State senator Luz Robles holds Alina Camacho as they listen to members of the Salt Lake Dream Team and the Campaign for the American Dream prior to walking from the state capitol to Salt Lake Community College in Taylorsville in support of the DREAM Act Thursday, May 8, 2012. (Submission date: 05/10/2012)
Brian Nicholson, Deseret News
If your parents brought you here illegally when you where a minor, and you are still here illegally, President Obama's so called Justice Department won't deport you. I understand the sympathy being expressed in the Dream Act, but it's flawed logic.
If you get a speeding ticket, don't try this one on the judge. "Your honor, my parents used to speed when I was a kid in the car with them, so it's not my fault that's how I learned to drive."
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The "flawed logic" is all Mr. Larsen's.
A better analogy would be if the driver was speeding and so the police threw everyone in the car, including the baby in the car-seat, in jail.
For a State in which the majority of its citizens claim to live under the Fulness of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, a Gospel that teaches we are sinners, and lawbreakers and therefore in need of the kindness and love of another Being to be More..
The reality is that the Justice Department has nothing to do with an act that has never passed. This is really a rant against the Administration and a problem that has existed for a very long time and is not unique to the current Administration. In More..