Only an insecure colossus could reject the Dream Act - 10/27/2007 - MiamiHerald.com#recent_comm

Only an insecure colossus could reject the Dream Act - 10/27/2007 - MiamiHerald.com#recent_comm

My letter:

What's even more ridiculous is that many undocumented students do not even qualify for a student visa. In other words, foreigners have more rights than students in the U.S.! Many of these kids only speak English and lived in the U.S. since they were babies. One in three Americans are descendants of Ellis Island. The biggest immigration group was Italians. The only requirement was to make it to the U.S. and that they did not have contagious disease. I am not for blanket amnesty, but why can productive immigrants with no criminal record be given the opportunity to get some legal status? I arrived to this country when I was 12 years old, learned English in 3 months, graduated High School Salutatorian, and went to Harvard. The only difference between those kids and me is that my father had money to get a work visa. Unfortunately, undocumented immigrants cannot even qualify for a work visa. For Republicans, it is better to have 12 million illegals than identify, qualify, and give some legal status to those productive to society. I hate to say it but it is a new and accepted form of Appartheid. It is better to maintain 12 million people as sub-humans than give them any rights.