The Dream Act-- talk about no-brainers.
750,000 young adults who are here, didn't choose to come here, most of whom aren't going anywhere, many of whom have nowhere else to go.
Now, which is the better plan?
a) Give them a choice between military service and college
or
b) Give them a choice between low-paid illegal employment (i.e. grunt work for cash under the table) or better-paid illegal employment selling crack.
However, this may be part of my weak grasp on economics. Perhaps Republican senators are profiting from plan b) in ways that I can't quite figure out.
Low-paid = gardeners, nannies, housekeepers. That's easy. How the crack-dealers fit into the Republican economic view is, I agree, a mystery. Perhaps as validation of "otherness" as criminal?
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