Oh, Anonymous Coward, your bovine ignorance irritates me. Can't you get through one post without lying your fool face off? Facts are just a click away, FFS; no one is asking you to do differential equations or even to spell, "C-A-T."
DREAM Act: Requirements
-- Not have entered the United States on a non-immigrant visa
-- Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16
-- Have proof of residence in the United States for at least five consecutive years since their date of arrival
-- If male, have registered with the Selective Service [Note to Anonymous Coward: Are you signed up?]
-- Be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of bill enactment
-- Have graduated from an American high school, obtained a GED, or been admitted to an institution of higher education
-- Be of good moral character [I can see why this would piss the OP off; lying his ass off does not bespeak good moral character.]
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The Affordable Care Act does not cover illegal immigrants, but rather it covers Green Card holders and citizens of the United States.
On a related note, why - and how - would illegal immigrants (y'know, undocumented persons) sign up for a government program? That would be a swift path to deportation.
And finally we reach free phones. The government has been giving SSI recipients discounted phone service for about ten years. The "free phone" program is funded, you idiot, by private industry.
Anonymous Coward obviously doesn't know much about...well, anything, really, but especially not about criminal or drug cultures. (He would claim his ignorance in this is an asset, and he'd be wrong yet again. If he's going to post opinions in an attempt to influence others, he should have a basic grasp of the facts.)
Beyond that, drug dealers will use pay-as-you-go phones, but most would be too smart/paranoid to accept a phone as a freebie from either government or industry. That would defeat the rationale behind having anonymous phones to begin with. I use only pay-as-you-go - and no, not for illegal activities - but cell contracts, traps though they are, are much cheaper. In exchange for a year or two of bondage to the cell company, one can get deep discounts on good phones (which are nonetheless locked to a specific service provider). Locked phones are bullshit, so I won't pay for them. I'd rather pay the extra $20 a month for PayGo service.
Homeless job-seekers who cannot afford PayGo, nor to miss a potential job call, have benefitted from local phone plans for years. This isn't new, nor is it insidious.
