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“I saw all my friends talking about the universities they wanted to go to,” she said on the conference call. “I couldn’t apply to the scholarships they were applying for or the schools they were applying to… I was undocumented and I couldn’t do that.” After taking time off to save money, Rebollevo enrolled in community college.

that happens more often than you think. there was a girl in my high school who basically got straight A’s all thru high school but she couldnt apply for financial aid because of her immigration status. not really sure what wound up happening to her.. hopefully she eventually went

*rob*

rf….people are talking about tossing out the US – born children of illegal immigrants. You think the DREAM act has a snowball’s chance in hell????????

“I’m not arguing against DADT and most Republicans are not either” —-
most are not arguing they are just firmly against it and won’t vote for it come hell or highwater. You really think if there were a separate bill to end DADT that ‘most Republicans’ would vote for it? and what about DOMA?

This is not the big immigration bill.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/09/passing-the-dream-act-is-the-right-thing-to-do-duncan-says.html

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“Above all it will stop punishing innocent people for the accidental circumstances of their birth. Many came here to the U.S. as young children. America is the only country they know. They’ve done exactly what was asked of them in their schools and they deserve every opportunity to go further in life,” Duncan said.

The DREAM Act will give hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants a chance at citizenship provided they receive a college degree or complete at least two years of military service and are of “good moral character.” To qualify, an illegal immigrant must be younger than 36 years old and have arrived in the U.S. as a child.

The National Immigration Law Center has estimated that roughly 725,000 people would be eligible to take advantage of this provision.

Take for example Diana Rebollevo, an illegal immigrant who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was nine years old. When she graduated from high school she hoped to go to college, but without legal status she knew she could never afford it.

“I saw all my friends talking about the universities they wanted to go to,” she said on the conference call. “I couldn’t apply to the scholarships they were applying for or the schools they were applying to… I was undocumented and I couldn’t do that.” After taking time off to save money, Rebollevo enrolled in community college.

If the DREAM Act passes, states would apply in-state tuition rates to undocumented students like Rebollevo.
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