Ah, well that explains the irrelevant reference to the California Supreme Court. Kids like this are effectively American, but their parents are still illegal aliens. As long as this program does not allow the parents to do an end-run around the legitimate immigration system (that others devote years to navigating), it is a benefit for America.

What about the Millions of illegal aliens that the Rev. Sundborg doesn't know personally and isn't charging $30,000 a year to atttend his school?

Many other illegal aliens make other choices, like some on this list.

http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/wanted.php

Perhaps "Hernando" should return to his native land and help promote change and prosperity there. I am sure his parents would love to escort him and stay to support him as well.

The Dream Act should not be approved.

The DREAM Act would let undocumented students "give back"? Sounds more like Reverend Sundborg is instilling a sense of entitlement. School Superintendent? Yeah, right. More likely Hernando has dreams of starting his own non-profit advocacy group. And that is not "giving back" to the country that sees their own kids denied the same assistance universities fall over themselves to provide those perceived victims of social "injustice".

I'm with dbreneman here. How is it fair to penalize students who had no choice in the matter when their parents decided to come to this country illegally? Hernando is as American as my Uncle Dave was (he came to this country—legally—at about the same age).

So Hernando gets his citizenship via the Dream ACT and exercises his family reunification rights as a citizen to get his parents legal status in the US ahead of all of those ignorant, law abiding people who assumed that playing by the rules was preferable to breaking the law and waiting for the rules to be changed.

Thanks for the clarification.

All people born to parents who came here after 6,000BC should be deported. You people are all living on stolen land. Just because your great great great grandfather stole it doesn't make it legal for you to possess it even if you had nothing to do with the original theft.

Back to Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, Japan, China, Africa with the lot of you! This country would be better it was empty of you children of thieves!

Keep going GaryP! Your timeline arguement is laughable. Children of thieves? Really? Do you have real solutions that don't involve depopulating the planet?

Ah, yes, 6,000 BC. Those were the good old days.

"6,000 BC. Those were the good old days."... yep no formal boundaries except those your tribe could enforce.

The point is that "immigration" is concept that only recently came into being. Prior to that tribes raided each other for women and possessions and as a rite of passage for the young men.

What we should focus on is that we want all the really smart people to stay here in our country, start a business, employ a lot of people, make a lot of money, spend that money here, and pay taxes on it. That's how true wealth is created. The last thing we should be doing is educating these kids, spending all that money & time on them, and then throwing them away.

Yes some of you think that it we just issue id cards and travel papers and toss everybody out who doesn't have them. But if you look at why these people came you might realize that we #1 benefit from the work they do, #2 have often destroyed their ability to earn a living wage in their home country. So either lets get serious and penalize all those meat packing, farmers, lawn maintenance, construction companies which hire illegal aliens, put the executives in jail ought to do it. Or figure out a way to let guest workers in and work toward citizenship, kids included.

"The last thing we should be doing is educating these kids, spending all that money & time on them, and then throwing them away."

The first thing we should do is educate our own kids. While we have myriad non-profit advocacy groups, and government policies, to assist the immigrant student our homegrown kids are left to fend for themselves. There is little to no financial aid for them. And with tuition rates rising faster than health care costs, many are being priced out of the institutions their parents helped build. In that respect, immigrant students should take a place at the back of the line; after we've processed the applications of American students.

If we have space left over for educating "undocumented" students, maybe, the BEST thing we can do is send them back home - educated - to help solve the problems that sends their country's kids abroad, in the first place.

If we're going to train them to be successful leaders in their countries of origin, we'd better start teaching them how to be bloodthirsty mobsters and corrupt politicians. Countries like Mexico are failed states.

"start teaching them how to be bloodthirsty mobsters and corrupt politicians"

Yep there is such a place. "School of the Americas" it's where we teach dictators and thugs how to torture socialist priests and peasants under the guise of government.

Why do you hate America so much GaryP? You obviously don't feel like it's worth defending from any sort of invasion, internal or external.

You complain that in a time when we have extremely high unemployment and limited resources we should import as many unskilled laborers as can crawl across the border from the tip of South America, north, give them food, clothing, shelter, education, healthcare and not demand anything in return. They don't need to follow our laws, they don't need to assimilate. Thats quite the fantasy world you have constructed for yourself. You blame America first, last and always.

Thanks for this article and for taking a firm position in a very touchy subject. I also support the DREAM Act. It's one thing to talk about people who sneak up seasonably to make a few dollars to send home, and quite another about those who are brought over as children, usually with no choice in the matter, and are scarcely old enough to even remember their home countries, let alone return and make a life there.

I don't think Socialists should be tortured, GaryP. They should be executed on the spot. :-)