Courtesy: Life By DREAM

There are equally important issues that we have to focus on. One of these issues gets to my heart.  It’s an issue that I discovered about 10 years ago, when someone called my office and said “I have a daughter in Chicago who has been accepted to Guilard School of Music in New York and when she was filling out the application, she turned to me and said what is my citizenship? And I had to tell her that I didn’t know.” You see, this mother, a Korean -American, had brought her daughter to this country when her daughter was two years old. And her mother never filed any papers. And so literally, her daughter was undocumented. We called the Immigration Service and said, “Her daughter has lived here for 17 years, no criminal record, she’s been a good student, now she wants to go onto college, what should she do?”

And they said the answer is obvious. She should go back to Korea [boos]. THAT is the wrong answer. That is the wrong answer for her, it’s the wrong answer for thousands of students who came to this country at a very early age, a young age, grew up here, who are part of America, who have an education and have something good to offer with their lives.

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We need to make sure that when the issue of immigration comes before us and it will, that the DREAM Act is the first item of business. We need justice for the young people in this country who want to give back to America.

See this post by S.Aran for an update from USSA. More videos will be available soon.