doris meissner, dream act, unauthorized versus illegal.guest: dream act is a name that congress gave to a piece of legislation. that is what the sponsors have called it and that is why it is referred to in that way. as for the broader question , iut level playing field think the caller has a very important point. as long as we have an economy where it is possible for and pays to hire people them at the bottom of the wage scale, there will be unfair competition. that is a symptom of a brokenness in our symptom that can only be addressed i immigration laws that are more -- by immigration laws that are more suited with today's economy and congress has been stuck on passing anything that deals with those problems. illegal,uthorized, undocumented. guest: the term unauthorized is the official term for the census. they tend to get used interchangeably. come to theave country illegally have definitely broken the law. they are in an illegal status. the phenomenon is one of an unauthorized population. the language does bother some people, but those