Comments on: Students ‘dream’ of brighter future

By: Elaina

Elaina — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:44:59 +0000

Wher is MY DREAM as a citizen???

By: 1983 Alum

1983 Alum — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:31:25 +0000

Feamma, any person or persons not legally in the USA is an ILLEGAL (S). Period, Get it.

Marylanders should never have to expect their tax dollars to fund the education of ILLEGALS. The legislature should have never passed the bill in the first place.

Now if you want fund ILLEGALS education, then you can donate to them personally and not demand the state fund their education.

By: KeysUP

KeysUP — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:42:12 +0000

Towson should put more effort into recruiting Maryland students and less time luring in the international students. This is a Maryland state school. We need to be more xenocentric.

By: gary

gary — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:17:38 +0000

Ok first off, this is not fair. There parents did bring them here but why have they not took the time to be come citizens of this country. Then this would not be needed. They just do not want to give up their citizenship to there home country incase they every want to go back home and live like kings after the money they earned here. My mother-inlaw is from another country. She married my wifes father and came here that way. She did not have to go threw the process to become a citizen, but thought it was the right thing to do if she was going to live here. It does not cost that much it just means you have to learn about the country you are living in and take a test to prove it, and the test is only in English. So I saw no to this question if you want the break for schools then become part of this country and not a visitor!

By: Edie

Edie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:25:21 +0000

JaY, I don’t think the majority of people doubt that these children or their parents are human. And yes, they have dreams just like U.S. citizens. However, the difficulty they are having is the fault of their parent. And I don’t think that we should have to put our own children’s dreams of college and a good future at risk because these children parents broke the law in coming here or bring their children here. We all have dreams. But let me say this again. Our children have dreams and we have dreams for them also. The dreams that we have and our children have are just as real and mean just as much. We shouldn’t have to compete with those who should not even be here. Our children are no less human than these children of illegal immigrants. And their parents did not break the law by being here. The illegal immigrant did. Or doesn’t the dreams that we and our children have matter?

By: Alfredo Lozano

Alfredo Lozano — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:47:32 +0000

DREAMers were brought to this country through no fault of their own and have made it their home. They should be able to be educated here as well.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:37:15 +0000

I think what’s most disturbing here beyond all of the technicalities is the fact that nobody is ever looking at these “illegal immigrants” as people. I don’t know enough about the DREAM Act to support or condemn it knowledgeably, but I’m enough of a decent person to recognize that the people in question are not all selfish, conniving savages out to squeeze the American taxpayer out of their hard earned American money for the American dream. They are kids who were brought here without a choice and have the same dreams as any other HUMAN BEING. They are human beings. They are not thoughtless, mooching robots “invading” our country. Again, I neither agree or disagree with this act nor do I wish to be lectured on it at the moment, just pointing out the immense amount of blanket statements made by just about everyone on a certain demographic.

By: Edie

Edie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:19:58 +0000

You can say that these children did not break the law, this is true. Their parents did. And their illegal immigrant parents are responsible bringing here. You can talk about the American Dream and how they wanted a better life for their children, but the fact remains, they have not only broken our immigration laws, they have brought their kids here illegally also. And now those same parents (and the pro-illegal immigrant advocates) want U.S. citizens to fix the difficulties that they have put their children in. You intentionally, I believe, refuse to look at the children of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants and how they would be affected by this. Because no matter how you cut it, they will have to compete for those college slots, if the children of illegal immigrants are given in-state tuition. Even if those illegal immigrant parents paid four or five years of income taxes , the U.S. citizens have paid taxes all the life of their children for eighteen years or more. It is not a matter of kids deserving an education, it is a matter of fairness . A parent whose has spent the last eighteen years or more paying taxes should not have their child/children bumped because an illegal immigrant brought their child/children into this country illegally. It’s not right, it’s not fair and it is certainly not just. Stop looking at just the children of illegal immigrants. U.S. children count in this, every bit as much of the children brought here illegally by their parent. They didn’t break the law and neither did their parents.

By: Matt H

Matt H — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:10 +0000

Illegal is illegal. Simple as that. “Undocumented workers” are illegal immigrants who deserve to be deported, not given special treatment.

“We cannot continue to allow illegal immigration. A country that loses control of its borders is not a country. The Constitution of the United States obligates the government to protect the states from foreign invasion. If we can send an army halfway around the world to defend the borders of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, why can’t we defend the borders of the United States? I will build a security fence. We will seal the borders of this country cold. We will stop the illegal immigration in its tracks. ” -Pat Buchanan

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:31:01 +0000

The Toilet light keeps censoring.