--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Ocelocihuatzin Moyolehuani Necahual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
From: Ocelocihuatzin Moyolehuani Necahual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Dream Act divides undocumented youth and is anti-working class and
anti-Mexican
To:
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:02 AM
thanks brian for sending out the information on the promotion of the Dream Act
to the new president.
The Dream Act was at one time a progressive piece of legislation that supported
the idea of the legalization of undocumented youth who attended high school in
the u.s. and then went on to u.s. colleges. The dilemna was then & continues to
be now, that many of these young people would get university degrees and then
after would still be undocumented and couldnt work in the fields they studied.
A movement of undocumented youth demanding their right to be legal was a just
demand and at that time needed to be supported by all.
HOWEVER, THE DREAM ACT HAS CHANGED.IT CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE SUPPORTED IN ITS
PRESENT FORM. IT MUST CHANGE. It has become a military piece of
legislation with an educational cover- it now promotes as a pathway to
legalization, the path thru the military, in other words, the undocumented
youth going to kill and die in Iraq and Afghanistan. We in the immigrant
movement cannot support this. There are many documents to show that the
military is completely behind this bill now in its present form. Maybe some
stupid red necks are against the Dream Act, but it doesnt mean therefore it is
good and that we should support it.
Young people are learning that they dont want to join the military and go to
kill and die in the middle east. Therefore recruitment numbers are down. So the
only way the system would support legislation to legalize undocumented students
was to attach to this legislation a military component. But for a movement to
promote a bill that would put our vulnerable young undocumented youth in harms
way is unacceptable!
THE DREAM ACT PROMOTES ONE PATHWAY TO LEGALIZATION FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED IS TO
JOIN THE MILITARY. RIGHT NOW, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR THE MILITARY TO GO INTO THE
SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE AND RECRUIT THE UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH. LEGALLY, THE
RECRUITERS CANNOT RECRUIT THE UNDOCUMENTED.
By passing the Dream Act, it will become legal for the military to go and prey
on our undocumented kids. WHO WANTS THIS? UN DANO CONTRA UNO ES UN DANO CONTRA
TODOS.
We cannot support legislation that would allow some to go to college and
facilitate the majority going into the battlefield! As the Dream Act is
presently written, we cannot support it as a progressive piece of legislation.
The promoters of the Dream Act(those on high who support this legislation
whoever they might be) hide and/or ignore/or minimize the military component of
this legislation!
We in the immigrants rights movement must bring this point out into the light
of day!
We as a community of US born and foreign born, documented and undocumented,
immigrants from the middle classes and immigrants from the working class,
immigrants from Mexico and Latin America and immigrants from across the sea, we
cannot be divided. We cannot base our movement on self interest and ignore the
needs of the majority by thinking 'ME FIRST" This kind of mentality is exactly
the mentality of those who say no to the foreign born. It is the same exact
mentality to support this legislation so that some can succeed while others
will die in the trenches.
Our movement must be united. No to the Dream Act as presently written. We
support the Dream Act only when the military component is removed from it.
Why is the Dream Act anti-Mexican? Because the majority of the undocumented
youth are Mexican. But it will only be a small minority of this group (the
Mexican youth)that will go to college. The majority of the youth who will join
the military will be the Mexican youth. To come to this country from Mexico,
one only needs to cross the border, the poorest of the immigrants are the
Mexican immigrants. The undocumented who come from overseas are from the lower
middle classes, from the merchant classes in the main. Statistically speaking,
it will be the children from these other classes who will be the beneficiaries
of the Dream Act. This is not to say that no Mexican youth will benefit from
the Dream Act.
Of course because of the sheer volume and numbers of undocumented Mexican
youth, there will be Mexican youth who would benefit from the Dream Act.
However, the overwhelming majority will be the Mexican youth who the military
will prey on and whose only way to legalization will be to go off to war.
There is no way that the immigrant movement should support such a bill Nor can
the peace movement support this either.
Legalization for all! The proponents of the Dream Act must repudiate the
military section of this bill! No pathway to legalization thru more
militarization! No preying on undocumented youth by the military!
United we stand, Divided we Fall.
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