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Monday, October 15, 2007

Dream Act...Terminated by the Terminator

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a series of vetoes on various bills — and in so doing dashed the hopes of student activists who have been pushing to make it easier for undocumented students to obtain financial aid.
Last year, when Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have allowed some undocumented students to apply for state financial aid. Advocates for immigrant students hoped that that change would make a difference and held rallies around the state on behalf of the bill.
But the governor’s position did'nt change. He stayed true to form. They don't call Arnold, the "terminator" for nothing. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, did the right thing. He obliterated, the budget perforator, money eradicator, illegal elevator, "in state tuition" bonanza for illegals. I note that the Supreme court ruled against these kind of bills in the past as illegal. In state tuition is for all not all for one.

Supporters of the legislation noted that there are about 25,000 students who graduate from California high schools each year without documentation to stay in the United States or the right to federal student aid that is essential for many low-income students to afford tuition and other expenses. However, conservatives have been urging the governor to veto the bill.

The vetoed legislation is known as the DREAM Act, modeled on other state bills and a federal bill whose acronym stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. (Democrats in Congress are hoping to attach the federal bill to other legislation, but have been stymied of late in doing so.

Muslim incognito, Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential campaign stop in California last month, said that failing to sign the bill would “compound the immigration crises by driving thousands of children who are on the right path into the shadows.” Hahahaha, wow, that's TO BAD, WE THE PEOPLE WANT THEM TO GET OUT OF THE SHADOWS, AND GO HOME, OH OH OH OBAMA.

Pro-DREAM groups were quick to criticize the veto and to vow to bring the bill back next year. “The governor has just bowed to the racist wing of the Republican Party. California needs a larger and more diverse workforce to prosper and we can’t continue to relegate Latinos to second class status,” said Yvette Felarca, Northern California coordinator of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary.

STANDARD CRAP, BOWING to the racist wing of the Republican Party...PARDON ME. IF YOU COME HER LEGALLY, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT relegating ILLEGAL Latinos to second class status...they would be first class legal ones. Case and point...Puerto Ricans.

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