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The Berkeley Wire: 07.21.10

July 21, 2010 4:55 pm by Lance Knobel

Interview with new principal of Berkeley High, Pasquale Scuderi [Daily Planet]
Renowned Berkeley Lab physicist Gerson Goldhaber dies at 86 [Berkeley Lab]
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau calls on Congress to pass DREAM act [UC Berkeley]
With the opening of Paisan, will pizza frenzy hit Berkeley? [SFoodie]
BPD give time and energy today to raise funds for Special Olympics [Berkeley]

Photo of Berkeley Marina by Albert Huynh/Flickr

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  • Guest

    No offense to the supporters of the DREAM Act, but this country can’t even afford to send its own citizens to college. How many millions of citizens are doomed to poverty because they can’t get a solid education?

    Undocumented immigrants should NOT have a privilege that citizens cannot have. Why should someone be told they cannot go to college because they were born in the US? And then be told they cannot get a good job becuase they were born in the US? Fund citizens first, then left over funding can go to undocumented people.

  • http://basiscraft.com Thomas Lord

    Guest,

    The DREAM Act, according to the article, would benefit young people who arrived here 15 or younger who arrived more than 5 years prior to passing the act. To take an extreme case, suppose that a baby was brought into the country unlawfully in 1992. Now that person is 18 and let’s suppose that they’ll soon graduate high school with honors and can be easily admitted to a US college. What’s the right thing to do there? Visit the sins of the father upon…?

    Note that if the bill passes and were enacted tomorrow, it will not apply to a baby unlawfully brought in tomorrow (or, for that matter, anytime since late July of 2005). Thus it creates no new incentive for unlawfully bringing a minor into the country.

    Also note that the bill would not extend any “privilege that citizens cannot have”. On the contrary, the students in question wind up, under this bill, with less than full citizenship.

  • infoperson

    no funds are allocated for students under the dream act – it doesn’t provide any financial benefits, other than access to potential student loans – no grants or state scholarships are issued… and please, there are enough educational seats in this country for any student who wants an education.

  • Just a Dreamer…

    Please support the Dream Act…

    We were forced to come to America when we were little and had no own decision. We are High School Graduates, we speak English and want to support American Society, Economy or National Guard. Please give us a chance to prove our selfs and let our dreams come true.

  • Delatorre

    Dream act is not paying anything for student TO GO to college, its simply allowing student the chance to work and finance their own path. Yes there will be some financial assistance but that does not mean all would apply for it, and, grants and loans will probably be paid back.

    What do do think cost less, funding ICE to hunt down people and process people. or having someone in this country already become a productive citizen.

    Fines will have to be paid as well, so that money towards the tax payers.

    Please review everything the bill includes instead of assuming this is some bailout!

    in addition, some will choose to serve in the military! is that a cost or a gain!

    “but this country can’t even afford to send its own citizens to college.”

    really, whose fault is that.
    trust me, if someone really wants to go to college they will find the money, and those who can’t go to college and are citizens, its a matter of will, not opportunity.

    Those under the dream act, are hungry to gain an education.
    and will do anything legally possible to obtain that future, even if it means 8 years of collage instead of your typical 4.

  • another dreamer

    no funds are allocated for students under the dream act – it doesn’t provide any financial benefits, other than access to potential student loans – no grants or state scholarships are issued… and please, there are enough educational seats in this country for any student who wants an education.