From Deseret News archives:
Hispanics cheer 'DREAM'
Senator urges 300 community leaders to push legislation
Hatch then urged the 300 leaders there to work with just as much zeal to win support from their home-state senators for his Development, Relief and Education for Minors (DREAM) Act. The bill is blocked by some fellow Republicans who fear it would offer amnesty to children of illegal aliens and invite more illegal immigration.
"It's not amnesty. It is a way of helping these young people to earn their rights to an education and jobs and citizenship, ultimately if they live good lives and get an education," Hatch said to more applause.
Hatch is pushing the bill to allow illegal aliens who entered the country before age 16 and at least five years before the bill is enacted to quality for federal college loans and work study (but not grants). It also clarifies that states may give them in-state tuition rates, which Utah already offers.
"It would be a great mistake to allow them to continue the suffering of the consequences of their parents' illegal behavior. It would be a shame, to say the least, for them to be removed to unfamiliar foreign countries that . . . they never had anything to do (with), where the opportunities are so limited," Hatch said.
He gave the example of Danny King Cairo of Utah, born in Mexico to a single mother who later came to America illegally. Cairo's mother abandoned him at age 14. He lived on the streets of Salt Lake City for three years until the Kevin King family took him in and helped him graduate from high school.
He is now studying broadcast journalism at the University of Utah, where education is helping him to escape far from the streets that offered little opportunity. "Danny is the perfect illustration of what can happen if a young person is given a chance," Hatch said.
"When I was on the street I resorted to survival options like crime or exploiting social services," Cairo said Tuesday.
He now works with kids who are trying to make something of themselves and he promotes the idea of higher education to Hispanic and other children who may have disadvantages to going.
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