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DREAM Act faces dim future in House, but…

By Jim Kouri
Thursday, December 30, 2010

The GOP takeover of the House of Representatives in the New Year is worrying some members of the Latino population and left-wing activists who were hoping the much-touted DREAM Act would pass and become a first step in achieving amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

The Democrat-controlled Senate even failed to pass the DREAM Act in December, leaving it to the new Congress—which returns on January 5, 2011—to try again.

The DREAM Act, which stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, is being sold by the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party as a granted legal residency for the many illegal aliens brought to the United States as children. However, the act would benefit adults as old as 30, which caused the Republicans to criticize it as a backdoor amnesty bill.

When the bill failed to pass, President Barack Obama called it “maybe my biggest disappointment.â€