Recommended: I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard

The Daily Beast has an poignant article entitled I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard. Whether it is a true story or not, it makes a strong case for passing the Dream act, to allow motivated, educated illegal immigrants who are good citizens, pay their taxes, and obey the laws to become American citizens.  Despite all the Republican rhetoric about keeping immigrants out, this country has always benefited from the steady inflow of good minds and highly motivated workers who come here, either for better opportunity or to escape repression elsewhere (remember, we won World War II in part because some of the best German minds - especially the Jewish physicists - came here to escape the Nazis.).