Dream equal happiness

   As I was going through my classmates’ blogs, I came across one of the commentary that was particularly important for me. The commentary was wrote by “the republic” whereby he agrees that the DREAM act is not and immigration bill and the only purpose of that bill is to allow illegal immigrant to pay in-state tuition fee in Texas colleges and universities. I completely disagree with his tough and I think group of activist name “Dreamers” are pursuing a good cause.

   The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) is an American legislative proposal first introduced in the Senate on August 1, 2001 and most recently reintroduced there on May 11, 2011. The act would provide conditional permanent residency to certain illegal aliens of good moral character who graduate from US high schools, arrived in the US as minors, and lived in the country continuously for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment. Having that said, we can understand that, the DREAM act give the ability to illegal Texans to get a permanent residency in order for them to practice in their field of study. For me that mean the DREAM act is definitively an immigration act. My colleague is having a misunderstanding between the in-state tuition act signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2005 that allowed illegal immigrants (Texas resident) to pay the in-state tuition fee and the DREAM act that will talked about earlier. The in-state tuition bill does not give their beneficiaries a possibility to work or to get a permanent residency.