The Senate will likely remain in session through the weekend to wrap up unfinished business, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday...Reid said that he also would like to vote on immigration legislation called the DREAM Act.
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A multifaith group of religious leaders, including Dallas pastor Owen Ross, gathered in prayer at the Capitol on Tuesday to urge the Senate to pass the DREAM Act.
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With the Senate poised to vote on the DREAM Act before the close of this lame duck session, dozens of prominent clergy – including bishops, national leaders and clergy from numerous key states–converged on the nation's Capitol today to press Senators to vote in favor of the DREAM Act....
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Yesterday evening DREAM Act supporters, including young immigrants and allies from across the country, gathered at the symbolic Lincoln Memorial -- the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech -- to sing holiday carols. Marchers carried candles and an image of the Virgin Mary - December...
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Are we really that sort of country? Are we really a nation so narrow-minded and nativist that we would deny citizenship to bright and talented young adults with the brains to become surgeons, engineers or astronauts? Are we so grimly determined to punish illegal border-crossings that we would deport...
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Do Republicans really want to tell young people who've lived here most of their lives, who may speak no other language but English and who are even willing to sacrifice themselves on the battlefield: "We don't want you?"
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Are there any college presidents — maybe from more conservative universities — who have come out against the legislation? After spending a good amount of time Googling around, I couldn't find even one..."If it wasn't a good idea, universities and their presidents wouldn't be unanimously in support of it."
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The more Republicans lash out at immigrants...and blame them for everything from unemployment to crowded jails and lousy car washes, the more they turn off what some in politics now call "the new Americans."
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If morality does not move the Senate, then sheer economic self-interest should. The more our talented students are forced into the dark in fear of being deported, the greater the loss in potential tax revenue. In some of them we might just have the next Einstein, the next Bill...
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Sen. John Cornyn expresses sympathy for students who would be affected by the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, and yet he doesn't think he can help them just yet... wrote..."the time is always ripe to do what's right."
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