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Fight for rights for undocumented immigrants!Maryland has been divided about every major issue since 1636. The first African American legislator in North America, Mathias de Souza, was a delegate to the Maryland Assembly. But then, the man who helped him up the ladder, Fr. Andrew White, was sent back to England in chains. The colony of Maryland was the pioneer of religious freedom, followed by Pennsylvania. But when anti-Catholic ferment swept the country in the 1850s, and the bigot Millard Fillmore ran for President as the candidate of the Know-Nothings, the only state Fillmore carried was Maryland. In 2011, Maryland passed its own Dream Act, offering some help to undocumented immigrants. The law was promptly appealed to referendum, and the state was divided. This short book grew out of that moment in Maryland's history.John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, an activist who had written extensively about eugenics, and a supporter of immigrants' rights, challenged a leader of the opposition, Neil C. Parrott, to a debate on-line. Parrott declined, but O'Keefe pressed on, and made 20 arguments for Maryland's Dream Act. For nearly every reader, these original arguments will be refreshingly new.These arguments for the Dream Act are fresh and clear and forceful. The proposed rules for the proposed debate required brevity, no more than 500 words per day. So: fresh, clear, forceful - and brief!