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Dream Act Pros And Cons
The DREAM Act Skeptics say, why bother educating residents who can not legally hold jobs? But it should matter and there is a way to help. The DREAM Act means Development
Relief and Education for Alien Minors. This measure would provide a path to citizenship for youths brought here before they turned 16 who head to college or the military. Congress must pass the DREAM Act because it provides immigrant students college and university access, citizenship, and employment at the end of their education. Immigrant students in the U.S. struggle to continue their education after high school because they lack the documentation that many colleges and universities need to identify and register students for classes. USA Today states, “Colleges
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Working with the skill and knowledge that they got to achieve that glorious degree but that is a dream that all undocumented students can not continue to accomplish. Marcelo Suares from US News states, “ it is especially troubling and wasteful that some 1.5 million un authorized children, American in spirit but not in law, are enrolling in U.S. schools but will not lawfully gain employment at the end of their education” (Suarez, pg.2 par2). America has so many job opportunities for everyone and that is why so many immigrants are trying to become United States citizens but immigration enforcement continue to fail. Immigration laws make it very hard for undocumented students to attain at least a temporary work or student visa . It is an unpleasant and a very unfair situation for undocumented students to face the idea of been unemployed without being able to show the amount of knowledge they have to proceed their career. With the DREAM Act passed they will see an increase in financial productivity and improved job prospects that come with a college

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