Atlanta DREAMers Arrested

I posted an announcement about the seven DREAMers in Atlanta yesterday. These courageous young folks were arrested:

From CNN:

Seven students were arrested Tuesday after staging a sit-in at an Atlanta intersection, blocking traffic in a symbolic effort to raise awareness about a controversial immigration issue.

Georgina Perez, Viridiana Martinez, Jose Rico, Dayanna Rebolledo, Andrea Rosales, David Ramirez and Maria Marroquin were arrested near Georgia State University.

“We want to show the people that we are undocumented and we’re not afraid,” Marroquin said.

All are undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as young children, they said, and were protesting the lack of support for the Dream Act in Congress.

The bill — which was defeated in December 2010 — would have given children who have grown up in the United States an opportunity to earn citizenship despite their family’s immigration status.

Georgia’s public colleges have adopted policies that officials say will prevent illegal immigrants from attending five high-demand schools and from being admitted ahead of legally and academically qualified residents at the rest of the state’s public institutions of higher learning.

“That’s why I’m here today, because I’m fighting for education for everybody,” Perez said. “It should not matter whether you have a nine-digit Social Security number. We’re all human beings!” Read more…

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