Maryland's Dream Act: Links: Text of bill, proponents, and opponents of the Maryland Dream Act

Text of the Maryland Dream Act

Supporters of the MD Dream Act

CASA de Maryland

http://www.casademaryland.org/

Maryland Catholic Conference

http://www.mdcathcon.org/

The links from the Maryland Catholic Conference include, especially:
Undocumented Migrants (Pope John Paul II)

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/keeping-marylands-dream-alive/2012/05/05/gIQAg9uD4T_story.html
The Washington Post weighed in. Great material!

Houston Catholic Worker

This ministry in Texas does not address Maryland legislation, of course. But they do provide extraordinarily rich and insightful material about undocumented immigrants in their newspaper archives.

Opponents of the MD Dream Act

Help Save Maryland

http://www.helpsavemaryland.com/

MDPetitions.com

Neil Parrott, Chairman
http://MDPetitions.com

Rally for America

This is Pat McDonough’s organizational face.
http://www.rallyforamerica.net/

Intro

There are about 12 million immigrants in the United States without legal documentation. Numerous efforts to solve the challenge of illegal immigration have failed. One such effort is the Dream Act. The federal Dream Act addresses the national challenge, but there are other state efforts as well, including the Maryland Dream Act. The Maryland law deals with a very small piece of the overall issue: it would provide in-state tuition rates at community colleges and in-state tuition rates for juniors and seniors at four-year state colleges and universities, to undocumented immigrants who meet a list of conditions. The law passed in April 2011, but opponents of the bill collected signatures to force a referendum on the issue in the 2012 election. Polls in late 2011 indicated that voters were split, but the bill was likely to go down in defeat.

Many of the leaders of the opposition to the Dream Act are conservatives who identify themselves as Christian. My intent to is open and maintain a civil argument among Christians on the issue. It is not my intention to exclude anyone from the debate; I am focusing on a debate among Christians because that’s who I am.

I am convinced that Christians who oppose the Dream Act have overlooked the clear and forceful teaching of Bible and the Church throughout the ages.

The easiest example: nearly everyone makes a mistake in discussions of the Last Judgment as described in Matthew 25. Nearly everyone makes the SAME mistake -- and it’s an interesting one. (See "9 of 10 ...")

So let’s talk.