WOW: Illegal Immigrants Now Have A Phone App, Where They Can Easily Do THIS. It’s Time To Wake Up
(too bad American citizens' children do not have free college or help finding such - gov't would rather student loan them into an early debt cycle)
Adding fuel to the fire...
Colleen Conley April 5, 2016 at 2:44pm
The controversial topic of illegal immigration has been a hot-button issue in the 2016 Republican presidential race, and a new smartphone app that illegal aliens can soon access is likely to add fuel to the fire.
While the American middle class struggles to send its own children to college, illegals who have benefited from the largesse of taxpayers now have another boondoggle available — literally at their fingertips. Called the DREAMERer’s RoadMap, the app features scholarships specifically for undocumented immigrants. It was developed by Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca, an illegal immigrant who was brought to the United States when she was 4 years old.
As a senior in high school, Salamanca ran into a roadblock in furthering her education. She could not legally work to pay for college — even those offering in-state tuition for illegals — and guidance counselors did not know where to refer her to obtain scholarships. So she set about finding them on the Internet on her own.
Salamanca obtained an associate’s degree from Canada College in Redwood City, California, then won a competition sponsored by the Voto Latino Innovators Challenge, which awarded her $100,000 as start-up funds for her idea to launch an app that students can access for free directly from their smartphones. DREAMer’s Roadmap — which will officially launch this month — currently has about 500 scholarships in its database.
According to KQED News, users of DREAMer’s Roadmap can filter the database to narrow down the scholarships they qualify for. When they find a scholarship they like, users can share, comment or save the listing. If users know of a scholarship that is not listed, they can submit it, and DREAMer’s Roadmap will verify that it is legitimate before it goes live on the app.
To market her idea, the Palo Alto, California, resident has partnered with schools, including Sequoia High School Dreamer’s Club in Redwood City and UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program.
Salamanca now has her green card and plans to attend a four-year university this year. No slouch in the millennial marketing department, she’s already she was one of Forbes 30 Under 30: Education in 2016, was named a Champions of Change recipient by President Obama’s administration in 2014 and participated in the DREAMer Hackathon hosted by Mark Zuckerberg in 2013.
While the new app may assist illegal immigrants in obtaining a college degree, what immigration laws have withstood the Obama administration’s relentless assaults over the past years are still standing in the way of their American dream. As illegal immigrants, even college graduates cannot legally work in the United States without a green card or work permit.
The Obama administration has been doing its best to change that, however, via an executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) that would allow for up to 5 million illegals to stay in the United States. Courts in Texas and New Orleans have called for a temporary injunction against the program which has been challenged by 26 states.
Maybe someone in the Obama White House is working on an app for that.
http://www.tpnn.com/2016/04/05/wow-i...ily-time-wake/
