Thread: After Vote Fails in Senate, Panel Discusses Immigration

After Vote Fails in Senate, Panel Discusses Immigration
BY Taylor Fife
Contribution Writer
Thursday, October 25, 2007


A few hours after the U.S. Senate rejected consideration of a bill allowing undocumented immigrants to be eligible for financial aid and potentially citizenship, policymakers came to campus to speak on the future of immigration legislation.
The federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would have repealed a 1996 law limiting financial aid benefits available for undocumented students, and also would have allowed immigrants under the age of 16 who go on to attend college or join the military to move towards legal status.

The proposal, submitted by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., required 60 votes to initiate formal debate. Yesterday it failed with 52 voting in favor and 44 against.

Yesterday’s panel discussion in Wheeler Hall featured State Senator Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, who supported the state version of the DREAM Act recently vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Maria Echaveste, Boalt Hall School of Law lecturer and Deputy Chief of Staff under President Clinton from 1998-2001.

“This campus, as the epicenter of the Free Speech Movement and place that has taken up the moral issues of the day, really is a place that should be taking up these issues,â€

So let me get this straight. I opposed the DREAM ACT. So I am a reacist, a mother and grandmother of stupid American kids. WE areshort of workers that we need to import uneducted, poor people and then educate them so they can take jobs away from stupid American kids.

[quote]“They don’t stand for anything,â€

Echaveste said that the debate primarily centers around questions of race.

WRONG! People like YOU, Echaveste, scream and whine about race.
The issue at hand has ZERO to do with race and you know it. Illegal is illegal- there should be no debate. You've played your last card- Now fold and get outta the game!

[quote="realbsball"][quote]“They don’t stand for anything,â€

Gil Cedillo is an ethnocentric, left wing politician who is obssessed with giving drivers licenses to California illegals. He is also buddies with Antonio Villaraigosa, the ethnocentric mayor of Los Angeles.

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Call the Senate: NO AgJOBS Amnesty !