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    Students Spell Out Messages on Immigration

    By JULIA PRESTON
    Published: September 20, 2010

    MIAMI — Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of their senators, complete with a human exclamation point: Call LeMieux!

    The students staged the surfside demonstration after Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, announced last week that he would add to a military spending bill an amendment that would open a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students. Senator George LeMieux, a Republican, has not declared his position, and the students hoped to secure his support for the measure, which will be put to a first test on Tuesday with a procedural vote.

    Illegal immigrant students across the country have not been deterred by reports from Washington that the measure, known to its supporters as the Dream Act, has slim chances of passing. Republicans have denounced Mr. Reid’s move to even bring it up just six weeks before midterm elections as a ploy to attract Latino voters during his own hard-fought re-election campaign in Nevada, and they say a proposal on an issue as contentious as immigration should not be attached to the military reauthorization bill.

    But in Phoenix and Boston, immigrant students who want to enlist in the military under the terms of the student bill performed drills over the weekend and on Monday in front of the offices of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Scott P. Brown, Republican of Massachusetts.

    In Utah, students started a call-in campaign and held a sit-down vigil to draw the attention of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a Republican who was one of the first sponsors of the student bill nearly a decade ago, but has not made clear how he will vote this time. In California, immigrants wearing caps and gowns started public fasts, scheduled rallies and unfurled banners over highways. Actions were also reported in nine other states.

    “We are literally asking people to stop their lives to support the bill,â€

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    [quote]“None of us have the idea of the Dream Act not passing even being conceived in our minds,â€
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