Set Text Size:     AILA Urges Congress to Support the DREAM Act
Cite as "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 10120210 (posted Dec. 2, 2010)"
Thursday, December 2, 2010 George Tzamaras Jenny Werwa
WASHINGTON, DC -The American Immigration Lawyers Association
(AILA) calls upon Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that
will strengthen our economy, our military, and our entire
nation. If enacted, the DREAM Act will would give legal status
to immigrant youth who were brought to the United States by
their parents, grew up in this country, excelled in school here,
and now want to go to college or serve in our military.  "This
legislation should be a no-brainer," said David Leopold,
President of AILA. "Each year, it would give an estimated 65,000
high school graduates who were brought to this country as
children - Americans in every sense but for their lack of
documentation - the chance to fulfill their potential in the
only country many of them think of as home." Studies have shown
that these promising youth would contribute