The immigration reform proposal presented yesterday by Senators Schumer, Menendez, and Reid should be seen as an insult to the hard work that activists and advocates have been engaged in. Calling for a militarized border before millions are granted their basic human rights is not justice and it sure as hell ain’t change. If this is the proposal meant to bring Republicans to the table, how much worse will it get?

In the absence of a REAL immigration reform bill, students have been marching, walking across the country, risking deportation and coming out of the often referred to shadows to demand that they be able to stay in this country.

The Center for American Progress (whom I am mad at for their support of the Dem. immigration proposal), has a great podcast in Spanish with the DREAM walkers.

The DREAM act is far from a perfect solution. It includes a military option that I am firmly against but it doesn’t include a biometric id or drones along the border. And we must respect the desires and demands of students across the country who are continually faced with detention and deportation.

Sign and support the DREAM Act so that students and young people can stop fighting deportations one by one and can keep on fighting.