Celebration In Jail Over President Obama's DREAM Order Today

A young student at our local college is ecstatic over President Obama's announcement that undocumented students won't be deported. She has a boyfriend and a brother currently locked-up in our Jessup, Md. detention center with the threat of deportation hanging over their heads. Their parents and many of their friends and relatives have been afraid to even visit them because of their fear of being confronted and arrested. They've moved them from jail to jail and it's been a harrowing and complicated situation.

The young lady called them in jail today and was told that there's a celebration of sorts going on in jail where there are apparently quite a number of young folk locked-up there, like her boyfriend and brother, who were arrested on immigration violations placed there by the INS. Her boyfriend thinks he meets most of the criteria for release . . .

They now think that all that has to be done is to enroll them in school or a GED program to get them out of jeopardy. I don't know enough about the particulars behind the announcement today to say for sure whether they have a chance at being released, but there's sure a lot of excitement and high hope riding on President Obama's announcement today.

We'll have to see what happens, but I can imagine there are many, many folks out of the 800,000 or so young men and women in the nation who are just overjoyed at this news.