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U.S. student immigrants long awaited DREAM Act put on hold as lame duck session comes to an end in three weeks
By H. Nelson Goodson
December 9, 2010
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, U.S. Senate Democrats decided to postpone the DREAM Act vote until they can assure the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster. Democrats voted down a previous Senate DREAM Act version to let the new House version come to debate and a vote.
Senator Harry Reid (D-Navada) majority leader decided to postpone a vote until Democrats can secure enough votes to pass the act. There are only three weeks left for the lame duck session to end.
House Democrats before noon on Thursday decided on a binding vote not to bring up to a vote the Republican/Obama tax cuts, including extending federal unemployment conssessions.
The latest, feds taking high-speed rail $1.2 billion funding from Wisconsin and Ohio and allocating it to other states, according to White House sources
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the long awaited DREAM Act by a margin of bipartisan 216 - 198 votes, including eight Republicans. 38 Democrats voted with a majority of Republicans against it.
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Aliens Minors Act) would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students who were brought to the U.S. at a young age of 16 and lived in the U.S. for five years. Students must have graduated from a credited high school or have completed the G.E.D., have good moral character, pass a background check and complete at least two years of college or military service.
The DREAM Act will affect about 2 million undocumented students in the U.S.
The House approval comes after millions of undocument parents have already contributed billions of tax dollars and Social Security (SS) in the last twenty years and don't collect tax refunds or qualify for SS retirement benefits. The enormous support that was generated by immigrant rights groups and supporters throughout the nation to convince House representatives to approve it, finnally paid off. But now, Democrats are stalling approval until they can get the votes needed to pass it.
The House DREAM Act approval comes as a major blow for anti-immigrant groups and anti-amnesty organizations, which have engaged in racially motivated attacks and negative propaganda advocating against it.
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicated that the approval of the DREAM Act would help cut the federal deficit by $1.4 billion, and generate $2.3 billion in corporate and social insurance taxes within the next ten years. http://bit.ly/fk6B3N
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U.S. student immigrants long awaited DREAM Act put on hold as lame duck session comes to an end in three weeks
By H. Nelson Goodson
December 9, 2010
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, U.S. Senate Democrats decided to postpone the DREAM Act vote until they can assure the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster. Democrats voted down a previous Senate DREAM Act version to let the new House version come to debate and a vote.
Senator Harry Reid (D-Navada) majority leader decided to postpone a vote until Democrats can secure enough votes to pass the act. There are only three weeks left for the lame duck session to end.
House Democrats before noon on Thursday decided on a binding vote not to bring up to a vote the Republican/Obama tax cuts, including extending federal unemployment conssessions.
The latest, feds taking high-speed rail $1.2 billion funding from Wisconsin and Ohio and allocating it to other states, according to White House sources
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the long awaited DREAM Act by a margin of bipartisan 216 - 198 votes, including eight Republicans. 38 Democrats voted with a majority of Republicans against it.
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Aliens Minors Act) would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students who were brought to the U.S. at a young age of 16 and lived in the U.S. for five years. Students must have graduated from a credited high school or have completed the G.E.D., have good moral character, pass a background check and complete at least two years of college or military service.
The DREAM Act will affect about 2 million undocumented students in the U.S.
The House approval comes after millions of undocument parents have already contributed billions of tax dollars and Social Security (SS) in the last twenty years and don't collect tax refunds or qualify for SS retirement benefits. The enormous support that was generated by immigrant rights groups and supporters throughout the nation to convince House representatives to approve it, finnally paid off. But now, Democrats are stalling approval until they can get the votes needed to pass it.
The House DREAM Act approval comes as a major blow for anti-immigrant groups and anti-amnesty organizations, which have engaged in racially motivated attacks and negative propaganda advocating against it.
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicated that the approval of the DREAM Act would help cut the federal deficit by $1.4 billion, and generate $2.3 billion in corporate and social insurance taxes within the next ten years. http://bit.ly/fk6B3N
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