It is particularly unfair for a specific group within this class that I would like to talk about. and that is those who have come here as relatively young people and are now enrolled in an educational program. The largest community college in the country is Miami Dade Community College located in Miami. That one institution has some 20.000 legal immigrants within its student body. and 8.000 of those individuals are estimated to be ruled ineligible for student financial aid if an amendment such as the one that I have offered were not to be adopted. Here are people trying to do exactly what the American dream is all about. to improve themselves by hard work. by education. by increasing their ability to contribute to the wellbeing of themselves. their families. their communities. and their Nation. With the failure to adopt this amendment. we would make it extremely difficult for many of these students to continue their education.
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