Today's debate over the DREAM act is confusing and many-faceted. The main idea that I get from proponents of the bill is that, if we're empathetic to those who were brought here through no efforts of their own, i.e., by their parents who would be considered illegal immigrants, then we should give them permanent citizen status. The debate rages on and I'm sure that nothing I say here will change that, but when I look at the changing picture of America, I question why anyone would actually think that we, as a nation, really are that empathetic. I look around and see mean-spirited America in just about every aspect of our present-day society. To think that America is some feel-good, help-those-in-need country is absurd.
There may have been a time when this notion carried weight, but that time is only a hazy memory that began fading some 40 years ago. So when a politically driven effort bases it's rationale on our 'caring' history, they shouldn't assume that America is still worthy of that distinction.
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