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video: In-State Tuition Policy Drives Wedge Between Illegal Aliens and American Citizens - What Could Possibly Be Wrong With That?

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, as it's better known, has been around since 2002. It's never passed Congress. But the bill, which would allow states to offer illegal aliens in-state tuition, create amnesty and a path to citizenship, has been reintroduced to the House by Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida. Kris Kobach of the University of Missouri-Kansas City said: "The DREAM Act is a nightmare when it comes to the rule of law. First of all, it gives in-state tuition to illegal aliens who are violating the law. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens who follow the law from out of state, they have to pay full tuition. Secondly, it's part of a massive amnesty for illegal aliens who happen to attend college." Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform said: "This legislation directly affects the middle class in the United States. Not only are they rewarding people who broke the law, but they are essentially taking resources away from middle class kids in the United States. And essentially, what they're saying is we're going to deny seats at a public university to an American kid."
[Our take: The reasoning among the Kleenex crowd is that the children of illegal aliens shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of their parents and therefore should be entitled to in-state college tuition rates. A more compelling argument is that out-of-state American students shouldn't be held responsible for where their parents chose to live either, so why shouldn't they qualify for in-state tuition too?]

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video: DHS Caves in Again - This Time Real ID Act Compliance Extended for Another 18 Months

There are new concessions by the administration to get reluctant states to sign on to the Real ID Act. The law requires national standards for driver's licenses to be put in place over a year from now. But the deadline for compliance has been extended. States can take an extra 18 months to meet new minimum driver's licenses standards under the Real ID Act. The Department of Homeland Security said the delay was necessary because the agency took longer than expected to issue new rules. The 9/11 Commission recommended tightening standards. Seventeen of the 18 hijackers had multiple forms of identification. Identity was at the root of everything that went wrong on 9/11. Still, 24 states are considering legislation to not comply with the new standards because of funding and privacy concerns.

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video: Congressmen Want to Pressure Communist China on WTO Compliance

Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan and Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter have reintroduced the fair currency bill to hold communist China accountable for unfair trade practices.. According to Ryan, China is subsidizing their goods coming over here. "They're not doing it in the traditional way. They're doing through a series of economic and financial maneuvers to manipulate the value of their currency. And they have a 40 percent advantage over American goods. We're calling that a subsidy in our bill. And it should be subject to countervailing duties. Meaning if they keep doing it, we should put a tariff on their goods." This common-sense legislation only asks that China live up to the standards it agreed to when it joined the WTO.

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KOTV - Tulsa, OK: Illegal Immigrants, A Costly Problem

The U.S. Department of Justice recently audited 100 illegal immigrants arrested for criminal activity in 2004. Results showed 73 of them re-offended a total of 429 times.

The Justice Department calls them ‘criminal aliens.’ During the year of the audit, there were more than 260,000 'criminal aliens' in America. Too often, results showed local authorities "catch and release" 'criminal aliens,' without contacting immigration officials. There are more than 12 million illegal immigrants in America. The vast majority of them come to work and support their families. As with any group, there will be exceptions.

With two grown kids and JC heading off to college in a few years, Robin and Randy Burger were looking forward to the future until Robin got a call from an ER nurse, just after Christmas. "She had to let me know that my husband had been in a car accident and I said 'Is he okay?' and I just knew," says Robin Burger. Robin says she couldn't breathe when she learned she'd lost her husband of 28 years, the Burger family's rock. "He was real. He was a real person. He believed in the Lord and he believed in certain values and people that knew him knew that.” Jim Gilchrist brought his Minuteman Project message to Tulsa recently with a warning for cities that fail to enforce immigration law. "If you do not enforce those laws, even if you don't have a budget allocated for it, it will cost you dearly."

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Investors Business Daily: Even Texas Has Had Enough

The home state of the president who said compassion does not stop at the border now says that allowing those seeking a better life to come does not mean denying it to those already here. Not long ago, George W. Bush was governor of Texas, praising the benefits to his state and this nation of immigrants, legal and illegal. He still does, but his political heirs in a state that has a 1,200-mile border with Mexico have embraced a slightly different view. A recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 1.4 million to 1.6 million illegal aliens reside in Texas, about 14% of the U.S. total. Another study, this one from the Lone Star Foundation in Austin, said illegal aliens drain $4.5 billion from the Texas economy, mostly in health care costs. As a result, a growing number of Texas politicians on both sides of the aisle are seeking, in the absence of what they perceive to be meaningful action from Washington, to put the brakes on what was once a relative trickle and is now a flood. State Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, is the author of one of more than two dozen proposals that target illegal immigration in Texas, proposals that amount to more stick and less carrot.

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