Greg:

Are there exceptions to the age requirements on DREAM. It states that you must be either under 16 years old and under 30.

Actually reading about the DREAM act reminds me of a horrific story my wife told me about. One of her follow students in nursing school was adopted when she was only a few months old from her home country (Korea I believe). She was brought to the U.S. as an infant and raised as an American. Her parents failed to do the proper paperwork and she was never naturalized as a citizen.

At some point when she was applying for her nursing license or something, it was discovered that she was not an American citizen and was technically in the country illegally. The authorities actually threatened to deport her to her home country even though she doesn't know the language or know who her family is there. Can you imagine sending a young woman into a situation like this and the dangers she would face? Luckily, she found an attorney that was able to help her and she was able to become naturalized, although at great emotional and financial cost.

It seems like the DREAM act could have been a help to her to avoid this frightening experience.

hell imagine a kid who got to this country at the age of 3 and loved being in america, all his friends are here his parents brothers, sisters, and cousins, life is great isn't it. Now i want you to imagine that same kid growing up, hes now 18 and is looking forward to going to college to start off his career and move on with his life, but when that kid wants to take that next step he can't because of selfish senators who think there actually securing america and keeping there children safe, but in fact there killing the country and for a government who hasn't done anything in 8 years but hurt the economy. Oh ya who every voted for GWB was a completed idiot you voted for a man who ran every business he owned to the growned, what the hell do you think was going to happen to the country idiots. Oh and way to go with 9/11 how the hell could they let that happen, i know i dont have to tell it was a disaster and hurt every america deeply, but this could of been avoided if our grand congress, senators,pres and vice president weren't so busy sitting on there asses. If this dream act does not come out, well of course immigrants are screwed but America will suffer more than it is right now, come on people you see it every single day, when you go to work you see for hire signs everywhere and you see more homeless people every day hell there are more poor people out there than there are beds. Economy has gone to hell people are selling there houses,cars,cloths anything just to pay the bills. If they dont pass the dream act America will be saying to the millions of kids out there that your life will end and you are not welcome in my country get out. the funny thing is, is that this country was built on immigrants, Americans were looked upon as great people once, hell you would go to a foreign country and if they found out you were an american you wre looked upon as a person with intellingence and diginity, now your scum and selfish. Oh ya one more thing how the hell can these senators make decisions on how to run the country when the majority of them were born with a silver spoon in there mouths, how can you make decisions on how to run this country when you've never even been so poor that you would have to work for a lowsy 6 bucks an hour, how the hell could these so called leaders of America make decisions on how to run and protect the people of America if they've have never gone to extremes to just survive in this world on your own. It's funny how these leaders of America can toy around with childrens lifes for years to come and having senators wait till they come to some kind of an agreement so CHILDREN can have a life so they can have a future, so they can have a family