Dream Act Pros And Cons

The Dream Act bill passed the House but later was denied by the Senate, according to the article ‘Immigration: A Dream Deferred” from the New York Times Upfront magazine written by Julia Preston. Many illegal immigrants are “coming out” as illegal trying to get the Senate to change their minds but I think we should just leave it as it is. I believe you should vote “NO” on this bill. U.S citizens are struggling to get back on their feet and get steady. If the Dream Act gets passed it is a free ride for illegals to get what they want even though we as a country are struggling. There are also high school students struggling trying to find out what they want to major in for college and trying everything they can in order to get a scholarship or just even get into college while we have ILLEGALS fighting for their “rights” to go to a U.S college even though some of our citizens can’t. We should focus on trying to help U.S citizens before we help illegals. By passing the Dream Act, we are helping illegals. Many families are still paying off student loans since they didn't have the money for college. Families are worried about if their loved ones will be able to go to college. If we let them …show more content…
We are staying up late just complete our homework and makeup anything we missed. We are also staying after school to get help on a curriculum we didn’t understand. High schoolers are doing everything they can in order not to pay so much for college. I understand that there are hard working illegals out there trying everything they can do to help out their situation but my question is, since they are illegal and able to go to college why haven’t they applied for citizenship? Getting into college is already hard especially if they want to get into a university, but by allowing illegal to go to college when they don’t have citizenship is making it