Baltimore County teacher David Cooper said he was growing uncomfortable talking to his students about college when he knew they didn't all have a fair chance of attending.
Cooper, a seventh grade math teacher at Deer Park Middle School, is one of the speakers at a Saturday Baltimore event defending the Maryland DREAM Act, which would allow certain undocumented immigrants to attend state colleges at in-state tuition rates, ahead of the November ballot. Following the press conference, supportors will canvass Baltimore neighborhoods to discuss the issue.
"I have a hard time as a teacher telling students they have equal rights to college when they don't," he said.
Cooper, whose class theme is Dream Chasers, said there are a good number of students at Deer Park who would be impacted by the DREAM Act, but he hopes students not affected would be moved by empathy for their peers. He said denying students equal opportunities to higher education would cause the state to lose potential talent.
"I want there to be an investment in all my students," he said.
Cooper's purpose in attending the press conference, which is hosted by Baltimore nonprofit The Intersection, is to advocate for the DREAM Act and dispel myths surrounding it.
"It's about fairness," he said.
A recently released poll conducted by Democratic political consultants revealed that the majority of Maryland voters were in favor of the act.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/0929/Potential-voter-registration-fraud-in-Florida-GOP-s-own-ACORN-scandal
CAUGHT AND FIRED! But you say voter fraud does not exist. Which is it Steve?
"The Palm Beach Post has reported that the Republican Party of Florida has cut ties to a company it paid more than $1.3 million to register new voters. This follows the revelation that Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher identified 106 questionable registration applications."
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2012/09/univision-video-fast-and-furious-scandal.html Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers. "“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.” Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).” That operation was Fast and Furious. The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report. “Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the Univision report reads." But all this death and mayhem is "nothing" to you.
http://mvpproject.org/in-the-news/va-military-absentee-ballots-going-awol-in-2012/ FREDERICKSBURG — A 92 percent drop in absentee-ballot requests by military personnel in Virginia is raising concerns that the Pentagon is failing to carry out a federal voting law. With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year — out of 126,251 service members in the state —the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down. And it’s not just in the Old Dominion. MVPP Executive Director Eric Eversole reports significant declines in absentee-ballot requests by service members across the nation. Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole’s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That’s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.
While ACORN was used, supported defended and paid for by the Democrats for decades until their demise.
Joe is just pulling his typical antics by trying to post as much worthless crap as he can to try and deflect from the subject at hand. It's kind like a kid sticking his fingers in his ears and stomping his feet.
"A new chart put together by the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee finds that, since 2001, the "number of non-citizens on food stamps quadrupled." Here's the chart detailing the growth in regards to non-citizens: In 2001, according to data obtained by the United States Department of Agriculture, about 425,000 non-citizens were on the food stamp rolls. In 2003, that number increased to 519,000, in 2006 it was 795,000, and in 2009, when President Obama took office, it was 994,000. Now, in 2012, it's estimated that 1,634,000 non-citizens are on food stamps. That means, since President Obama took office, the non-citizenson food stamps has nearly doubled. " The 1996 welfare reform law significantly restricted food stamp eligibility for non-citizen immigrants. However, the 2002 farm bill reversed this policy, restoring eligibility and making the enrollment of non-citizen immigrants a high priority," the Senate Budget Committee explains. "Beginning in 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of State, and the Mexican government began an ongoing partnership to increase enrollment in food stamps, and other USDA nutrition welfare programs, to eligible Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals living and working in the United States. Today, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service website highlights that outreach is provided through 50 Mexican consulates in the U.S."
Links are your friend, Joe, it's not tough to do. It's also considerably easier on both the eyes both for people who want to actually read your material, and to help keep the thread length to something tolerable. Another pro-tip: If you are a liberal, don't pull data from a clearly liberal media source. Conservatives, same goes to you. The first thing I do, when I actually choose to review someone's content, is do a quick background check on the author and/or the site where the material is found. Context is everything. Oh, and I did enjoy Lorna's comment at 6:53. Almost spit out my water laughing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cvLeQbwuKys
I'd rather hire a immigrant artisan.
If these teachers want to support the Dream Act they should educate illegals on their own time after school.