The dream act! stage 5

Don’t we all just hate that all of the immigrants are taking our jobs and they are one of the main reasons why the united states is in major debt! They are just a bunch of uneducated criminals that are overcrowding our jails! Yeah, sure, there are a lot of those out there, but there are a lot of legal people doing the same, or even worse, why should the ones that actually come here to work and just go to school pay for what others do? If a child is brought into the country illegally there is no method of becoming a legal resident. Returning to their country of birth would not guarantee a path to legal status. Attempts to come back legally are often difficult, with roadblocks such as ten year ban on re-entering the U.S. which would cause even more issues, especially for those that have family here. They would do anything again to re-enter the U.S to see their family. Why should anyone that was brought to this country as a child, or even a young teenager be punished for something that they didn’t have a choice? Quite often families of immigrants come to the US to give their kids a better life, chance to live, and have what they couldn’t afford back at their home country. I don’t think that they should be treated as criminals for something that they didn’t even do. Some or most of those kids grow up with your kids sharing toys, a good laugh, or being best friends at some point in life. The only difference would be their culture, color, and how much money their parents make a year!
Almost everyone argues that if you weren't born here you should go back to where you came from! It is something that I hear almost everyday. We the people are entitled to our own opinion, but I would like for you to not just go off a simple assumption and become well informed. You should read and discover the foundations of our country. If we go back a few hundred years and look on the map we were actually part of Spain. What holds this country to the ground is the foreign policy. This country needs the support of immigrants and many people may act like it’s not true but it is. If we are going to send all the immigrants back then everyone would have to leave, except for the Native Americans of course. Even the person that founded America was from Geneva Italy! Yes I do agree that some illegal immigrants are criminals and drug dealers and what ever people call them, but last time I checked there are also white people, black people, Asians and Europeans in jail. Not all of them are criminals! We should definitely try to work something out and set some ground rules, we can’t lose control of what goes in and out of the country, and we need to give these people the opportunity to be better!
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act aka the “Dream act” has been around for almost a decade, and this year it was introduced in the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives in March 26, 2009. One more time, what is the “dream act”? The dream act would provide certain immigrants the opportunity to earn permanent residency in the United states, they would have the right to go to school and work in the US for a temporary time, around six years, and on the time being the person would either have or must attend college and earn a two or four year degree, or serve the military forces for two years in order to earn a citizenship. Over 2.6 million kids that are illegal will graduate from high school this year, some will join the military forces and some just will get a job to help their family. On top of all that the student must have a clean record, and know English!



http://www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/DREAM/Dream001.htm

Stage 6 Response - Obesity

Laura you sure do have a great argument, and so does Alex from his comment. No one can argue against the fact that America is the number one country on high obesity rate. But I don’t think that the government is the one to be blame. We, the people, brought it upon our selves. Growing up in Brazil a country that prides it self in appearance and body image, it was shocking to see the number of overweight people, especially among children and teenagers. Should we blame the government or the parents for what their kids look like? Time did change; I remember back in the day when we spent most of the day outside, running around, playing some type of sport. We now have computers and video games too, which is insane to see the number of not just kids but adults over the age of 21 that plays video games in a daily basis for over hours! Sure there are McDonalds on every corner and fast food sure is cheaper than going to the grocery store and buying food to make a healthy meal. I grew up eating every type of vegetable and fruit, because my parents wanted to eat right. Why save a little money now by eating like crap. My parents took the responsibility of keeping us healthy themselves so I think that other parents should be held responsible for their children! Not the Government.

No return, we need to act!

The disease the spreads faster than a pague is killin thousands of people around the world, and what are we doing to prevent it? In 2006 The Center for Disease Control and prevention estimated that 56,ooo pleople just aroung the country were newly infected with H.I.V, imagine around the world, an estimated 1,051,875 people have been diagnosed with AIDS in America. Thats just rediculous, so today, right now at this moment there is more than one million people living around us with HIV, more than half a million die after developing AIDS. President Obama should make clrear to the people that AIDS kills, its not treatable, we spend millionson research, Magic Jonhson might look like he's doing great, he is, but he also has enough money to take care of him and make sure that he gets the best treatment out there, but what about the people that can hardly afford to buy food and shelter? we cant forget about that, i like this editorial and how the author is not hidding the reallity of it, HIV is affecting everyone in one way. The case of HIV is highly among the lower classes speacialy among African Americans and Latinos, An estimated 3,792 children under 13 were living with AIDS at the end of 2007. Thats not counting the people that dont even know that they have the virous. I am glad that a new campaign announced by the Obama administration to combat complacency about the disease and its potential to strike the unwary, we the people need to know that HIV is out there, and we need to keep informed. IT IS NOT TREATABLE, we must! make sure that the new government will spread the word. It will take time and alot of our tax dollars but if the Government dont act now the numbers will double overnight. When you get it its with you till you take your last breath, there's no return, we must act, the Government must act quick!




http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/opinion/20mon3.html?ref=opinion