Romney and Gingrich DREAM Act support smells of demagoguery and not-so-subtle GOP racism

See Dreamers as no more than canon fodder

Albor Ruiz

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 6:00 AM

GOP presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich (left) and Mitt Romney, listen to National Anthem before start of debate in Jacksonville, Fla., last week.

The two leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, keep going around proclaiming at the top of their lungs that they would support a DREAM Act — but only for young immigrants who join the military, but not for college students.
“That is an insulting idea,” said Daniela Alulema, 25, a leader in the struggle for passage of the DREAM Act. “What they are saying is that we are good only for war.”


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