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A Sleeper Amnesty: Time to Wake Up from the DREAM Act
Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Kris W. Kobach
Series: Backgrounder
Topic: Law and ethics (Immigration law)
Keywords: Immigration; alien; amnesty; Kobach
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The so-called DREAM Act contains numerous provisions that reward illegal aliens for violating federal immigration law. It also expressly shields 10 states from liability for their past violations of federal law. Moreover, it would create a massive amnesty by opening a wide path to citizenship for any alien who entered the country before the age of 16.