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The day of reckoning has arrived for the only piece of immigration reform legislation still pending before Congress.

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Once upon a time, the DREAM Act had bipartisan support and seemed like the easiest sell in a batch of deeply controversial immigration reform measures. Under the DREAM Act, children who were brought to the U-S illegally could earn legal status by going to college or serving in the military. Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has supported the measure in the past. But if it comes up for a vote today, as planned –

HATCH Not at this time. In all honesty I had promises that they would secure the border. My empathy is with young people… But unless we can secure the border you can’t get the public support for that.

Nor apparently, can it get the support of Senator George LeMieux, Republican of Florida.

LeMIEUX If it doesn’t have border security, I’m not going to vote for it.

Opposition to the bill isn’t just among Republicans citing border security concerns.

NELSON We have not finished the tax issues, jobs, debt or the economy.

Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, voted for an earlier version of the DREAM Act. But this time he plans to vote ‘no’ also.

The DREAM Act is poised for votes in both chambers of Congress today. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a Republican Representative from South Florida. The “tea leavesâ€