[Blindtlk] Information about dreamers needed

Laz laz at talkingmp3players.com
Fri Sep 15 16:53:29 UTC 2017


My family was escaping from communism. We had to give up all our
property and possessions in order to leave. It took us that long to do
it legally but then my family tended to always to things legally... As
someone who arrived in this country legally I feel I should have a lot
more rights than anyone who arrived here illegally.

On 9/15/17, Cindy Ray via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> What brought your family here in 1965? By the way, this is not a debate.
> The
> president of the National Federation of the Blind has written asking for
> this sort of information. People who came here illegally came here to
> escape
> oppression and to find ways to make money, and countless other reasons.
> They
> felt pressured and as if they didn't have choices. There are a few who came
> here escaping being caught for crimes, but mostly not, I think. The young
> people, though, mostly had no say as to what was happening to them. So
> should they be deported to countries they don't know? I suspect this isn't
> the place to raise those questions, but the questions are well worth your
> consideration.
> Cindy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laz via
> blindtlk
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 11:25 AM
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> Cc: Laz <laz at talkingmp3players.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Information about dreamers needed
>
> Hmm. Really? Why didn't they enter the country legally? I'm asking
> because I entered the country legally back in 1965 along with my
> family. I would think I should have more rights than these people who
> didn't bother to take the necessary and legal steps to enter the
> country legally... Sounds like they just came in to be a burden on the
> tax payers and anyone who has ever worked legally is aware of that tax
> bite on their income. If this was a debate I'm starting to see which
> side I would fall into on this one
>
> Something about this just doesn't make sense so I'm obviously missing
> some important facts on this subject.
>
> On 9/15/17, Cindy Ray via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> These are young people who fall under the care of the Deferred Action
> Child
>> Advocacy Act. Many of them came here with parents who did not enter the
>> country legally; many may have just entered alone, I think, though don't
>> quote me on this. They have been granted the right to work and study
>> here.
>> I
>> can't remember the exact meaning of DREAM acronym here. In any case, the
>> president is trying to remove the DACA Act, thus enabling these young
>> people, many of whom have never lived anywhere else, to countries they
> know
>> nothing about. There is more about it, but this is in short.
>> Cindy Lou Ray
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laz via
>> blindtlk
>> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:51 AM
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Laz <laz at talkingmp3players.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Information about dreamers needed
>>
>> Okay, I'll bite. What are DREAMers?
>>
>> Laz
>>
>> On 9/15/17, adrijana prokopenko via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> This is coming from the national federation of the blind.
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