I am a kid that has done nothing wrong. I was brought here by my parents as a toddler and now i'm in college and aspiring to one day start a studio / company after I graduate. But my legal situation does not allow it.

please give us students that had no choice but to come here with our parents at a young age not knowing about being legal or illegal the same opportunity as the students that were born here. Give us the thing that this country prides itelf in offering: OPPORTUNITY !

Support the DREAM ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am starting awareness of the dream act in my school as a part of my AP project and this is more than a project its something i strive to achieve and help out in my community

I want the Dream Act to pass. They deserve it!

I've been here since six grade. Now I am going to college studying criminal justice here in the USA but once I finish studying, it will be very difficult to find a job without the DREAM ACT.

I was brought here when I was 5 years old. I am now a senior in high school and I would like to pursue a career in the medical field. But without the DREAM ACT it is going to be very difficult. I might have to go to Mexico, to a country which I almost don't know, to study there. I wish I could study here, and work here. It would be a benefit not only for me, but for this country too. I encourage everyone to keep pushing for the Act to pass, so that we can all benefit from it.

I am a DREAM ACT SUPPORTER!!

It is very important for the DREAM Act to pass as soon as possible! It is unfair for many hardworking students to have to give up on their dreams.

I came to the US when i was 12 years old. I graduated from High School 3 years old and i couldnt contiue my education becuase i didnt have enought monye. I work for 3 years to save a little money in a nail salon just for $25 a day. Thanks god this year i began to continue my eduacation because my father is helping me otherwise i cant. I really want to be something in my live. I am a DREAM ACT SUPPORTER!!

It is disappointing and very frustrating that this country would allow innocent children to suffer. By not allowing the Dream Act pass, this country is permanently damaging the lives of these innocent children. Their dreams, futures shut down. By no fault of theirs these children are experiencing entrapment, this country is robbing them from flourishing properly, this country is robbing them at a chance to sincerely succeed. Beside being the land of opportunity I always thought we were a compassionate country .... isn't that supposedly many times the reason we always go to war? to the rescue of others??? Well, what about the rescue of our innocent children in this country, don't they count??? By not allowing the Dream Act pass we prevent them to be an asset to this land. Instead, we instigate them to become criminals; forge documents, falsify ID, or worse, only so they can survive, or move forward with their lives the best way they can. In many cases this country is all they know. If you were to send them back to "their Country" they would not speak or write the language in addition many of them have no family. If we do not pass the Dream Act, how inhumane!

I was actually born in the United States and I can imagine the unsatisfying feeling of not being able to continue your education and reach your goals. Therfore, I am a DREAM ACT SUPPORTER!!

I was brought here when I was 5 years old. I'm in my Senior year and my friends are excited about going to collage and going to the Army, When they ask me what I'm going to do I tell them that I might go to Mexico and visit relatives. I want to be a Police Officer here in the United States I'm so used to America sometimes I feel depressed because I was brought here, witnessed whats possible how wonderful it is here but not being able to live free. Recently our school outreach worker called a meeting for Latino Senior students and told us about this Dream Act, I feel more motivated to graduate and become successful.

"Embrace your Dreams, If you want to be a Hero you need to have dreams.....and Honor."

It is essential to the future of California and other states with large numbers of undocumented workers that their children who have lived their whole lives in this country be afforded the ability to advance themselves, live productive lives and be able to move toward citizenship.

It is essential for our future, and it is also essential for these young people who bear no responsibility in their undocumented status, whose parents keep our economies going, especially in a state like mine, California.

It amazes me that people pledge allegiance to a flag which stands for "liberty and justice for all". I cannot recall the last time that phrase was honored in this country. America is known as a melting pot, a land of immigrants, yet they want to throw out the very backbone of our country. We must bring back the ideals of "the land of the free".

I was brought her by my father when I was two yrs. He left me in the care of a cousin who raised me as a mother. Two years ago my father died in Texas, at that time I was informed of my true status as an illegal undocumented 17 year old amercican. I suport DREAM Act, I am struggling to pay for my education since I can not work legally. I have no documentation and am trying to do my best to support and inform friends, and familey on this silent issue. I am pushing to everyone to please write their local and state represenatives and declare how important DREAM ACT is and to support and pass this BILL.

i agree

I want to join the military once I get out of high school to serve this country. I really need this act approved if I want to make something out of myself.

I've been in this country for roughly 10 years and still haven't become legal. It's sad when I think I'm stuck and cannot grow career wise. I'd like to continue my education and eventually become a CPA, but cannot even sit for the exam without a social security, let alone get a job as an accountant.

I first became aware of this problem after reading Paul Cuadros' book, A Home on the Field. It stuns me that bright, young men and women could be hindered from going to college after being raised for years as Americans and after attending school beside other's whose only difference is really luck...the luck of being born on this side of the border.

I was brought to the US when i was 9 months old and i am currently 20 years old. I could've received the Bright Futures Scholarship,but since i did not have legal status i didn't qualify. I also had to reject applications to art scholarships for my artistic talents. I hope this act passes. It will save hundreds of students in my same situation.

This is the right thing to do.

it is a must that this act be brought back to the senate as early as possible, cause as the years go by many of these children are growing and also are their desire to become a respectful member of this society.

My parents have spent over $40,000 dollars with lawyers expenses and the fees to put in applications for residency that don't not even guaranteed acceptance. I came to the U.S. when i was 10 yrs old. I was legal here because my parents had work visas however, you can only live here legally with a work visa for six years then you have to apply for residency, except most of the time they will deny residency to the applicants. Six years is enough time for you to establish a life. I was in high school, we had bought a house, my whole life was here, no one wanted to leave. So we applied again for residency and were again denied. my parents left, but how was i supposed to live in Brazil when i had a such limited knowledge in Portuguese and was soon starting college here? i decided to stay here with my older brother and am currently going to college and praying that this DREAM Act is passed.

I think this would be an incredible advancement in America. I know many students who work hard and deserve to stay and work here. After all, it was not their choice to move here and their parents might have made mistakes regarding their paperwork. Why should any educated, hard-working, good-willed person be forced to leave our country??

The USA needs an immigration overhaul that would include a path to legal status for people in the United States illegally. They do our work, make our beds, watch our children, clean our yards and pick our food. Many are building our homes, shopping centers and roads. This is the time to recognize all people in the Greatest Country - USA!

I have met many good people who were brought here by their parents and have nothing to go back to in their countries. America is where they have been raised so it's fair for them to have a chance at life here.

My husband, Gabriel was brought to the US from Mexico when he was young.

He was deported, we married and have lived in Mexico for the past 12 years. He is now an Engineer, (mechanical and electrical), graduated from one of the best schools in latin america (The Tec of Monterrey, ITESM).

The US is missing out on all of the talent and potential this young professional has to offer...and hundreds of thousands like him, by denying them citizenship, punishing them for immigration crimes that were not their decisions to make, but they make the most of where they are.

STOP THE WASTE OF TALENT and EAGERNESS TO SUCCEED.
THE US NEEDS THIS BILL.

Jefferson sessions
richard shelby
lisa murowski
john mc cain
john kyl
mark pryor
blanche lambert lincoln
george s lemieux
saxby chambliss
john h isakson
michael d rapo
james risch
evan bayh
charles E grissle
pat roberts
john bunning
mitch mc connell
david vitter
mary l landrieu
thad cochran
robert wicker
christopher s bond
max baucus
john te...ster
mike johanns
ben e nelson
john eric ensign
judd a greg
richard mc burr
byron l dorgan
kay hagan
kent kent conrad
george v voinovich
thomas a coburn
james m inhofe
lindsey o graham
jim w demint
john thure
lamar alexander
bob corker
kay bailey hutchinson
john cornyn
robert f bennett
mark warner
robert c byrd
john a barrasso
michael b enzi

list of US senators who need convincing of the dream act, contact them go to the us senate website and get in touch!

these promising young men and women who are willing to stand up for themselves, despite their vulnerable immigrantion status, deserve the benefits and security of american citizenship.

Personaly, im a citizen but i have many friends who really need this act to pass. They are great people who have helped out da community in many ways and would like to do much more yet their immigration status is stopping them from doing so. I highly encourage everyone to sign this petition for a better world that will not only benefit them but us to........ who knows they might be the ones to discover a canser cure or to invent a time machine.

We are the new American Dream.

We illegal immigrants never meant to come here illegally. All we want is just a chance and we will work hard to get it.. It's just not fair for me to have a messed up life than students who skipped classes in high school, who crimed., when i tried to get as much as scholarship as i can staying up until every midnight..
i mean we would pay our taxes when dream act passes United states has nothing to lose cause we would pay just like all the other citzens..SO why not save a life..

Everyone deserves a chance to an education, and it these kids have been going to school in the USA for how long, America suppose to be a place where dreams are fulfilled, why break their dream of going to college???

Let's get this law passed, we need it!

Lets make them fuckers pass this shiT..

I hope this works out

I SIGNED IT

I was brought to the US at the age of 5, I began 1st grade here, now i attend college and i am struggling to get school paid, since it is hard to get a job when you are undocumented. I WILL become an OB/Gyn .. LETS GET THIS LAW PASSED!!!

I came to this country when i was 9 years old (2000) I graduated high school and I'm trying to go to community college but they ask me for legal status which i don't have. and my goal is to go to college and get better education. I would like to ask this organization if any one could help me get my legal papers and hopefully become a citizen. I came to this country with a visa but it expired. Please help me i don't know what to do. Thank you so much for your time.

Patrick Marques

i came to the US when i was 14. i am now 22 years old, and have been waiting for the chance to acquire higher education for almost 4 years. it's is my dream to study here, and continue my life as part of this country. I think that the importance of the dream act becoming a reality is immense, and would be forever grateful for the chance to study and better myself, for it has always been a dream of mine. Becoming somebody, someone that contributes to world, and the progress of our society as a whole in a bigger manner than cleaning people's houses or building homes for the rich.
These were some of my previous occupations as i stand to make an honest living. But not all people are the same as me. It's hard for some to stay on a solid path when they know it leads to nothing, which either drives them to live here abusing the rights this country provides, by either not paying any taxes therefore not contributing to the country's prosperity or even worse resorting to crime.

It is not the fairest of realities but also not the easiest of the decisions. But i'm sure this point has been made many times before. We were only children when we came here. I do not blame my parents for bringing me in any way. I have a good life, but as good as it is, it is also directionless.

So please, Make this happen.

For me, for all of us in the same condition as mine.

Sincerely, Guilherme Paulo

Someone who comes to this country, lives here for 5 years, obtains a high school degree, and completes 2 years of school or the military is already a more productive member of our society than many people who were actually born here. Give them citizenship!!!

These students have proven themselves and deserve to achieve their dreams that they've all worked so hard for and sacrificed so much for. This is the Land of OPPORTUNITY. Don't let their dreams be taken away from them!

This legislation is fair and will grant opportunities to many individuals, who consider America home. In fact, America is the ONLY home they know.

EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO A BETTER FUTURE... IT'S THIS GREAT COUNTRY THE COUNTRY OF OPPORTUNITIES AND A BETTER LIFE.....

there is what America is about- providing opportunities for all!

DREAM ACT I NEED IT TO BECOME SOMEONE IN LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! I WANNA BE A SUCESFULL STUDENT LOL!!!

I wish the Dream Act could be passed and put into action. It would change this country and all of our lives. I support the Dream Act!!

I support the Dream Act. Everyone should be able to get an education, despite their status.

The dream act should be passed because it lets every person with a chance of an education. and to those haters why bet your parents are immagrants to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!