Thursday, April 02, 2009

New Jersey Governor Corzine Supports DREAMs and Other Pro-Immigrant Measures

New Jersey Governor Corzine also supports the DREAM Act, a nice step toward immigration reform on a federal level. - - Donna Poisl

BY MAEGAN LA MAMITA MALA ·

On Monday, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s state panel on immigrant policy revealed a decidedly progressive set of recommendations.

For example, Corzine supports undocumented students being able to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges much like the DREAM Act.

Corzine said most of New Jersey’s immigrants are in the state legally, and that the children of the state’s estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants; “are not here because they chose to be, but because of their families, and they should not be discriminated against.”
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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