Friday, September 24, 2010

Senate Republicans hold up Dream Act for children of immigrants

It looks like the DREAM Act will not become law this year. We need these kids to become citizens, we educated them for years, we need them here. - - Donna Poisl

By Shankar Vedantam

Republican lawmakers on Tuesday stalled a Senate measure to allow children of undocumented immigrants to get on a path to citizenship, and accused the Obama administration of seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants through administrative changes within the Department of Homeland Security.

The Dream Act, which would grant permanent residency to immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and who have completed some time in college or in the armed forces has been a sought-after goal for Democrats, who attached the measure to an important defense spending bill.
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