A series of economic estimates and revenue projections, most notably from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), show that the DREAM Act will strengthen the U.S. economy. As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on DREAM next week, the new projections demonstrate why DREAM's passage should be...
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A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of the DREAM Act shows that the legislation would increase revenues by $2.3 billion in the 2011-2020 period. After accounting for spending, "CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the bill would reduce deficits by about $1.4 billion over the 2011-2020 period,"...
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Senate Republicans have announced that they will block consideration of any legislation until votes are held on tax cuts and legislation to fund the government. The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, in response:
"The news that Senate Republicans are banding together...
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Nov 30, 2010
Today, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said that the Democrats are playing politics with the immigration issue, "promising things that they're never going to deliver, knowing they're not going to deliver"—apparently referencing the upcoming DREAM Act debate in Congress.
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With both chambers of Congress planning to take up the DREAM Act this year, students who would benefit from the legislation joined today with labor and immigration reform advocates to announce the details of a six-figure ad buy in Spanish and English media targeting Senators whose votes could be...
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Nov 29, 2010
As the DREAM Act moves toward a vote during the lame duck session of Congress, Republicans are busy dusting off their excuses for intransigence, inaction, and opposition to DREAM. But the story of a young future pastor out of Ohio illustrates the compelling need for the DREAM Act,...
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An escalating number of conservative voices speaking out for the DREAM Act underscores the legislation's bipartisan pedigree <> and its importance for future U.S. competitiveness. Through key editorials in conservative outlets and new Republicans and conservatives calling for its passage, the louder drumbeat signals that momentum...
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Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), whose extremist ties and past attacks on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have stamped him as a leading anti-Latino lawmaker, is adding to his anti-immigrant legacy by couching his opposition to the DREAM Act with fear-mongering about immigrants and crime and falsehoods about the DREAM...
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There are thousands of patriotic youth who graduate from high school each year with dreams of serving the only country they know, but are ineligible to enlist in the U.S. armed forces because they lack legal immigration status. The DREAM Act is a bipartisan bill that would enable...
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In a town where political hypocrisy is in no short supply, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) manages to take things to another level. In his latest instance of "getting to no" on immigration, Cornyn opposes taking up the DREAM Act because, he says, Americans want Congress to focus on border...
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