California Dreaming Act gives higher education hope to illegal aliens

California Dreaming Act gives higher education hope to illegal aliensExaminer.comThe added expenses and lax enforcement have many anti-amnesty organizations upset about a state law that would encourage more illegal immigration practices. ...and more?? Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Melissa Brouse - Sep 27, 2010 - 8:36 AM PDT
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Sep 27, 2010 - 11:57 AM PDT

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Katie Boswell
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by Katie Boswell - Sep. 30, 2010

One-sided and biased opinion piece. Only includes quotes from the anti-amnesty perspective and makes unsubstantiated claims and generalizations, e.g. "one sector of the state’s residents that haven’t suffered cuts are illegal aliens." For fair and informative commentary on the California Dreaming Act, look elsewhere.

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Che Bajandas
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by Che Bajandas - Oct. 14, 2010

This opinion piece is very clear in it's argument: California is favoring illegal immigrants over its legal citizens by proposing the Dream Act. The author provides a number of statistics to which we are given no source, and many of the arguments that the author uses are quotes from other "critics". One quote is provided from the author of the bill, which actually supports this writer's argument that the bill is very costly, and one quote is provided from PR Newswire to give a factoid about the bill. The rest of the quotes are from various opponents of the bill, and the first half of the piece hangs on these. The second half of the piece provides a whole host of statistics, once again without a source, about the condition that ... More »

This opinion piece frames the issue of the dream act as an issue of money. The piece starts immediately by pointing out the financial difficulties of the state of California, and all the quotes and information that follow are commenting on the cost of the act and how it will be a burden on taxpayers. Near the end of the piece the author details the cost of going to college and how fees continue to increase which ties together the money issue of the dream act as well as its intention ... More »

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Cristian King
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by Cristian King - Oct. 7, 2010

A clearly one sided article that was poorly sourced and did not help expand on the issue of the DREAM Act. The author did not give the supporting side of the DREAM Act any time, and the article was poorly sourced with such vague terms as "critics" and "proponents". The article did not help clear the confusion of the issue; it merely exacerbated the problem by spreading misinformation by omitting information that works against its main argument. Overall not a good piece of journalism to help understand the complexity of the DREAM Act.

The article is framed to make it look like the DREAM Act simply takes money away from eligible US citizens and gives it to illegal immigrants, which is an immense oversimplification of the legislation. The article portrays the economy to be hurting everyone but illegal immigrants ("one sector of the state’s residents that haven’t suffered cuts are illegal aliens.") making the article have a theme of the "rich get richer" (from an illegal immigrant perspective, if that makes any sense.)

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Melissa Brouse
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by Melissa Brouse - Sep. 27, 2010
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