Senate Dream education bill death well-deserved

Senate Dream education bill death well- deserved
"Dream" death well deserved Cynthia Tucker's Column (Editoial page Editor Atlanta Journal Constitution)"Young immigrants' dreams die in Senate" was long on idealistic rhetoric and short on understanding that Americans are not willing to do virtually anything to reward illegal immigrants, or their children.
Illegal means illegal, and wishing for a back door to give status is not fair and will not be accepted by Americans. That's why the Senate voted against it. That's why this and many other proposals looking to get "a nose under the tent' for illegals just won't stand.
You can offer many justified comments about the American body politic that highlight apathy, unfocused values, even laziness, but on this issue Americans see the basic unfairness of allowing illegals a reward which they feel millions of other legal immigrants have earned by following the rules.
And, since when are we willing to paint a character portrait of illegals that makes them better than legal Americans of the same stature and standing? Finding examples of outstanding students who are illegals is just as easy as finding examples of U.S. citizens who are legal, and who deserve the opportunity to be credibly educated, maybe using funds that Ms. Tucker would use otherwise.
Did Ms. Tucker calculate the cost of educating the illegal Mr. Marcos through high school? (About $$85,000) What would those funds have paid for helping legal citizens?
The educational cost of all illegal immigrant children K-12 runs about 60 Billion dollars a year- that's Billions with a big "B" folks! That's a lot of educational improvement for U.S. citizens!
Like $20,000 a year college tuition for each of 3,000,000 legal citizens. Or 2,000,000 college tuitions, AND after school programs for 4,000,000 K-6 poor children.
And, lastly, character assassination ("craven White House, elected leaders quake and cower,") of those who want social and educational benefits reserved for citizens and legal immigrants is unworthy of Ms. Tucker and her sponsors and more, deserve condemnation and a retraction by Ms. Tucker. Those who disagree with Ms. Tucker are still operating under the assumption that America's greatest freedom, that of Free Speech, is still intact.
Or, would Ms. Tucker change that little law also?