DREAM Act Could Impact 700,000 Immigrants

The Sunday Denver Post included a sad and interesting editorial on the prospective DREAM Act and the 700,000 undocumented immigrants it could impact. The DREAM Act would give conditional permanent residence to young people who enter the country illegally under the age of 16 and attend college or serve in the military.

Daniel Glick of High Country News followed the journey of a young Taiwanese man named Chih Tsung Kao, who illegally entered the United States with his family when he was four years old. Chih attended high school and college (at the Colorado School of Mines) in the United States. After college, Chih refused to spend his life working in the service sector, but couldn't get a job as an engineer. Without options in the United States, Chih made the difficult decision to return to his native Taiwan - where he had a job offer and could contribute to society.

Chih's story is, unfortunately, all too common among teenagers and young adults in the United States. If adopted, the DREAM Act could provide options for children like Chih, who enter the United States unknowingly and are later left completely without options.

Read the Denver Post article here:

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_15906274

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