CNN Sympathizes With Another DREAM Act Supporter
Once again, CNN sympathized with an illegal immigrant supporting the largely Democratic-sponsored DREAM Act. Anchor Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday hailed "DREAMer" Mayra Hidalgo who blistered Republicans for their rigidity on immigration.
Baldwin let Hidalgo air this message to certain Republican candidates: "Do you even have a heart?" The immigrant directed her ire at Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for saying an illegal immigrant would have to serve in the military to earn citizenship. "You're messing with people's lives," she ranted. [Video below the break. Click here for audio.]
Of course, nowhere in the story was a conservative voice opposing the DREAM Act, just soundbites from Hidalgo airing her side of the story.
"As a child of immigrants, as – an immigrant myself, I feel like my role has always been to go to school, work really hard, and have a career. And that's what I want to do, but it's so difficult when you don't have a legal status," Hidalgo lamented.
"Do you understand that, you know, these aren't just those illegals? We're humans, we're people here," she cried out at Gingrich and Romney. "There are other ways to serve this country. Just being a doctor, being an attorney – those are just as important ways to serve our country just like the military," insisted Hidalgo.
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Answer - increase allowed
Submitted by Edhenry on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:18pm.
Answer - increase allowed number of legal immigrants per year
Non-starter - break our laws, then wail against a country that allows more immigration than any country in the world.
illegals
Submitted by kinijane on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:23pm.
Amazes me how many liberals don't know the definition of Illegal.
If I break any law, I would be busted and the key thrown away, but
hey I am an American born and raised here so I am fair game.
I am sick of this crap.....
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:28pm.
Earth to Americans......find out everyone who is in this country illegally and kick their asses out of here!!!!!! I am so sick and tired of the media trumpeting the plight of people that shouldn't be here in the first place. I have a hard enough time supporting myself and my family. I don't need to listen to someone who is mooching off of our system telling me (or a political candidate) how much they are heartless. Screw the illegals.
Dude!
Submitted by ArcherB on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 9:36am.
The DREAM Act, at least how it works in Texas, is not intended to be a path to citizenship for people sneaking over the border. The Texas DREAM Act is for the kids of these people, who were dragged over here by their parents. These people were raised here, went to school here, and only speak English. By the way, in Texas schools and everything else are paid for by property and sales taxes... taxes you can't escape, so yes, they did pay taxes.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for securing the border and enforcing immigration laws by deporting those that break them. So, I'm all for deporting the parents who sneaked over here as adults, but I have a hard time branding someone "illegal" and shipping them back to country where they have no roots and don't speak the language, who really didn't break any laws. A five year old with her parents when her parents are committing a crime is not a criminal. No court in the country would prosecute that child. Why are we?
Children should not have to pay for the crimes of their parents.
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
We shouldn't even be having
Submitted by ant on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 10:59am.
We shouldn't even be having this discussion until the American people can be assured that the border is secure enough that we aren't going to be doing this all over again with another 5-10 million people down the road.
On top of that, another one of the big lies here in the news piece is that we have to help those that have been here for generations...since Reagan gave amnesty thirty years ago, as one poster said, a generation should already be legal. Plus, if they've been here for generations and still need 'help' maybe they are beyond helping. I've been here for generations too, when do I get special compensation? Or are the libs gonna start another lie, 'they're just going to the schools Americans don't want to go to.' We already know they get drivers licenses AND go to school, this is a veiled attempt to hand out goodies in exchange for votes..as evidenced by the 'Republicans are against immigrants' nonsense.
Generations?
Submitted by ArcherB on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:21pm.
Yeah, that "generations" of illegals got to me too. I confidently call BS on that since the first generation born here would be natural born citizens and NOT illegal. The only generation of illegals in this country is the generation that came here in the first place.
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Doesn't matter to me
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:27pm.
Ship them all out ASAP. These criminals come here and live on our welfare and yet bitch and moan how rotten everything is here yet gladly proclaim they are here illegally? YOU HEAR THAT, ILLEGALLY HERE. If they want socialism, go the f*** to VENEZUELA.
Mayra--this is NOT your country!
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:26pm.
If you are here illegally, then this is not your country. If you have not legally established residency, how did you get a social security card to get any benefits, a job or access to higher education?
Go back. To repeat: THIS IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY.
crying
Submitted by look on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:41pm.
I watched this w/out sound at the gym and thought about how the Liberal argument is nothing more than a woman crying on camera...
Illegals?
Submitted by Sergeant ROCK on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:46pm.
More like, as Rush says, 'Undocumented democRATS'.
Frederic Bastiat
Cry me a river
Submitted by CJohnson on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 8:52pm.
Me too, no sound; I thought it was about breast feeding.
The Dems keep calling the
Submitted by robert108 on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 9:01pm.
The Dems keep calling the illegals "immigrants", when they are actually invaders. They have no interest in assimilating into our country and culture; they're just here for the fruits of our prosperity.
That is so true. It's really
Submitted by Sude23 on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 10:34pm.
That is so true. It's really obvious when they refuse to speak english when they get here. What about a few years ago when they were talking about the "illegal immagration" thing they were all protesting saying they wanted to stay in America but all I saw was a bunch of people parading around with the Mexican flag and not the American flag. Kinda makes you wonder whose side they are on...
Umm...excuse me..
Submitted by ant on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 9:48pm.
you Dimocrats got that border all nice and secure now? No? Then shut the hell up...I, for one, don't want to hear any damn pity stories about the current illegal situation, until the probability of another future case of 'let's pity another 10 million' is off the table completely.
Exactly
Submitted by Model850 on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 5:01pm.
If the water pipe under your kitchen cabinet bursts, do you ignore the leak and stand around thinking about the best way to clean up the water that's already all over the kitchen, or do you first shut off the water to stop the flow?
You're messing with people's lives, yes!
Submitted by Injest on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 9:53pm.
Baldwin let Hidalgo air this message to certain Republican candidates: "Do you even have a heart?" The immigrant directed her ire at Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for saying an illegal immigrant would have to serve in the military to earn citizenship. "You're messing with people's lives," she ranted.
The dream act? Why would illegal immigrants only have to serve 2 years when we require an 8 year commitment from everybody else?
How bout we let immigrants join the military then after honorable service for 4 years they can go to the front of the immigrant line?......... Oh wait that's what we have done for the last 30 years what was I thinking
So this is an openly admitted
Submitted by Sude23 on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 10:44pm.
So this is an openly admitted illegal alien, does that mean immigration services will be knocking on the door to deport her and her family? The best part is they don't have to ask for papers since she admitted it right? Or would that be heartless to when following the law? I hope they do deport them.
All correct
Submitted by ant on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:24am.
And this is part of what creates a resentment in me, speaking for myself, I recall on two occasions reports of 'Revenue' agents descending on Libertarian Party conventions to take down license plates,etc. A reporter (who must have been considered a 'heretic' afterward) broadcasting about an illegal alien rally full of Mexican flags a few years back, commented out loud about that exact dicrepency in 'law-enforcement'. If you're a citizen you can get busted for everything from trimming your bushes (EPA actually did that), letting your children sell lemonade, or doing home repairs (one poor soul documented his fight between building code enforcement AND a historic preservation agency, over his front porch)....but, hey, be an illegal trespasser with undying devotion to your country of origin...no problem. Not only will you not get busted...but here's some free sh*t.
That is dumb, I mean reading
Submitted by Sude23 on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:42am.
That is dumb, I mean reading the transcript she said she is afraid to get deported when she is driving because she does not have a license because she is here illegally... I mean how many laws do you have to break before they do something...
Get your name legally changed
Submitted by Dan Diego on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 11:14pm.
Get your name legally changed on your Consular Card to Mayra Hidalgo-Soetero-Obama and you'll never have to worry about being deported.
copy of her immigration application
Submitted by Injest on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 11:40pm.
Mayra Hidalgo "You're messing with people's lives," she ranted. So even asking for a minimum 2 year vice 8 year commitment is asking too much?
This was not a rant this was a whine
blistered Republicans for their rigidity on immigration.
Please name the Republican who is against legal immigration?
To those who ignorantly spout our immigration system is broken and needs reform, I say bull our legal immigration system is ignored!
AS Mayra Hidalgo makes it clear no reform will work, it will just be ignored. Need proof? Just ask Mayra Hidalgo for a copy of her immigration application along with the rejection letter. I would bet $10K she has neither.
All this because some
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:54am.
All this because some Frenchman scribbled: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
on the Statue of Liberty? Can we take that back now? We have our own poor, tired and huddled masses longing to be free... but DC won't allow that freedom...
We just need a sign that says
Submitted by Sude23 on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:58am.
We just need a sign that says 'No Vacancies' or 'Please Stand in line like everyone else'.
My parents knew some of the illegals
Submitted by stunned on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:06am.
My parents knew people that came here illegally from Ireland and they and their legal immigrant friends were quite mad when Reagan gave them amnesty. The people that came illegally, worked, owned businesses and never paid taxes and bragged how they lived better the the legals. They shamelessly played the system and finally got amnesty as a reward and boy did that burn my Dad. He said those that came here illegally never respected our government or its laws. They broke more than immigration laws as well, in business and were people NOT to be trusted as they moved on and changed the buisness's name after conning people, and he often warned people to stay far away from doing business with people like that since their lives revolved around lies and deceit they were corrupt. They often bragged they lived better than those born here by not having to pay any taxes.
But they all lined up for the anmnesty and complained AFTER getting citizenship about having to pay the "damn taxes" and that citizenship wasn't worth it. One guy bragged after getting his citizenship about all the dodges he pulled afterward to avoid jury duty and told my Dad he was an idiot for being mad at someone dodging their responsiblities. My parents spent 8 and 6 years waiting to come here and my father said that he never took a day in America for granted and people never appreciate something they get for nothing, unlike the illegals who had only contempt for our country and its laws.
Dad loved Reagan but at the time of the his amnesty plan he said he called him a bloody fool and said in thirty years there would be twice as many illegals in the country. Dear ole Dad was right as usual.
tired of liberal lies
Beautiful, Stunned!
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:11am.
I truly wish you'd take that post, put it in the Forums, and expand upon the details.
Your father was a very wise man.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
No. You people don't have a heart.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:09am.
Don't your realize there are millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people that will come here illegally but are denied the chance because their country does not physically share a border with the United States?
Please. Have a heart everyone. Let's relax the standards to board an airplane or ship to come to the United States. That way our illegal population will have more of a melting pot feel and not be predominantly Mexican because Mexico shares a long border with the United States and you simply have to walk across line in the dirt to arrive illegally.
Please. Have a heart. Let the illegals face some competition when they tug the emotional heartstrings. It is not fair that Mexicans illegals have the monopoly on sad stories.
Let anyone board an airplane to come here without any paperwork. Let's hear some sad stories from an Indonesian illegal for once. Or a Maldivian. Yeah, a Maldivian sad story. Not enough of those We need more Maldivian sad stories from CNN.
Wait! How about a Georgian?
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:11am.
No, NOT DAVE!
Maybe someone from Botswana? No wait, a New Zealander. Yeah, that's the ticket!
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Here here Vet!
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:21am.
This country was built on the backs of poor dumb bastards who escaped oppression. That MUST apply today right? I mean really, why should we desire the worlds best and brightest when we can accept the poor and stupid? After all, we have unlimited wealth here in the USA! The liberal wet dream of helping the worlds poor still applies right? Well hell, yes of course it does! DAMN STRAIGHT! GIVE US YOUR POOR WORLD!!! WE DEMAND IT!!
"Do you even have a heart?"
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:14am.
"Do you even have a heart?"
Wow! Do these people have a brain?
Thousands of Americans have been KILLED by illegals. There are rapes, extortions, fraud, kidnappings, and assaults. Not to mentions the billions of our tax money that is given away to them in the form of free schools, hospital, legal fees, incarcerations and welfare.
What? these people live in an alternate reality?
And did you know..
Submitted by ant on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 2:36am.
I saw this with my own eyes on actual arrest records and it was confirmed by a former FBI agent that wrote a book on law enforcement... Hispanics that are victims of crime are categorized as 'hispanic'. Hispanics (illegally speaking) that commit crimes are reported as 'white'. The agent explained how 'hate-crime' statistics are terribly and deliberately skewed.
If a Hispanic attacks a Hispanic. It's a hate crime committed by a 'white' against a hispanic. If a Hispanic attacks a black person. It's a hate crime committed by a 'white' against a 'black'. They don't want people to be enraged by the real numbers.
How about a 2-tier tax system
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 9:45am.
Citizens and legal residents pay the citizen's rates and illegal residents pay double that?
That's fair.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
2-tier?
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 9:52am.
Voters that vote for social systems pay a progressive rate between 10% and 60%.
Voters that oppose social solutions pay a flat 9.5%