When I lived in Fairfax I often saw a car with the bumper sticker “Mean People Suck.” I thought about that today when I heard the “Dream Act” didn’t pass the Senate. Actually, it would have passed if the Senate had been acting according to the Constitution, since 55 Senators voted to bring the bill to the floor. The Senate, however, has decided 60 Senators are needed for the final vote.
Imagine your parents are fleeing violence in El Salvador. It is 1994. They manage to sneak across the Rio Grande. You are two years old. You end up in Los Angeles. You attend schools in L.A., and although you can speak some Spanish, you speak English without an accent. You did well in grade school and high school, and you were accepted into Cal State Fullerton. You plan to major in computer science. You are 18 years old, and you have never been to El Salvador, don’t remember it, don’t know anyone there.
Yesterday the Senate decided (by minority vote) that you could not be a citizen. After all, “What part of illegal don’t you understand?” You muist be deported.
Mean people suck.
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