Thread: GOP Gearing Up For Fight Over DREAM Act

GOP Gearing Up For Fight Over DREAM Act

November 29, 2010

by Geoff Holtzman

With Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate set to hold votes on the DREAM Act this week, Republicans are making their case against the controversial bill.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) an ardent opponent of illegal immigration, said Monday that the legislation equates to amnesty for as many as two million people living in the U.S. illegally. Last week, the senior Republican put out a list of ten reasons why lawmakers should vote against the bill, which gives immigrants who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 a conditional opportunity to earn citizenship.

However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told aides that he will file cloture on the legislation perhaps as early as Tuesday in an attempt to get it passed during the lame-duck session. If Reid can muster the 60 votes needed to begin debate on the bill, he will move one step closer to fulfilling a major promise he made to Latino voters during his 2010 campaign.

Similarly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed to bring companion legislation to the floor this week. The DREAM Act could be the last significant vote Pelosi presides over before she hands the Speaker’s gavel to John Boehner (R-Ohio) in January.

While Sessions and other conservative groups continued their media onslaught against DREAM on Monday, Democrats were feeling emboldened thanks to an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that advised Republicans to support the bill.

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Similarly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed to bring companion legislation to the floor this week. The DREAM Act could be the last significant vote Pelosi presides over before she hands the Speaker’s gavel to John Boehner (R-Ohio) in January.

Even if it takes massive illegal lobbying to accomplish it.

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Go head RINO's ... PEAK OUT OF THE CLOSET ..... just wish I was close enough to slam that damn door

SHOW YOUR FACE... If you didn't learn anything on the last election you will on the next 2

We are cleaning fricken house and you crack heads are next in line for the peoples juggernaut

I cant say this enough .. just peak out the F'n door and act like you want to vote for this bill ..

Former GOP Governor, Regent University President, Other Conservatives Highlight Need for DREAM Act
Congress Has Plenty of Time to Act on DREAM, Other Issues

WASHINGTON - November 29 - 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 is building on behalf of DREAM.

According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, "Voters are eager to see politicians in Washington work together to pass exactly this type of practical legislation. This bill is traditionally bipartisan in nature, broadly popular with all Americans, and a common sense measure to begin to fix our broken immigration system. This is a well-known issue to members of Congress and could pass in minutes if given the chance -- leaving plenty of time for other issues to be debated and enacted."

Among the key developments on behalf of DREAM:

· Former Illinois Republican Governor Jim Edgar voiced his support for DREAM in an op-ed in Sunday's Chicago Tribune, writing that "A rational approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with the young people who were brought here as babies, toddlers and adolescents...A nation as kind as ours should not turn its back on them. Congress needs to support the sensible, humane approach embodied in legislation known as the Dream Act. The measure charts a rigorous path that undocumented youths must negotiate to gain legal status and qualify for citizenship, and supporting it would be both good government and good politics."

· The DREAM Act would be a boon to future U.S. educational progress and economic competitiveness - a point underscored by the legislation's strong support from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, both of whom were on a press call today also featuring conservative leaders highlighting the moral reasons to support DREAM. Also speaking on the call with Secretary Duncan and Secretary Gutierrez were Carlos Campo, President of Regent University; Rev. Troy Jackson, Senior Pastor, University Christian Church, Cincinnati, OH; and Juan Hernandez, the founder of Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

· The Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial, "Restrictionists dismiss the Dream Act as an amnesty that rewards people who entered the country illegally. But the bill targets individuals brought here by their parents as children. What is to be gained by holding otherwise law-abiding young people, who had no say in coming to this country, responsible for the illegal actions of others? The Dream Act also makes legal status contingent on school achievement and military service, the type of behavior that ought to be encouraged and rewarded." The Journal's editorial also took on the argument espoused by Lamar Smith that Republicans do not have a Latino voter problem due to their immigration stance. In contrast, their editorial noted the political necessity of the Republicans supporting DREAM, writing, "If Republicans hope to limit President Obama to one term, they'll need to win in Mountain West states Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico with fast-growing Hispanic populations. The Dream Act is an opportunity for the GOP to send a welcoming signal to these voters. More important, it would do right by undocumented youths who did nothing to deserve their current vulnerability to deportation."

· The Economist voiced its support for DREAM by editorializing, "It is a testament to just how nasty the immigration debate has become that a measure that would bring the fearful out of the shadows, encourage tertiary education in a section of the workforce that needs more of it and supply the undermanned army with recruits has gone nowhere."


Said Sharry, "The DREAM debate is a litmus test for what type of nation we want to be, and it's heartening to see such a wide array of Republican and conservative voices call for DREAM's passage and reject the cries for inaction that some Republicans are beginning to float."

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/11/29-13



That's really pathetic. The Wall Street Journal ... should be renamed the Wall Street Bail-Out Journal. Regents University ... who cares what some University President thinks? Chicago Tribune? Oh puleeze make me puke. Juan Hernandez is the founder of "Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform"? No one could write comedy this funny. Juan Hernandez ... is a foreign agent representing the nation of Mexico, not the United States.

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Juan Hernandez was born in 1955 in the city of Fort Worth, Texas, of a Mexican immigrant father and a Texan mother. He completed his undergraduate studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin and he then received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees at Texas Christian University. Juan Hernandez has dedicated himself to the study of Mexico-U.S. relations for many years. He has been a professor at various universities, creating a Center for United States-Mexico Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.

In 1996, Juan Hernández invited Vicente Fox (then Governor of the Mexican State of Guanajuato) to speak at UT, Dallas and meet George W. Bush (then Governor of Texas) -- a historical meeting that hoped to mark a new outlook in Mexico-U.S. relations.

During this Texas trip, Governor Fox asked Dr. Hernandez to help create “Guanajuato Trade Offices,â€

No budget, no extension of the tax cuts, no word on unemployment yet this congress has plenty of time to work on the Dream act to benefit illegals. It's time we remind them who they work for.

JH is that grinning fool who actually said that he wanted Mexican/Americans to think Mexico First right down to the 6th and 7th generations.

I'd call that sending infiltrators!

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— vb
1. to undergo or cause to undergo the process in which a fluid passes into the pores or interstices of a solid; permeate
2. military to pass undetected through (an enemy-held line or position)
3. to gain or cause to gain entrance or access surreptitiously: they infiltrated the party structure

— n
4. something that infiltrates
5. pathol any substance that passes into and accumulates within cells, tissues, or organs
6. pathol a local anaesthetic solution injected into the tissues to cause local anaesthesia

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this is a major attempt at recastting our country to turn it into an american canada. this is very very dangerous and will end in tears!

PLEASE continue to TAKE ACTION AGAINST DREAM ACT!

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