Thread: DREAM defeat - Statement from NILC

The following is the statement that the National Immigration Law Center just sent out.

Note that they are threatening an attempt to resurrect the DREAM Act again.

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http://www.nilc.org/


Statement on DREAM Act Vote

Please send all email responses to vargas@nilc-dc.org.

We are not giving up. Too much is at stake.

This afternoon, a bipartisan 52-44 majority of the Senate voted in favor of permitting debate on the DREAM Act, S. 2205, legislation that would provide a path to legal status for young people who were brought to the U.S. years ago as children. Unfortunately, 60 votes were needed, so the DREAM Act could not proceed.

We are saddened and enraged that 60 votes could not be mustered for this bill, which would transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of deserving young people. But like those young people, the DREAM Act is not going away.

The vote was closer than it looks. All four Senators who - each for valid reasons - were unable to make the vote were DREAM Act supporters. Several others had indicated that they would vote in favor of the DREAM Act if it looked as if their votes would have made a difference. For the DREAM Act to have come so close is a remarkable accomplishment, given the level of panic now felt by many politicians about anything that affects immigrants

On the other hand, the DREAM Act suffered a major blow, perhaps the decisive one, when the White House came out in opposition just minutes before the vote. The reasons given for opposition were specious and small minded? a long way from the President who once expressed compassion and understanding for the plight of immigrants who have left their homelands, often with their children in tow, and made the sometimes dangerous journey to the U.S. in search of a better life here. He now appears to have abandoned any sympathy for those children.

Although it is now more of a long-shot, there is still a chance that the DREAM Act could be resurrected and enacted this year. It continues to enjoy bipartisan support, including a majority of the Senate and the some of the most powerful members of Congress. For the sake of tens of thousands of young people whose activism and powerful life stories have carried the DREAM Act so far, and for the sake of the nation, we will not give up.

and for the sake of the nation, we will not give up.

Which is the same reason we will not give up. It's for the sake of OUR nation.. Not yours. Why not go back to yours and make it a better place.

poppycock and balderdash!

Geez, some just don't know when to quit!!

YOU LOST. AGAIN, AND AGAIN. GET.......OVER........IT...........

If they will not "give up," then we will just have to retire them!!

We are so over saturated with illegal's in very state and our all witnessing what some had witnessed 2 years ago, that there is not a stinkin chance that the americans are going to let things go by. The Mexican Government and their citizens have just seen the fight start. (So have you Bush and your botts)

I think this article is from the same organization that had a representative on c-span this morning.It was during the Round Table on the Dream Act.I called the program and expressed my feelings on the dream act.Of course the lady from the pro Dream Act side didn't agree with my assessment of the Dream Act being bad for America.

a long way from the President who once expressed compassion and understanding for the plight of immigrants who have left their homelands, often with their children in tow, and made the sometimes dangerous journey to the U.S. in search of a better life here. He now appears to have abandoned any sympathy for those children.

They continue to skirt the fact that they are not "immigrants," they are "illegal aliens." They kill me how they twist facts in an attempt to garner sympathy. This description sounds like they came here on the Mayflower or something. Give me a break!

Americans are "saddened and enraged" that so many of the Senators of the United States of America would vote in favor of such an amnesty as the Dream Act. Forget the sad part, they are enraged.

Psalm 139:14

"saddened and enraged" ...Yes you got that right American Citizens are "saddened and enraged"...that we have gone down this road 5 times

Oh, those young illegal aliens will be going somewhere in the near future. They will be going back home to their own countries as our citizens, as our Congress, and as our current laws decree.

W