CBS Finds Sympathetic College Student to Use to Promote Obama’s Push for ‘Dream Act’
Pedro Ramirez knows his “future depends on” President Barack Obama’s success in passing “immigration reform,” specifically the “Dream Act,” CBS’s John Blackstone asserted in a Tuesday night story which corroborated the need for Obama’s quest by holding up Ramirez as an innocent victim.
“He is student body president at California State University at Fresno where he'll graduate this month following years of accomplishment,” Blackstone heralded, “until his parents admitted to him they've been living here illegally since he was three years old. Last year he joined other young undocumented immigrants pushing for passage of the Dream Act. It would award legal residency to children brought to America before they were 16 as long as they graduate from high school and go on to college or the military.”
Linking Ramirez’s plight to Obama’s policy solution, Blackstone asserted: “On the Texas border today, the President called for those who want immigration reform to help push an entrenched Congress.”
CBS News political analyst John Dickerson soon helpfully pointed out: “The most specific thing the President can talk about at the moment is how much tougher he's been on illegal immigrants than in previous administrations.”
Blackstone concluded: “Meanwhile, in the next few weeks some 65,000 students who came here illegally as children will graduate from high school, but for now they'll face a life in the shadows in America.”
2006: “ABC & NBC Celebrate Princeton Salutatorian Who's an Illegal”
From the Tuesday, May 10 CBS Evening News:
KATIE COURIC: In other news tonight, President Obama has made his first trip to the border with Mexico since taking office. Speaking in El Paso, Texas, he said the border is more secure now than ever before. Reason enough, he said, for Congress to act on immigration reform for the eleven million people living in the U.S. illegally. Here's John Blackstone.
JOHN BLACKSTONE: For Pedro Ramirez, there is one hard fact about immigration reform -- his future depends on it.
PEDRO RAMIREZ: I have aspirations and dreams just like anybody else.
BLACKSTONE: He is student body president at California State University at Fresno where he'll graduate this month following years of accomplishment.
RAMIREZ: In sports I did marching band and I did extracurricular activities and I excelled academically. And so I felt I was as American as anybody else.
BLACKSTONE: Until his parents admitted to him they've been living here illegally since he was three years old. Last year he joined other young undocumented immigrants pushing for passage of the Dream Act. It would award legal residency to children brought to America before they were 16 as long as they graduate from high school and go on to college or the military. Supporters of the Dream Act were disappointed when the Senate failed to join the House in passing it in December. On the Texas border today, the President called for those who want immigration reform to help push an entrenched Congress.
BARACK OBAMA: We can do it.
BLACKSTONE: The President is trying to satisfy disenchanted Latino voters who helped get him elected.
U.S. REP. LUIS GUTIERREZ, (D) ILLINOIS: I would like to see a community marching in lockstep with this President, but two years transpired, nothing happened in the Congress.
BLACKSTONE: For Republicans in Congress, strengthening border security is a higher priority than anything that could be seen as amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
JOHN DICKERSON, CBS NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: The most specific thing the President can talk about at the moment is how much tougher he's been on illegal immigrants than in previous administrations. Republicans challenge that.
BLACKSTONE: Meanwhile, in the next few weeks some 65,000 students who came here illegally as children will graduate from high school, but for now they'll face a life in the shadows in America. John Blackstone, CBS News, San Francisco.
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Deport him
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:41am.
and his parents. He can go to college in Mexico.
Out of state.
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 5:41pm.
...and bill him for the education he's received at the expense of the taxpayers. If my child went to a school in California from another state, I would have to pay out of state tuition. I think it's racist that he doesn't.
Sounds to me like they're pretty much out in the open
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:55am.
"Meanwhile, in the next few weeks some 65,000 students who came here illegally as children will graduate from high school, but for now they'll face a life in the shadows in America."
How can one go to a public high school and still considered to be "in the shadows"? Do they sit in darkened classrooms by themselves?
The nightmare act is in place
Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:58am.
The nightmare act is in place of a "comprehensive immigration" plan. When the larger plan has gotten no traction, they drag out this incremental plan and if passed build on it like dimocrats have done to every program that they have ever wanted. Look at the long road of incrementalism that has taken us from a largely capitalist model to, if fully implemented, a socialist model for our health care.
Meanwhile, our borders are not secure. So that is lie number one from duhbama that is being swore to by the lamestream media.
The second lie is that it is Republicans that want this. The truth is that overwhelmingly the American people want secure borders.
And, of course, their is no conservative voice in this news piece whatsoever.
The word games are ridiculous.
Submitted by Jimcinsc on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:42am.
First they change 'illegal alien' to 'undocumented immigrant.' I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, and most other Americans, for that matter, they are here illegally, and should be treated as illegals. Period. End of story.
Dumba**
Submitted by owr084 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:53am.
Never occurred to him to as his parents to see his birth certificate? Never had to present a birth certificate to get into college?
Things have gotten way too lax. I have had to produce a BC to get into college, get a scholarship, join the military, get a clearance, get a job, etc.
I think he knew and was not going to ask. Oh, and is he going to refund the difference between in-state and out of state tuition rates?
Deport him! He should take the challenge of going back to his home country and try to make it a better place to live.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Submitted by Meredith1966 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:54am.
I'm sorry about your situation, young Pedro Ramirez, but direct your angst at your parents who apparently lied to you for all those years and gave you the problem you now have. And, when you've finished that, visit the nearest embassy or consulate of the country from which your parents emigrated from and find out what you need to do to establish residency in that country. Once there (you have to physically move there for this to work), and once you've established residency, please visit the nearest embassy or consulate of The United States of American and find out what you need to do to in order to legally move here, establish residency, apply for a green card, and finally obtain citizenship.
There you go, problem solved. We don't need a 'Dream Act', for a procedure to handle cases such as yours is already in place.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
That's right. We already
Submitted by povertypimpin on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:15am.
That's right. We already have a path to legal residency and citizenship in the US. If that is your dream than go for it. With a degree from a US college and a fluency in both Spanish and English you should have no problem finding a job in your native country. In fact many foreign students in the US do go back to their home country to work and live. Then you can follow the path that Meredith1966 prescribed to come back to America.
Dream Act! LOL
Submitted by ROSIE RIGHT on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:13pm.
He's (duhbama) building his TEAT Party! He is drooling over all the fraudulent votes he and his minions can drudge up to forward their sinister socialist agenda as the illegals swarm in.
I HAVE A DREAM*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:28pm.
One day, the politicians and the liberal media will treat ordinary American citizens with the same support, respect, and all the entitlements given to illegals.
Yes, I know. Its just a dream.
I'm for half the Dream Act
Submitted by jackieaxe on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:16pm.
If Pedro Ramirez wants to join the Armed forces, I'd support a path to citizenship!
Those college students are so smart
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:31pm.
We should put them in charge of everything and just shut up.
After all, they know everything about everything, anyway.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Arrest and deport him and
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:37pm.
Arrest and deport him and bill the bill for any government money spent on this loser.
Tea Party will appose any illegal immigration reform
Submitted by Brittanicus on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:45pm.
On March 17, 2011, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada speculated for reasons known to himself, that the TEA PARTY would be short lived and disappear? Where he came up with this hypothesis makes the Tea Party branch members laugh, as the Tea Party is continually growing and now in the tens of millions. As of today there are thousands of these cells, as the spirited Founder and chair Rev. William Temple of Freedom Jamboree and the Tea Party National Straw Poll Convention explained at the news conference. Temple reprimanded the majority Speaker of the House Republicans, John Boehner. He had not sufficiently pushed for a cut in the massive federal deficit of 14.5 Trillion dollars and climbing each day. One of the main issues that must be exposed is the distraction of the illegal immigration invasion. This is currently associated with jobs, the economy, gasoline prices and banks that not lending to home buyers.
In El Paso, Texas, yesterday president Obama made a speech relating border security and the need to allow more immigrants into America? My assumption we should ask the 22 million Americans who are unable to find a full time jobs, specifically the poorer workers who don’t have a higher education? So just what we necessitate is more immigrant labor so says the President? According to the president’s speech and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano the border is more secure now, than it’s ever been? Yet according to the General Accounting office “illegal aliens can only be stopped along 129 miles of our nearly 2,000 mile long border with Mexico and along only 2 miles of our nearly 4,000 mile long border with Canada!" Local Border Sheriffs Larry Dever of Cochise County and Paul Babeu of Pinal County and anonymous Border agents have a different attitude to Obama’s statement.
The border region is more dangerous than ever before? That the border is so dangerous, that there are signs indicating these certain areas are off limits to the American public. Rep. Michele Bachmann, Senator Rand Paul, key leadership of the Tea Party opposes measures of easing immigration restrictions. Over the previous 3 decades, our borders have become less effective, with easy access in some locations to illegal immigrants, increasing the flood while the enforcement of our existing immigration laws have fallen on deaf ears. Rep. Bachmann stated, " I support legislation that first addresses our most urgent problem: securing America's borders. We must start by using new technologies such as electronic surveillance where most effective. We need to enforce current laws by holding responsible those who willfully violate our nation's immigration laws.”
Bachmann also co-sponsored declaring English as the official language of the US. Activists have said remove incentives and rewards to illegal aliens such as licenses, welfare, and other taxpayer services. Senator Rand Paul in my personal letter said, “I also believe that subsidizing something creates more of it, and I do not think the American taxpayers should be forced to pay for welfare, medical care and other expenses for illegal immigrants. I will work to stop those taxpayer funded benefits." America is a land of charitable and compassionate people, but our generosity and principles are being strained and being abused by those who are willing to break the law, taking our jobs and our tax dollars. Why is it not a felony to enter the United States without permission? Today these individuals are protesting and demanding even more from the taxpayers, in the form of education, health care, services that is provided to citizens and legal residents.
The Tea Party America's has declared that the illegal alien population will begin to shrink instead of growing, if we support candidates that will reflect the will of the vast majority of American citizens. The revolt within the Republican Party is the TEA PARTY who is resentful of both political parties having agendas to support their individual empowerment. This accounts for thousands of extra votes for Democrats and for the GOP exploitable cheap labor. Neither is the belief of the TEA PARTY that wants stronger enforcement at the North and Southern border, which includes a National Guard presence, with the ability to kill drug smuggling, weapons and illegal immigrants, with force if necessary? Furthermore, the mandated use of the new version of E-Verify, that carries tough penalties for businesses that hire workers, without legal status. In addition, the Permanent operation of “Secure Communities” in local police locations, to fingerprint and check their criminal charges through ICE data bases.
The Tea Party will not tolerate any further Amnesties, after the Great 1986 Amnesty laws were ignored by both parties. Internally in America, 20 million illegal aliens still find work in notorious businesses of every classification. The 2006 Secure (Double) Fence Act was intentionally unfunded just months after being enacted. The Tea Party apposes Sanctuary Cities, Chain Migration and the court mishandled instant citizen for babies intentionally conceived to gain entrance for illegal parents into America. The Dream Act, which in turn will add to the Chain Migration and Immigration Reform, a misleading name for Amnesty. All these lenient rewards, just encourages further exploitation and a unfettered magnet to financial benefits and public services once crossing the border or overstaying expired visas. The American people have woken up and each day are finding that the Tea Party (perhaps third party) are more like their middle class interpretation that they are striving for? The Tea Party stands somewhere between Democrats and Republicans in definition, as moderate Conservatism have received amazing results in such a short time. So Join the TEA PARTY as the revolution has just begun, to fade out the radical people who run this country. Skilled immigrants with high profession job expertise will receive the hospitality of all Americans, including the Tea party members. But we must stop the unfettered incursion of people, who will need welfare assistance and will displace impoverished Americans who still have a manual jobs.