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Democrats to
reintroduce DREAM Act
By Scott Wong
5/10/11
Senate Democrats will re-introduce the long-stalled DREAM Act, hoping
to tap into momentum from President Barack Obama’s speech along the
border Tuesday about America’s need to pass comprehensive immigration
reform.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and other Democrats will urge
passage of the DREAM Act at a news conference Wednesday morning at the
Capitol.
Foundering in Congress for a decade, the legislation was passed in the
House but came up five votes short of overcoming a Republican
filibuster in the Senate during last December’s lame-duck session. The
DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegal
immigrants brought to the country as children if they attend college or
join the military for two years.
At a speech in El Paso, Texas, Obama called on Congress to pass the
bill and “stop punishing innocent young people for the actions of their
parents.”
“It was a tremendous disappointment to get so close and then see
politics get in the way,” Obama said. “These are kids who grew up in
this country, love this country, and know no other place as home. The
idea that we would punish them is cruel and it makes no sense. We are a
better nation than that.
“So we’re going to keep up the fight for the Dream Act. We’re going to
keep up the fight for reform.”
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