the House by Lucille Roybal-Allard and\u00a0 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Each version of the DREAM Act has expanded the classes of people who would be amnestied.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DACA = DREAM Act lite: <\/strong>When the DREAM Act failed President Obama tried to impose a watered-down version of it, without the consent of the American people. His unconstitutional <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/09\/13\/no-rescinding-daca-not-create-new-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\">DACA<\/a> enabled almost 800,000 illegal aliens to work, attend school and collect government-funded benefits in the U.S., but it <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/04\/19\/daca-doesnt-confer-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\">did not grant<\/a> any permanent benefits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The latest version of the DREAM Act would amnesty millions:<\/strong> If DACA were written into law by Congress, it would grant amnesty to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/09\/07\/how-many-people-will-trumps-daca-rollback-affect-about-100000-fewer-than-initially-reported\/?utm_term=.6fb14e8a3e7f\" target=\"_blank\">large group<\/a> of illegal aliens, roughly 600,000-800,000. But the DREAM Act would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/news\/mpi-estimates-many-15-million-dreamers-could-get-legal-permanent-residence-under-bipartisan\" target=\"_blank\">amnesty<\/a> as many as 3.3 million people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As part of its never-ending attempt to achieve a blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens, the anti-borders lobby wants the public to believe that DACA and the DREAM Act are one and the same. Then they can argue, \u201cWell, we\u2019ve already had the DREAM Act under DACA and the sky didn\u2019t fall, let\u2019s just make it a law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DACA was bad enough, but it was only temporary. Let\u2019s not get stuck with a much more lenient, and more permanent, version of that misguided program because the illegal alien defenders snuck in the DREAM Act. If the DREAM Act were to pass, it\u2019s only a short step to a blanket amnesty and the virtual erasure of America\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Should President Trump do a \u201cDACA deal,\u201d he should insist on getting real enforcement and true immigration reform for the American people in return. And any deal should be limited to current DACA recipients, with no criminal record. 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