In CA, if a legal citizen marries an illegal, is she automatically a legal citizen?

While the DREAM Act has broad support with both parties it keeps getting attached to bills meant to deal with adult illegal immigration. As long as this is done, it has no chances of ever passing. As for the children who brought here as small children, most of whom grew up believing they were US citizens, they are caught in a very bad situation.

Many do not find out until they try to get a drivers license or go to college. Imagine if you grew up as an American, being told in school that you could be anything you wanted if you only worked hard enough at it, only to be told that sorry. You have to go to Mexico or some place like that or you have to enter the underground economy.

The American dream you were taught about in school is not for you. Even though you yourself committed no crime. Their parents committed the crime.

Under US law, small children cannot commit a crime because they cannot form the intent to commit a crime. At worst, these children are only guilty of obeying their parents. Basically, we are punishing these children for crimes their parents committed.

But look at it from dollars and cents. As a society, we spent money educating these children. It costs about $100,000 to take a child from K to Grade 12.

US society has made an investment in each and every one of these kids then when they are now able to become taxpayers, we tell them we want them to leave the country. That we do not want their taxes. Or if they stay that we condemn them forever to jobs where they do not pay taxes.

This does not make sense. We paid to educate these kids then refuse to allow them to work here. We need to either deny these children education in the first place or we should at least let them work so they can pay back the cost of their education.

Then there is the fact that we deport almost none of these kids. They go into the underground economy. I believe many of the young men join gangs to engage in criminal activity because as a society we give them no other choice when it comes to making a decent living.

The gang life is their only choice. That we are deliberately creating an underclass. While there is no excuse for these kids parents breaking the law, we cannot punish the children for their parent’s action.

Suppose your father robbed a bank when you were three years old and was never caught. So the police come to lock you up for the crime. You would not like that either.

So now the people against this want to punish these kids for crimes their parents committed? It does not make sense. The DREAM act has been proposed several times to fix this problem, it has bipartisan support and is as good a solution as you will ever get to this problem.

However, the way Congress works, it will never be passed. This is because Congress keeps including the DREAM act in large omnibus bills that try to do all of immigration reform in one step. This includes a part to legalize people who entered the US illegally as adults.

That part is so hated by everyone, it causes all the rest of immigration reform to go down with it.

Please don't tell us you have been breaking the law for 14 years. All you can do is go back home when your 18 and apply before your 181/2. You will never get same opportunities because your parents did not do things the right way.

You are not a citizen, but your being here does take away from citizens.

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