Column: DREAMs and nightmares

Temi Fajemisin / Roundup

The United States of America is focused on being a Nation willing to help everyone irrespective of ones economic income, social status or race.

Thousands of people from all over the world move to America in hopes of starting a new life for their families that will give them the opportunities that their birth countries were not able to provide.

If this is so, then there shouldn’t be objection for the Dream Act to provide financial aid to undocumented immigrants who attend Universities and Colleges in the State of California.

If the Dream Act is passed and finalized in California, this will not only change the life of undocumented College students but will possibly later on inspire other states to pass the Dream Act for their undocumented immigrants that are in college as well.

There is a list of requirements in order to be eligible for the DREAM Act, one requirement is the person must have proof of having lived in the United States before age 16.

The full list is on dreamact.info.

Thousands of undocumented students meet these qualifications and should have a right to some form of government or private financial assistance.

The Dream Act is not for purpose of taking away millions of dollars from its citizens and giving it to undocumented immigrants who don’t pay taxes or have criminal records, but to help students who are attending College/University but are struggling with the costs.

It’s not like these students came from a different country two years ago and then demanded that they deserve to get Cal Grants.

These people have been living in California for multiple years, and most likely have parents who are taxpayers, who work and earn an honest living, and have never committed a crime.

If these are the people that we are not in support of providing assistance to, then who should we help?

At the end of the day the Dream Act will provide thousands of undocumented students a means of being able to further and finish their higher education.

America is known as “The Land of Opportunity” therefore, with the passing of the Dream Act, it will allow us to do that.