EDUCATION AND LABOR SECRETARIES MEET WITH DREAMERS AND ACTIVISTS
Looking at the bigger picture, the December meeting was with “students and members of the United States Students Association and United We Dream,” the latter of whose “Vision and Mission” is to develop a grassroots activists movement to advocate for illegal immigrant youth. The United States Student Associate states its own history “as a nascent national student union in the late forties, as a cautiously liberal organization in the fifties, as an increasingly activist federation of student governments in the sixties, as a radical antiwar outfit in the early seventies, and as a broad-based progressive advocacy group in the eighties and nineties.”
The DREAM Act, should it ever pass Congress and the Senate, would legalize all illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. before their 16th birthday for at least five years before the law took effect and who had been admitted to a college or earned a high school diploma or a general education development certificate.
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