The Republican party continues to stay strong on their beliefs on immigrants and their status. The Dream Act was never really accepted by the Republican party yet they are trying to 'show' that they are willing to still offer some sort of altered proposition. The Senator of Florida, Marco Rubio, for example has been working to offer a striped down version of the Dream Act. Rubio is suggesting to offer legalization to immigrants in the military or enrolled college students, BUT without offering them citizenship. The article quotes Rubio saying: "You can legalize someone without putting them on the path to citizenship." Rubio's fear was also addressed: by granting citizenship to immigrants, they would only file papers for their relatives to also gain citizenship. Ridiculous. The author describes this status as a newly invented status for immigrants-'not illegal, but not American.'
I could not agree more. I understand that the Republican party needs to address this issue in order to gain Hispanic votes, but this is not the way. Sadly, I think the Hispanic voters might take to this as a sign that additional change may come from it as well, but who knows. This could just be something that is going to be offered to get votes and then discarded.
The author of the article does well in finishing the article by stating that: Republicans are only showing how much they have diverted from the American ideals of assimilation and welcome.
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