5 Points Everyone Should Know about DREAM Act

The official name of what is now known popularly as The Dream Act is The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. The bill is designed to help students who are in The United States without a passport or a visa like their parents to stay in the country as permanent residents. 

What the bill does is to focus on the children of illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years as attested to the fact that these students have gone through much of the traditional schooling for children living in the states. 

The bill focuses on the moral obligation of the country to ease the fears that these children have that they could be deported even though they have lived and gone to school in the states since they are not registered as legal residents since their parents are illegal immigrants living and working for years in the states. 

The bill does not concern itself with the legal problems of the parents of these children only with the moral obligation that the country has to help these children to feel secure in a country that they have been raised in for years as being theirs legally if they are made legal permanent residents which is what this bill is supposed to do.

There are five points to remember that are used to justify the act. Firstly, the students are not to blame for their parents' illegal status in the country. 

These young people were brought into the country by their parents, and they had nothing to do with their parents' behavior. The point here is that legally one can not blame someone else for another's actions. 

The illegal act of coming into the country was committed by their parents, not by the students. To deport them would be like making them pay for their parent's illegal behavior. 

Secondly, the country has already invested quite a bit of money in healthcare and in education with these children of illegal immigrants who are already living in The United States. When one invests in something, one expects to get a return on that investment. 

That point is very powerful in the language of the act. Thirdly, these students have already been brought into the American culture and do not face the same problems as non-English speaking illegal immigrants. 

Fourthly, these students can benefit the economy of this country by staying here, working, and paying taxes. Fifthly, these students are a credit to the country as law-abiding people.