DREAM Act Analysis

Everyone who lives in the United States deserves the opportunity for their chance at higher education and a job, but there is a group of Americans who are restricted to the access of this opportunity. This group is known as undocumented students. For all Americans, in this case the undocumented, to have the same access to that opportunity, a piece of legislation needs to be passed in Congress. This legislation is known as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act). The passage of the DREAM Act would give millions of undocumented students the chance at an affordable education and path to citizenship that will better their lives and the lives of all Americans in the United States (1). 2001 was the first time the DREAM Act was introduced in Washington. This Act would give undocumented students temporary legal status so that they could have in-state tuition in the state they lived in, and a chance at citizenship so that once they earned their degree, they could get a job in their field (1). When this Act failed to pass, undocumented students from all over the United States worked as hard as …show more content…
With this statistic, it is said that not being able to recruit younger people for the military is a bigger threat to national security than letting undocumented immigrants serve. The DREAM Act would cause that stat to go down drastically. Robert M. Gates relayed that truth to the American people when he said, “The DREAM Act would expand the pool of eligible youth who could benefit our military’s readiness,” (6). In other words, our military would be gifted with thousands of young men and women like Alejandro who want to serve for the country they call home. If we do not even give them that small chance of hope, then millions of students will say to themselves what Alejandro told the world in the documentary, “Why try if I can’t get there?”