When House Democrats last week passed the DREAM Act before the Senate had staged its vote, the timing was no accident. Instead, the chronology was part of a carefully designed strategy — orchestrated, with some tension, between the two chambers — to grant the proposal its greatest shot at...
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Dec 12, 2010
Senate Republicans can obfuscate, but arguments about costs and laws are so flimsy when it comes to the House-approved Dream Act that if they block it this week, as seems likely, they will be joining with those nativists and haters who regularly tell me and other Latinos to leave...
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A national Hispanic Republican organization denounced Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's opposition to the DREAM Act on Friday and warned that the stance may hurt her re-election prospects in 2012 should she decide to run.
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We're back with more reaction from Wednesday night following the House vote victory on the DREAM Act. Watch DREAM leader Lizbeth and immigration reform champion Rep. Luis Gutierrez.
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In the real world, rejecting the Dream Act is a betrayal of the future. It is unjust to innocent children. It robs the nation of the talents of eager, young people. It perpetuates the folly that all those who are in the U.S. illegally can be deported or made...
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Senate Democrats voted to pull their bill, allowing them to take up a version identical to the House bill..."The DREAM Act is not a symbolic vote," Reid and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a statement.
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After watching the House of Representatives pass the DREAM Act yesterday, youth leaders gathered with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to thank their colleagues and Representatives for voting their conscience.
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Six years ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a rare type of bill that blocked the U.S. government from punishing an South Carolina high school girl for a crime her mother had committed long ago by smuggling her across the Mexico border.
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It was just another suburban fender-bender...But for Felipa Leonor Valencia, the Mexican woman who was driving the Jeep that was hit that day in March, the damage went far beyond a battered bumper. The crash led Ms. Valencia to 12 days in detention and the start of deportation proceedings...
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A cluster of undocumented students cheered South Florida lawmakers, such as Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, when they rose in Congress on Wednesday night to speak in favor of the DREAM Act and loudly booed when opponents spoke against the bill.
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