DREAM Act dies in Senate

Republicans crush Dream Act in Senate
WASHINGTON — A last-ditch Democratic effort to establish a path to Citizenship for some Children of undocumented immigrants failed in the Senate on Saturday, likely derailing any attempt at sweeping Immigration Reform in Congress for the foreseeable future. The bill, known as the DREAM Act, had passed the House, and its advocates and Democratic sponsors hoped that they could muster enough Republican votes to bring the Legislation to the floor. Instead, it fell Victim to a GOP Filibuster, ...

Republicans block DREAM Act from advancing in Senate
The Senate failed to overcome a Republican Filibuster of the DREAM Act on Saturday, giving a setback to a major policy issue of Democrats, Latinos and Immigration Reform supporters. The DREAM Act would give Illegal Immigrants who came to the country at a young age, lived here for at least five years, graduated from High School and attended college or served in the Military a pathway toward Citizenship. By a 55-41 vote, it was five votes short of the 60 it needed to advance. In the end, three Rep...

Senate Roll Call: Falling short on Dream Act
-- The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats' majority in the Senate next month. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 indep...

Dream Act fails to advance in Senate
Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — The Senate rejected a path to Citizenship for some Illegal Immigrants on Saturday, a defeat that pushes any effort to reform Immigration into the next Congress where Conservatives will have even more influence. In a 55-41 vote, senators failed to advance the DREAM Act, which would have provided a way to legalize those immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally as Children and who attend college or serve in the Military. Three Republ...

Republcans end year with scrooge move on immigration
Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Military. Sponsors of the DREAM Act fell five votes short of the 60 they needed to break through largely GOP opposition and win its enactment before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats‘ majority in the Senate next month. “A minority of senators prevented the Senate from doing what most...

Senate roll vote on Dream Act immigration changes
The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats’ majority in the Senate next month. A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 inde...

Bad News-The DREAM has died
Awwwwww. The weeks of rallies, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for Immigration Activists. The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a Filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year and shutting the door on what perhaps was the last chance for pro-immigration reform Legislation until at least the 2012 election. Darn it. I was so looking forward to oodles more illegals pouring th...

Harry Reid, DREAM ON Dream Act Blocked by US Senate 55 to 41
Hey Harry Reid and Democrats … DREAM ON!   “Dream On” - Live from Aerosmith Boston 2009 The  DREAM Act once again failed to break a Filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year. The next time this will be an issue is the 2012 election. The Senate blocked the Dream Act, a bill that was nothing more than backdoor Amnesty ,  that  would have created a path to Citizenship for certain young Illegal Immigrants wh

Awwwww. Fish Wrap Is Concerned For Barry After DREAM Act Defeat
Apparently, the defeat of the DREAM Act Amnesty bill has left Obama's policy in disarray. Really, what policy of his isn't in disarray? The majority of Americans are against most of what he done/tried to do, as well as what he wants to do now. So many have said "this isn't what we thought we were voting for in 2008." Gee, if only they had focused more on what Obama stood for, rather than falling for hopey changeyness. Anyhow, Julia Preston of the Fish Wrap brings us the "news analysis", otherwis...

Immigration activists disappointed after Senate blocks DREAM Act
A bill that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented Students was blocked in the Senate on Saturday, effectively killing its chances of passing this year. Sixty votes were needed to overcome Republican efforts to prevent action on the Legislation, known as the DREAM Act. Proponents could muster only 55 -- with 44 senators voting no. Immigration Activists and undocumented students, some of whom drove overnight from Miami to Washington, reacted with frustration on...

Senate Roll Call: Falling short on Dream Act
The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats’ majority in the Senate next month. A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 inde...

Dream Act dries up in Senate, posing problem for Obama
Washington • The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrant Students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of young immigrants and also appeared to leave in disarray the Immigration policy of President Barack Obama's administration, which has supported the bill and the movement. A vote to bring the bill, known as the DREAM Act, up for debate gained 55 votes in favor with 41 against, a tally that fell short of t...

Senate Blocks DREAM Act, "Disappointing" Says Obama
Undocumented College Student Jorge Herrera, 18, center, of Carson, Calif., rallies with Students and DREAM Act supporters in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond) After numerous Protests, debates and delays, the DREAM Act failed to break a Filibuster in the Senate with a 55-41 vote. The act—which would provide a path to Citizenship for immigrants who came to the country before they were 16, are under the age of 30, earned a High School diploma or a GED and enroll...

Undocumented students devastated after U.S. Senate blocks DREAM Act - Immigration - MiamiHerald.com
A Controversial bill that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented Students was blocked once again in the Senate Saturday. The 55-41 vote in of the so-called DREAM Act was five votes shy of moving onto the Senate floor, effectively killing its chances of passing this year. Immigration Activists and undocumented students, some of whom drove overnight from Miami to Washington, reacted with frustration on hearing the final vote. Dozens gathered at Yambo Restaurant ...

Requiem for a DREAM Act
The DREAM Act, which would have provided de facto Amnesty for millions of Illegal Immigrants died in the Senate today, which is good for all of us. We simply can not ignore our own laws, especially Immigration laws, and hope to keep our nation intact. I feel for those people who were brought here illegally by their parents or relatives and who have grown up knowing only America as home. It’s not their fault they’re here and they are in a terrible position. Most of them have no desire...

The Associated Press Has a Bad DREAM
**Written by Doug Powers Tom Blumer at Newsbusters passes along this Associated Press headline/story about the DREAM Act being voted down yesterday: Republicans block youth Immigration Bill Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Military Sponsors of the Dream Act fell five votes short of the 60 they needed to break through largely GOP opposition and...

Letters: FDA not needed on cosmetics
Your columnist, Neil Shapiro, wants to give the Food and Drug Administration "some teeth." The last thing we should do is sharpen the FDA's fangs. Shapiro did give some excellent advice. Unfortunately, that advice was buried within some of the worst advice imaginable. The good advice? If you want to know what's in your cosmetics, go to www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. The bad advice? Give the FDA even more power over our lives and our decisions about what to use in and on our bodies. The FDA already...

Tea Party scores major win on illegal immigration
Illegal Immigration has been a key issue in the Tea Party in this area - as at this June rally.    This area's Tea Party - which was rooted in Protests by area building tradesmen against Illegal Aliens - scored a major win today: the defeat of the DREAM Act mini-amnesty for younger illegal aliens.  Today, the Senate voted 55-41 to defeat the DREAM Act - and both senators from North Carolina, including Democrat Kay Hagan, voted to defeat it.    The Tea Party's leade...

Youth immigration bill falls five votes short of passage
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans yesterday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Military. Sponsors of the DREAM Act fell five votes short of the 60 they needed to break through largely GOP opposition and win its enactment before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats’ majority in the Senate next month. President Obama called the vote “incredibly dis...

Can-Do Attitude Grips "Git R Done" Congress
“It’s A Wonderful Life”? Not sure if it’s that classic flick, or maybe it's a whole bunch of movies that have featured a line that goes something like this: “Wouldn’t it be great if folks acted like it was Christmas all year round?” Or, in the case of the United States Congress, the extra work and Productivity, the spirit of cooperation - well, relatively and/or comparatively speaking, that is. Facing what GOP leaders have pointed to as the downright ung...

Plan bans illegals from public universities
The "DREAM Act" plan, defeated in Congress today, would have given benefits and rights to Illegal Aliens who want to go to school in the U.S., but the state of Virginia isn't prepared to depend on what Washington decides - it has its own plan to address the situation: a ban on those Students in public colleges and universities. A leading GOP legislator in the Virginia House of Delegates is poised to introduce a bill which would prohibit Illegal Aliens from attending public colleges and universi...

Two Dreams, One Dead
The Senate today passed the Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which is a good thing. It did not pass the "DREAM Act," which is a cold, cold abomination. There is a relationship between the two. Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will allow Homosexuals--who have fought honorably in every one of America's wars--to serve openly. Blocking the "Dream Act" means that young immigrants, who were brought here illegally by their parents, will not be able to gain Citizenship by completing college or by ser...

DREAM Act Fails
Senate Democrats could muster only 55 votes in support of the DREAM Act, "a measure that would have created a pathway to Citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as Children," the Washington Post reports. "Under Senate rules, Democrats needed 60 votes to overcome Republican opposition to the bill. The House of Representatives had passed the measure earlier this month, 216 to 198." "The irony of the DREAM Act's failure is that it had strong Bipartisan support at ...

Senate Roll Call: Falling short on Dream Act
The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats' majority in the Senate next month. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 Independents. Voting...

'Don't ask': Obama praises Senate's gay ban repeal
(12-19) 04:00 PST Washington - -- The Senate voted to abolish the 17-year-old ban on gays and Lesbians in the Military known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on Saturday, ending a tumultuous chapter in American Civil Rights history and the last bastion of legal Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation. Eight moderate Republicans joined 55 Democrats and two Independents in a final vote of 65-31 to pass a stand-alone bill that was protected from legislative attack by a special procedure devised by H...