Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may feel he has an edge now for the GOP Presidential nomination, but his fatal error a week ago condemning the proposed DREAM Act for young immigrant children will be a key factor harming his candidacy, and causing his defeat in November!
The DREAM Act allows the children of illegal immigrants, who are here through no action or fault of their own, to become American citizens over time by volunteering for the US military or going to college, in both cases wishing to be contributors to the only country they remember, and having a future, rather than a “no man’s land”, which denies them opportunity to get ahead in life in America.
Romney’s clear cut refusal to consider this as reasonable and just, done because of the need to appease conservatives, will come back to bite him in the fall, and will work against his past record of moderation, which he is working so hard to eradicate.
For a future potential President to take such a shortsighted view of a population, whose legal numbers are in the tens of millions and want a “fair shake” for those who have done no personal wrong and have not broken the law on their own, is enough to disqualify him.
Should one visit the sins of the parents on the children and ruin their futures? The answer is clearly NO, and Mitt Romney, if he wins the Republican nomination, will regret the day he decided to “burn his bridges” with the rapidly multiplying Hispanic and Latino population that will determine who the next President of the United States will be!