Senate Democrats Bring Back The DREAM Act To Life For 2011
The DREAM Act is the back. Five months after a bitter defeat in the Senate last December, the law on illegal immigration immigrant youth narrow benefit was reintroduced in the Senate.
"Not only high school diploma, have become valedictorians, star athletes, students roll of honor, the leader in ROTC," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said today, millions of undocumented young people who were raised in the country, but has no legal status to work and serve the country.
"It may be future doctors, soldiers, journalists, and even U.S. senators. They are making America a better place. These students hope and pray that the U.S. Senate to find the courage to go where the law DREAM, we still ".
This is a version of a speech repeatedly Durbin. The DREAM Act has been around since 2001, Durbin was one of the sponsors of the original bill, which would allow undocumented youth to clear many hurdles to be eligible for citizenship if they commit two years college or the military has been reintroduced in the Senate. A similar project is planned to be reintroduced today in the House by Representatives Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
In the latest versions of the law, young immigrants should have entered the country before the age of 16 years, but still under the age of 30 years at the time of project approval. That must have lived in the United States for at least five years and undergo background checks. Those with an offense or offenses more than two would not qualify. Although there are about two million undocumented youth in the country at this time, the White House estimated last year that 65 000 have benefited from the bill.
In recent days the last Congress, the House of Representatives passed the DREAM Act, in a historic vote. It was the first time that the bill had cleared both houses of Congress. And even when she won a majority in both parties, with 55 votes in the Senate, who could not clear the obstruction was a Republican. In the process, Senate Democrats have blamed Republicans for killing the law, but five Democrats also supported the obstruction.
"I will never forget the faces of young people, after the vote," said Durbin, recalls times when he welcomed the DREAM Act supporters after the vote on Saturday morning. "They were devastated, crying a lot, ready to give up. But I said, I will not abandon you, so do not give up on us. "
Although Durbin Dream Act and unconditional majority leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, to pay the bill, some Republicans are not. The bill re-introduced with 32 sponsors, but the Republican Dick Lugar, DREAM Act giving long, is absent on this occasion.
"I think there are people of good will the Republican side of the aisle, including some that previously have been supporters of the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration policy reform, and it is with us," Reid said, always optimistic about the ability of his colleagues around to find Bill. "This is not a competition between people who are Democrats and Republicans, even though it has played in recent times, because the Republicans did not just want to take a step forward and assist."
Last month, Reid and 21 other senators signed a letter to President Obama urged to grant deferred action immigrants without papers, the young, who would be entitled to the DREAM Act last year. Obama has rejected such an option, and continue to expel potential dreamers.
"I am a person who maintains a faith, just like The Dreamers is a belief that things will change."
The DREAM Act is the back. Five months after a bitter defeat in the Senate last December, the law on illegal immigration immigrant youth narrow benefit was reintroduced in the Senate.
"Not only high school diploma, have become valedictorians, star athletes, students roll of honor, the leader in ROTC," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said today, millions of undocumented young people who were raised in the country, but has no legal status to work and serve the country.
"It may be future doctors, soldiers, journalists, and even U.S. senators. They are making America a better place. These students hope and pray that the U.S. Senate to find the courage to go where the law DREAM, we still ".
This is a version of a speech repeatedly Durbin. The DREAM Act has been around since 2001, Durbin was one of the sponsors of the original bill, which would allow undocumented youth to clear many hurdles to be eligible for citizenship if they commit two years college or the military has been reintroduced in the Senate. A similar project is planned to be reintroduced today in the House by Representatives Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
In the latest versions of the law, young immigrants should have entered the country before the age of 16 years, but still under the age of 30 years at the time of project approval. That must have lived in the United States for at least five years and undergo background checks. Those with an offense or offenses more than two would not qualify. Although there are about two million undocumented youth in the country at this time, the White House estimated last year that 65 000 have benefited from the bill.
In recent days the last Congress, the House of Representatives passed the DREAM Act, in a historic vote. It was the first time that the bill had cleared both houses of Congress. And even when she won a majority in both parties, with 55 votes in the Senate, who could not clear the obstruction was a Republican. In the process, Senate Democrats have blamed Republicans for killing the law, but five Democrats also supported the obstruction.
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"I will never forget the faces of young people, after the vote," said Durbin, recalls times when he welcomed the DREAM Act supporters after the vote on Saturday morning. "They were devastated, crying a lot, ready to give up. But I said, I will not abandon you, so do not give up on us. "
Although Durbin Dream Act and unconditional majority leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, to pay the bill, some Republicans are not. The bill re-introduced with 32 sponsors, but the Republican Dick Lugar, DREAM Act giving long, is absent on this occasion.
"I think there are people of good will the Republican side of the aisle, including some that previously have been supporters of the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration policy reform, and it is with us," Reid said, always optimistic about the ability of his colleagues around to find Bill. "This is not a competition between people who are Democrats and Republicans, even though it has played in recent times, because the Republicans did not just want to take a step forward and assist."
Last month, Reid and 21 other senators signed a letter to President Obama urged to grant deferred action immigrants without papers, the young, who would be entitled to the DREAM Act last year. Obama has rejected such an option, and continue to expel potential dreamers.
"I am a person who maintains a faith, just like The Dreamers is a belief that things will change."
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