Mark Brown, a columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times, recently wrote about the plight of many school-age kids who have no status. They typically entered the U.S. at a young age with their parents.
No matter your position on relief for foreign nationals who are in the U.S. unlawfully, it is difficult to argue that children who came with their parents unlawfully should suffer the consequences of those actions. Even to those who would argue they should go home, I'd say this: We need the ideas of bright, ambitious young people, no matter where they happen to be born. Our country thrives on that influx of intellect and diversity. It always has.
I was asked to comment on Mark Brown's article on WGN Radio in Chicago, and enjoyed the live conversation. I tried to give a backdrop to the discussion that ensued between host John Williams and listeners. I explained that the inequity of imposing the penalty of having no chance to regularize a teen's status, thereby preventing her from attending college, is exactly what The DREAM Act legislation seeks to remedy.
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