Risking deportation and criminal charges, three undocumented Kansas City-area students were arrested yesterday in a Washington, D.C., immigration protest. Two have been released, and one remains behind bars.
Capitol Police arrested Diana Martinez, 18, a recent graduate of Shawnee Mission West High School, and Ricardo Quinones, 20, a University of Kansas psychology student, while engaging in a sit-in in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. They were booked on disorderly conduct charges and released.
The two were among a larger group demanding that senators pass the DREAM Act, which promises the children of illegal immigrants a process to become permanent citizens. The bill has languished in the Senate for a decade, and the Kansas/Missouri DREAM Alliance says there is finally support to pass it. But Nevada Sen. Harry Reid won't bring the bill to the floor.
A third Kansas City resident, Myrna Orozco, was arrested for unlawful entry and trespassing at Arizona Sen. John McCain's office.
Erin Fleming, the KS/MO DREAM Alliance's policy and media coordinator, said Orozco showed her Mexican passport to the police as identification, which got ICE involved in the Rockhurst
University student's case and raised the possibility of deportation.
"They're not legally bound to begin the deportation process, but they could," Fleming said.
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Stupid fucking beaners. I'm on tv and haven't been deported. Just shut the fuck up and quit calling attention to yourself.
Ay caramba
These students should be asking their own governments for help in pursuing their education. Ask the Mexican consulate why they won't help you to register and obtain the educational benefits you are entitled to in Mexico? The DREAM ACT is a back-door amnesty. The DREAM Act discriminates against those that played by the rules by putting illegal alien students on a shorter track to citizenship than other LEGAL permanent residents. It is a reward and windfall of benefits to the families that brought them here at the expense and to the detriment of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants and of course, U.S. taxpayers.
These illegal alien students have every right and opportunity to go to college in their home nations and often for very little tuition. Mexican nationals can go to the National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico for FREE. The DREAM ACT is a discriminatory law that places illegal aliens in a better position than other foreign nationals who come here legally to go to school on student visas. The DREAM Act discriminates against U.S. citizen students as well, because illegal aliens will be allowed in-state tuition discounts where out-of-state u.s citizens will not. The DREAM Act is a sham, there is no requirement that the illegals EVER complete a degree or GRADUATE from any college. This is a ruse on the American public for amnesty. There are 25 million unemployed Americans and their families struggling to find a way to pay for their kids' college education....we don't need to have illegal aliens competing for limited financial aid dollars with our own citizens.
to all the racist comments above, please be advise that when one comes or jumps the border (actually it is a little bit more complicated than that but who the %#$% cares right?) over, first and foremost you have got to realize that most of the protesters came here when they were pretty young. Second, one as a child has no choice but to accompany their migrating parents. thirdly and very much to and for your information they are not only from Mexico, there are several countries within the american continent that speak Spanish, educate yourself before writing with so much hate.
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