Dec 20, 2010
After the U.S. Senate killed the DREAM Act on Saturday, its young supporters vowed to continue the fight.
"It's a heartbreaking loss, but we're going to keep fighting for it," said Him Ranjit, a University of Texas at Austin student who was in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to support the...
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Dec 19, 2010
When the Senate took two of its most highly anticipated votes of the lame-duck session on Saturday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was nowhere to be found.
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Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of legislation.
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A Senate vote not to legalize illegal students set back an emerging movement and rebuffed the president's policy... Part of the administration's strategy has been to ramp up border and workplace enforcement to attract Republican votes for the overhaul. The vote on Saturday made it clear that strategy has...
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Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
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Dec 18, 2010
There's bad news in the offing for America's political immigrant bashers, beyond even the fact that the most egregious among those who sought to make hay by blasting newcomers in last fall's elections all lost.
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The Senate blocked on Saturday a vote on the DREAM Act which would have provided children of illegal immigrants a conditional pathway to apply for citizenship.
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Rev. Mark Gonzales, "This is more than a political issue. This is more than a partisan issue...This is something we believe is in the best interests of our country and our next generation of leaders."
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If the focus is on the young people themselves, the case for the Dream Act is impenetrable. They have been brought up in this country...the evidence is unequivocal: those with two years of college or military training pay their own way in life.
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Speaking on the Senate floor in 2007 about a virtually identical bill, she said: "This is such an important piece of legislation, and I do think this is isolated from the entire immigration issue because there . . . are young people who have been brought to this country...
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