Money, Money, Money

Financial aid has proven to be a tough road bump for many Dreamers. However, it will now seem even more dim for these students as Obama's new budget plan for 2011 cuts about 4.9 Billion dollars from the Department of Education. If finding money for college seemed hard enough already, then be prepared for a tougher road. Of course, the possibilities of getting scholarships are still avialable, but it's definitely a lot more tougher now that many US citizens will also have a tougher time getting money since federal aid will now decrease.

The good news is that Senator Dick Durbin announced that he will reintroduce the DREAM Act, although this new version of the bill is expected to narrow down the number of eligible students. All I can say is that undocumented students must now keep trying harder to stand out and give Congress and the rest of America a reason to pass this bill. Hopefully they will soon realize the importance of an education.

Facebook Update

Finally, Facebook will be available to all students during the school week, so I can actually take on the task of building a facebook page on the DREAM Act. I had already found a DREAM Act Houston page, however the page did not have accurate e-mail adresses and information, so I could not really contact the admin of that page. I decided to make my own page then, realizing that I could easily get about 200 members from school and friends, and then hopefully the group would reach others through them. Hooray for networking!

So first of all I decided to link both my blog and my webs to the page for easy access and media circulation. I'm going to try and keep this page updated as much as possible. Hpefully once I get a reasonable amount of members I can do a sort of group rally or something of that magnitude.

Going online

Recently I've been thinking about making a facebook page and calling it "DREAM Act Houston". I'm not sure if someone has already made a group similar to that, but I wouldn't mind collaborating with this person. I think it would probably be one of the fastest ways of getting my message out there since almost everyone uses Facebook today. I would probably be posting up links and any articles I found on the web. What I really look forward too is getting a certain meeting or event once I get a big enough group and do some rallying. Let me know what you all think.