Posted on 09/26/2007 1:05:02 PM PDT by yorkie
WASHINGTON — The hope for immediate Senate action on the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants, faded Tuesday as the measure's chief Senate sponsor acknowledged he was having difficulty surmounting Republican opposition.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has been seeking to attach the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill pending in the Senate. But in an interview Tuesday, he said the DREAM Act isn't among the items on the table as Republican and Democratic leaders discuss ways to quickly wrap up debate on the defense bill.
"We haven't given up completely, but the options on this bill are limited,'' Durbin said.
"I'm disappointed for thousands of young people whose lives are just in limbo," he added. "They want to move on with their lives and do good things, and unfortunately we haven't been able to pass the laws to make that happen."
Immigrant-rights advocates were dismayed by the setback but vowed to find other means to pass the legislation, which they have sought since 2001.
"There is no question that this issue doesn't stop here," said Cecilia Muñoz, senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza. "The longer we wait, the more talented young people we close the door of opportunity to."
The DREAM Act would allow illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. before the age of 16, and have lived here at least five years, to receive conditional legal status if they have graduated from high school and have a clean record. After six years, they could become permanent legal residents if they serve in the U.S. military for at least two years or complete at least two years of college. As with most green card holders, they could apply for citizenship after five years.
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why can’t these people just use their real identity and get authentic paperwork like everyone else - why do they demand to go to the head of the line with stolen documents and get the fruits of being a good citizen...
“”They want to move on with their lives and do good things, and unfortunately we haven’t been able to pass the laws to make that happen.””
They can move on with their lives...right back to Mexico.
Get in line like everyone else.
Yep. It stretches through the Senate, weaves through the House and right into the White House!
Aww, look... he's crying.
“why can’t these people just use their real identity and get authentic paperwork like everyone else - why do they demand to go to the head of the line with stolen documents and get the fruits of being a good citizen...”
We (Bush) enabled them........
You mean you have some sort of problem with the concept of amnesty to reward people for coming here illegally while a child (or just claiming to have done so), dodging deportation for 5 years (or at least claiming they have), and then becoming the anchor child their parents always dreamed of so more bleeding heart liberals can scream about the tragedy of broken immigrant families if the parents were to be deported ?
Why on earth would anyone have a problem with that ? Only a bunch extreme right-wing, racist, MEANIES would object to such a grand solution to the plight of those poor immigrants !
vaudine
Never let up people! We must continue to incessantly remind the elitists in the Senate of how we feel. 2 months from now they will “forget” our opposition and try a different back door approach.
Eternal vigilance is essential. They will never give up trying to legalize these people. We need to be even more proactive.
Oh, was this last one Shamnesty IV? I”m off my one. It’s hard to keep count any more....
But the bastards will try again and again and again.
We need to keep pushing them back with our flamethrowers each time and force them into their decrepit legislative caves.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
BUMP
Yep, that's exactly what our own "conservative" president thinks of us. Sad, huh?
Here's the explanation - our political class including the President and virtually the entire leadership crew of the Republican party, national and state, is dominated by globalists. These people have no allegiance to anything American; not party, not the American people, not our constitutional republic, nothing. They see themselves as citizens of the world. Their allegiances are to global money, global interests, and global institutions.
The new divide in American politics is not between the left and the right, the liberals and the conservatives, but between the globalists and the Americans. If the Republican party doesn't change course soon and become an American party, they will go the way of the Whigs.
The American middle class, now rapidly becoming aware of the situation and having taken, and continuing to take, body blow after body blow, will not long tolerate a political system dominated by two foreign, globalist, parties.
This dumb statement by The Race makes one of two assumptions:
We haven’t given up completely, but the options on this bill are limited,’’ Durbin said.
Durbin will say anything to get the calls and faxes to stop.
‘Ain’t gonna happen...we MUST prevent this from being attached to the Defense Bill...and then we MUST prevent it from being attached to the AgJobs bill...and so on. As long as they are relentless, we must be more so.
It would have been more aptly named the Nightmare Act. But it ain’t dead yet. Not while one socialist ‘Rat looking for a large group of uneducated, uninformed to pander to remains in Congress.
not fadded enough.
this thing must be dead buried and surrounded by wooden stakes and garlic. so to speak.
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The correct, original Spanish title of “La Raza” translates literally as “The National Party of the United Race.” This is a bigoted organization whose purpose is to create a little Mexico in the American Southwest. Whatever they say to the contrary is deliberately dishonest. See my prior article on this.”
They want to create a little Mexico everywhere! Not just the Southwest
You forgot Feinswein. She’s been right in the thick of it.
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