Make this dream come true.

I have just graduated high school (class of 2010) and my parents keep pressuring me to go back to my home country, Brazil. I've been here since I was 12 and I barely speak portuguese anymore. If I was to ever go back, I would have such a hard time. I love it here, and do not want to go back. If this act was ever to be passed, other outstanding students and myself would have the opportunity to start their lives where they have been for a long time. I truly hope this act is passed because it would change my life just like others.

We need this law to pass as soon as possible, it's a shame to see some fellow classmates not going to school when they were doing terrific in High School. I sincerely think passing this law will improve the USA in so many ways.

I just read Helen Thorpe's book 'Just Like Us' which has made me aware how important it is to pass this proposal.

"The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own." Theodore Roosevelt

I think that many good people that are undocumented are not given an equal opportunity to educate themselves. How can we hold them responsible as a whole for acting in manners in which we may not dream appropriate when we condemn them. We condemn by not allowing them into our higher education systems without paying exuberant fees. If they had the chance to purse a higher education then we might expose our nation to ideas that never would have been known. I say let's give everyone a chance to experience the freedom to be anything they want and to achieve their fullest potential.

I am a 69 year old citizen born in the USA who has worked with students of all ages for many years. I have watched several undocumented students excell beyone expectations. I hold them up to the students I mentor (usually documented students) as examples of kids who have risen above it all and are proud of the USA and have great hopes. They are productive and need to be given the chance to become productive citizens. They did not commit any crime, and they would have nowhere to go if depoorted.

Please pass this act. This would be a step in the right direction for immigration reform. These kids were not brought to this country on their accord and it would not be "right" to deport them, especially, when for many of them, this is the only country they know.

Please support the dream act! :)

I believe that the dream act should be passed by congress immediately. I have studied with students and currently know many friends that are studying with great intention and ideas based on the american dream but can not do so because of the lack of structure in immigration. This dream act will help many moral students achieve their success which have been held away from them for many years. Students are the core of our nation and especially those students that actually work hard in their studies.

Every fiber in my body wants this DREAM act to o through- Education is what keeps us together, and pulls us ahead. It breaks my heart to see that being taken away from someone, right in front of them. Education is golden. Something like that should be a right, not a privilage.

Help the these bright, young adults live a better future. They have earned it by going to school and graduating like any other U.S. Citizen. Unlike others, many of these students actually appreciate the education they receive here in the United States. We need the DREAM ACT!

We need this to continue our education and become someone great in America.

Please make this happen

Many, if not most of the illegal immigrants here in the United States were brought here as young, innocent children, who were unknowing. They should not be punished for a decision that was completely out of their hands. If the DREAM ACT passes, it would touch and change so many lives. Is it so wrong to want to be given a chance to prove yourself? There are many Americans that take what they have for granted. And what they don't realize is that there are so many people who would give anything, who dream of one day having the the same rights as they do.

Young students need it.

Obama, please pass the dream act. Immigrant children should have the right to be free! and have a good education has anybody else.

i think this law is a great thing ! my soon to be wife was brought to this country when she was 8 and just graduated from arizona state university with a degree in construction engineering . she was also the president of the arizona chapter of the national association of home builders and was awarded honors as being the top her class from the fulton school of engineering . she is best and deserves the same rights we all take for granted.

How can we proudly call USA the Land of the free when we block from millions of young adults the right of having an education or career? The sons of many immigrants that did not have a choice but to follow their guardians to an unknown land "of opportunities".
Those against this Act have no heart and don't have a clue, how humiliating and devastating it really is for a bright kid to grow under such environment without hope of future.
For the future generations of America pass this bill...

THis would be great if it were to pass to many children out there and adults facing deportation due to something there parents did.

Hopefully it passes

I really hope this passes for the sake of the people who had no voice in what happens to them as children.. i really hope this passes

Pass the dream act, we need help!
14 years of school for is too much to not be able to go to college or get a job. It's not fair to us who didn't have a say on if they wanted to enter the country illegaly.

Every day there are people who wake up and dream and dream... but there are others who wake up and work hard to fulfill their dreams... We, who came to this country, came in search of better opportunities and in search of our dreams. We didn't come here to be served but to contribute to our communities. Through the Dream Act we ask for the opportunity to serve our communities and contribute to this nation.

We are not Criminals for trying to accomplish our dreams and contribute to this beautiful country, we work hard in school, and are among the top students in our classes.
Need Help To Finish School!!

The DREAM Act does not only represent the dream of earning a degree, but it also stands for hope, perseverance and the struggle many students put into their dreams.
It also represents equal opportunities for any one who wants to pursue an education regardless of his/her immigration status in accordance to the federal case Plyler vs. Doe.
I firmly support and advocate for the passage of the Dream Act into law because it's better to provide education to those willing to further their academic pursuits, than to have them roaming the streets and become crime statistics.

I represent our youth daily...it is extremely important to give all youth the best of all possibilities!

Lets Go Dream Act!!!!

I grew up in America, I see America as a mother to me, that who gave me birth, gave fruit and amongst them is me. I am not a criminal, I was brought here at age 11. I've never been in problems with the law, never even infringed any sort of local regulations. I AM an abiding citizen. Why should I be set apart from the other harvest that America has to offer to its people? I am now 19 in college with a full ride, yet everyday I wake up with fear that my dreams will never come true. DREAM ACT NOW!

Necesitamos una oportunidad!
We need an opportunity!

Todos juntos por un mismo sue?o!
Together for the same dream!

Please pass the Dream Act NOW!
I personally work with many families who are caught here out of desperation and now in poverty here! This is because now they can't even find work here and can't scrape enough money together to go back to MX where they have nothing and no family support.

Many of these families have school aged children who were brought here when there was amnesty for their parents. Now, these young people are caught in a limbo of no future in MX or here because they are considered "illegal". This is in spite of the fact that they have received an American education.

Stop this nightmare for these families by passing this law that will bring some compassion to the lives of people who came here on hoping to have a future for their loved ones.

Pass the dream act !!
We need this help!

Pass The Dream Act Please !

Im praying day and night for this act i was brought here at only 7 months i was raised here and have known no other place but the U.S.A i love the oppurtunities thre are here i may not be the brighteset but i try my best i want to do better i want to study hard because i know i can do it but as an illegal immigrant tuition is 3x wat a in state pay intead of one class costing 200 it would cost me 1,000. What do i have to do to get a chance i was brought here as a child around the american culture i went to this schools i grew up here, i want to become leagal i want a chance to prove my self PLEASE i know no other home but the U.S.A

This students deserve a chance i have seen many of my friends with 3.8 gpa become construction workers they have the potential to do great things but they cann not afford school i see kids giving up saying what the point if at the end i cant go any higher. please help them some of them have been here sinc they were one raised here in this culture knowing no other place but here so what exactly makes Someone an american if they love this country they work for it and know and are glad of how fortunate they are

I hope this bill is passed to aide those who didn't decide to come to this country. They were brought here and raised here and are now expected to go back a country they hardly even know. What is wrong with allowing the best students we immigrants have be apart of this country? Most of them are competing and even beating the "white" students! So what is so wrong about this bill?

I have been in this great country since 1992 at the young age of 9 years old. This is my home. I have worked here legally, paid all my taxes, and even donated thousands of dollars to the United Way for people that are less fortunate in my community. My parents and only sibling are United States Citizens, and have chosen the legal path to citizenship. I have done the same, and I know that all Americans are in favor of legal citizenship. However, I need to tell you how a flaw in the legal path to citizenship is now affecting my life as I know it. After many years in the proccess, and at the current age of 27 I was forced to refile all of my immigration paperwork because USCIS lost and negelected my file. In August 2009 I refiled under my mother, using form I-130 and Because I am over the age of 21, i am not considered as an immediate family member. Sadly this means that I have to wait an additional 4 years before a visa is available for me. My priority date is August of 2009, and currently the visa dept., is on priority date in 2005 for visas.. As a result, I can not renew my work permit, I have lost my job/career, I am going to lose my house, which I purchased at the age of 22, and I will be homeless, with no way to support myself for the next 4 years.

LETS GO OBAMA ! LETS MAKE THIS DREAM COME TRUE.

I am very much in favor of the DREAM Act in terms of allowing those brought here as children, who know no other life, to be allowed a streamlined path to LPR status.

I just want to go to college and be a law abiding citizen who will do nothin but benefit our country. this dream act will make that a reality.

i'm graduating next year and this dream act will benefit our communities and people so much. I'm really hoping to go to college and without legal status this will be very hard. please help.

I'm a conservative republican who supports the Dream Act. I'm looking forward to more Republicans joining Sam Brownback and Richard Lugar in supporting this bill desperately needed.

Pass the dream act already!
It's about time kids who were brought to the U.S by their parents will have a legal situation so they can study and have a decent job!

PASS THE DREAM ACT!

This act is the last chance I, and thousands of others, have to a normal life. The immigration process is a long one and many can spend years here legally while paperwork is being done, once a decision is finally reached the children have already been living, and growing, in America. To deny us a right to a future is a slap to the face for many of us who feel as American Patriots and are willing to give so much to a country which isn't willing to give us a chance. The dream act is needed for us to serve this great country and ensure the AMERICAN dream lives on.

pass this bill! we need a law that will help millions of kids that were brought here by their parents and had no choice!

This will make people happy and it will benefit the United States.

I have seen so many children in this position : Being brought to this country at a young age, and not having a say in wether or not they believed it was a good idea or not. Yet, regardless of anything they had to say or could have said, they are here in the US, going to school, doing well, working hard and living a day to day worry that they could be deported to a country they cannot remember or to a place where they have no one. This is America, isn't it? The land of the FREE? There have to be exceptions to these rules and I refuse to see another child, teenager and young adult be left behind because of a mistake or decision that was out of their hands, putting them in a long term struggle in the United States. Please, understand and imagine if your own children were in that situation and really see how this affects the families and mental well being of these children. It is time to make a stand and I will proudly take part in it!
- Anjelica Vasquez

As I type this, my very good friend of mine is telling me his story of his journey to get here. He was just 9 years old. When in school, I don't think of those around me as anything. When I find out that they're "aliens" or as I call them, unequal citizens. I want to be an officer in the U.S. military, and so does he. However, I have the key to be an officer, SSN, he does not. It kills me deep inside to know that my friend cannot be what he wants to be just because he does not have those golden nine digits. This Act is really important to me but more importantly to my friend and to the many others who I wish had the same opportunities as I do, whether older or younger. Please pass this into law.

I've graduated high school and now i'm stuck. During school I held high grades never missed school and was a part of school activities. I very much wish to attend a college were i can make a better life for myself and show my younger sister and brothers that it can be possible to obtain a great life. I support this act 100%. With this act passed myself and others in this situation can move on and make themselves a better person.

i would love to get more information on the Dream Act.

I'm 23 years old, and I graduated from College 1 year ago with my Bachelor's in Business Management and a minors in Accounting. It was very hard studying and at the same time working just to manke enough to pay for school and books. Now, I'm stuck woking at a place where I don't get pay what I deserve, my employer takes advantage of many people who are in the same situation as I am. Every day I read the news, and all I hope is to one day hear that I can apply for something that can give me a chance to get my situation straight, and give me the chance to utilize my education to its full extend. I want to help my community and be a good citizen on this great nation, I don't know anything else but to be an American.