Friends, foes feel strongly about immigrant tuition measure. First of three articles about state ballot issues On some level, Oscar Moreno knew growing up that his family did not have permission to live in the United States.
But it wasn't until now, as the 17-year-old Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior makes plans for a career in architectural engineering, that it seemed to matter. Md. version of the DREAM Act up for popular vote. Drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/10734/1/Espinoza.pdf. Conversations of Consequence: The Maryland DREAM Act. The Towerlight » Students ‘dream’ of brighter future. Matthew Hazlett/ The Towerlight Jonathan Green had one dream: to attend Towson University.
An immigrant from Panama, Green is undocumented, meaning he is not a legal citizen. Maryland still hopes for a DREAM Act. Maryland's Dream Act runs counter to federal law. October 18, 2012 | 12:18 p.m.
What seems to be missing from Calvin Ball's piece Oct. 11 column on the Dream Act, and also seems to be missing from the discussion of this act overall, is the fact that the Maryland Dream Act directly contradicts the legal intent of an already existing federal law. On September 28, 1996 U.S. Poll: Wide lead for Maryland Dream Act.
If passed, Maryland would become the first state nationwide to approve a form of the legislation, known as the Dream Act, by a popular vote.
Lawmakers in 13 states have adopted similar policies, although none has faced a statewide test at the ballot box. Federal Dream Act legislation has for years remained stalled in Congress. In Maryland, the poll finds fully three-quarters of Democrats and 58 percent of independent voters supporting the measure, which the General Assembly narrowly passed last year and Gov. If the Dream Act wins, all Marylanders win. The president’s announcement was a welcome and long overdue step, but it is by no means a comprehensive solution.
In fact, with these young people now legally eligible to work, we need action at the state level more than ever to ensure that they can maximize their contributions to our economy. That means providing them with fair access to a higher education by allowing them to pay the same in-state college tuition rates as their high school classmates.
In Maryland, Gov. Martin O’Malley and I have supported — and the General Assembly has passed — the Maryland Dream Act, which would help these young people give back to communities throughout our state by allowing them to attend state colleges and universities at the in-state tuition rate. Eligible students must have graduated from a Maryland high school, their families must have paid state taxes for three years, males must register for the draft and all must continue to pursue legal immigration status. Www.umbc.edu/mipar/Documents/dreamactworkingpaper.pdf. Www.umbc.edu/mipar/Documents/dreamactpolicybrief.pdf. Study: Dream Act won't crowd out citizens at universities.
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(AP) Colorado prosecutors have formally charged a former doctorate student with 24 counts of murder in the shooting at an Aurora movie theater. Twenty-four-year-old James Holmes appeared Monday and was also formally charged with 116 counts of attempted murder. Twelve people were killed and 58 people were wounded or injured. The breakdown of the charges was not immediately clear. Hes also charged with a one count of possession of explosives.
Holmes was arrested early July 20 outside a Century 16 theater in Aurora during a midnight showing of the new Batman movie. Holmes was a student at the University of Colorado Denver before withdrawing last month. Study: Maryland Dream Act would initially be costly to taxpayers. Allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at Maryland colleges and universities would cost state and local taxpayers several million dollars each for each class that goes through the system, according to a new report.
The federal government would also have to pay about $50,000 a year for each class, adding up to state, local and federal governments sharing a total cost of nearly $7.5 million a year starting in 2016, if voters approve the Maryland Dream Act on the November ballot. The study by the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County found that eventually these costs would be offset by increases in income and sales taxes, as well as decreases in the costs of operating prisons, "because more educated individuals are less likely to commit crimes and be incarcerated. " Del.
"It is indeed a long-term investment," said UMBC public policy professor Marvin Mandell, one of the study's authors. Maryland campaign features undocumented LGBT students. Edwin (photo courtesy of Equality Maryland) Gay Silver Spring resident Edwin came to the United States from Guatemala in 2004 when he was 14.
His family initially told him after he came out at 19 that he was going to go to hell because of his sexual orientation. Edwin, now 22, only recently disclosed his undocumented status after a friend criticized President Obama’s immigration policy. “I was never asked to come to the U.S.,” Edwin, who declined to provide his last name, told the Washington Blade during an interview last month. “It was my mom’s decision. Edwin is among those profiled in the Familia es Familia Maryland campaign that Equality Maryland and CASA de Maryland formally launched in August to garner additional support for laws that provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and marriage rights for same-sex couples ahead of Election Day. Not Just a Latino Issue: Undocumented Students in Higher Education. Picture an undocumented student, and for most college counselors, it will be the image of a Latino student.
However, the reality is that students from many other ethnic groups lack documentation as well. These students hail from everywhere. According to DreamActivist.org, an online resource network for undocumented students, they come from places such as Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, England, Fiji, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, South Korea, Taiwan, Tonga, and Venezuela. According to one of DreamActivist's founders, Prerna, the network has "black dreamies, brown dreamies, yellow dreamies, white dreamies--a rainbow full of dreamies.
" DREAM Act is an acute issue for Asian Americans - The Hill's Congress Blog. We do not graduate enough home-grown science, math and engineering majors to keep up with demand.
If Congress passed the DREAM Act, the U.S. could increase its competitiveness in manufacturing and other sectors immediately — something the Council on Competitiveness says we desperately need to regain our economic edge in the global economy. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the DREAM Act would generate $2.3 billion in tax revenue over 10 years while UCLA estimates that the law would inject $3.6 trillion into the economy over the next 40 years.
The issue is particularly acute for Asian Americans and the University of California system. Nearly two-thirds of Asian Americans are foreign born; one in 10 students who would be covered by the DREAM Act is Asian American. In the UC system alone, Asian Americans compose approximately 40-44 percent of the undocumented student population. Asian-American Students in Limbo as DREAM Act Dies Again. Pacific Citizen, News Report, Brianna Pang, Posted: Dec 16, 2010 Steve Li, an undocumented City College of San Francisco student, sits in a detention center in Arizona, but thanks to a last minute reprieve from U.S. Sen. Gabe Gonzalez: Non-Breaking News: GOP Opposition to DREAM ACT Is About Race. I want to thank and applaud the candor of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher from California and Glenn Beck of Fox News. They finally had the courage and audacity to say what so many of us knew to be true but would never admit. The immigration debate is not about law, not about fairness, not about justice.
It's about race. Moving Rhetoric, Ugly Race-Baiting in House Debate on DREAM Act. Last night the immigrant rights movement won its largest victory in decades when the House of Representatives passed the DREAM Act, 216 to 198. It is the first time since 1986 that any pro-immigrant legalization bill has made it through a chamber of Congress. But the victory may be short-lived. The bill moves on to the Senate where it faces a much more daunting task of garnering enough votes to pass today. [Follow live blogging of the day’s Senate action here.] “After a grueling year of organizing where we heard many times that it couldn’t be done, we are now closer than ever,” said Carlos Saavedra, national coordinator for the United We Dream Network. Does Legislation Like DREAM Act Deplete Resources Reserved for Blacks? During the Tea Party Express/CNN debate, several candidates attacked GOP front runner, Rick Perry, on a Texas law that permits undocumented children to receive in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities.
The law, which was the first such law to be passed in the United States in 2001, has enabled thousands of students to get an education, but to the ire of some Republican opponents who say the measure rewards illegal behavior. During the debates Perry defended the law, which he supported when it was passed saying, “I’m proud that we are having those individuals be contributing members of our society.” He added, ”The bottom line is it doesn’t make any difference what the sound of your name is. Angela Davis Says Black People Have a Responsibility to Support the DREAM Act - Los Angeles - News - The Informer.
Click to enlarge Félix Beltrán Angela Davis, former Black Panther, is the go-to commentator on any protest or political uprising these days. (And, apparently, the go-to stencil for "street artists" designing nostalgic protest fliers.) So why hasn't anyone asked her how she feels about the DREAM Act -- the national push to grant undocumented students and soldiers their citizenship, and one of the greatest civil-rights fights of the 21st century? Maybe because... Immigration Myths and Facts. Www.casademaryland.org/storage/documents/ERCREPORT.pdf. 5 Myths about immigration. Www.maryland-dyc.org/resources/MDYC - Dispelling In-State Tuition Myths.pdf. Thousands of undocumented workers pay Maryland state taxes.
Rodricks: Thousands of undocumented workers pay (BSun) Marylandig.jpg (5400×4320) The Complex Tapestry of the Undocumented. Estimates Based on the March 2005 Current Population Survey. Illegal. Pew Hispanic Ctr: Unauthorized Immigrant Population. DREAM Act. This bill would provide conditional permanent residency to certain immigrants of good moral character who graduate from U.S. high schools, arrived in the United States as minors, and lived in the country continuously for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment. If they were to complete two years in the military or two years at a four-year institution of higher learning, they would obtain temporary residency for a six-year period. Supporters argue that the Act would not create an "amnesty program" and would produce a variety of social and economic benefits, while critics contend that it would reward illegal immigration and encourage further illegal immigration, inviting fraud and shielding gang members from deportation.
Background[edit] Members of Congress have introduced several forms of this bill in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Description[edit] Under the 2009 version of the Senate bill[15] DREAM Act beneficiaries must: Legislative history[edit] 2010[edit] Democrats: Anti-Dream Act group violated law - CapitalGazette.com: Election. Maryland’s Democratic Party alleges an anti-Dream Act group is breaking the law by running radio ads without registering with the state and filing campaign finance reports.
The Democrats sent letters to the Office of the State Prosecutor and the State Board of Elections on Monday asking for an investigation into Help Save Maryland. “Help Save Maryland is unquestionably collecting and spending money to promote the defeat of Question 4,” wrote Joseph E. Sandler, a Washington-based attorney for the Democrats. “By failing to form or register a ballot issue committee, the group is evading all of the required disclosure of contributions to and expenditures by the organization — defeating a fundamental objective of the state’s campaign finance laws.”
DREAM Act Hearing. Analysis of DREAM Act Beneficiaries. The Senate Immigration Bill Rewards Lawbreaking: Why the DREAM Act Is a Nightmare. Www.williamperezphd.com/articles/morales-herrera-murry-2009.pdf. Plyler v. Doe. DREAM Act Rally - University of Maryland - Electric Llama Photography.