Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails

Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails
Los Angeles – Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group of College Students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of Legislation. But it won't be easy. The Senate vote Saturday to toss the proposal that would have granted young Illegal Immigrants a route to legal status dealt a harsh blow to Student Activists who will f...

Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails
Los Angeles -- Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group of College Students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of Legislation. But it won't be easy. The Senate vote Saturday to toss the proposal that would have granted young Illegal Immigrants a route to legal status dealt a harsh blow to Student Activists who will face ...

Undeterred, Students DREAM Up New Plan for 2012
Young immigrants who fought to get the DREAM Act passed will now focus on the 2012 Elections. After the disappointment of Saturday's blockage of the DREAM Act, College Students in Los Angeles are planning to take their fight to the states as their gear up for the 2012 Elections. It will be an uphill battle. The Senate vote Saturday to toss the proposal that would have granted young undocumented immigrants a route to legal status dealt a harsh blow to Student Activists who will face an even steep...

Students Look to 2012 After Immigration Bill Fails in Senate
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Amy Taxin, Associated Press Undocumented UCLA Student Leslie Perez, 22, weeps while watching a televised debate of the DREAM Act in the Senate at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The DREAM Act would give provisional legal status to Illegal Immigrants who were brought to the country as Children. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond) Los Angeles (AP) - Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group...

Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails
Undocumented UCLA Student Leslie Perez, 22, weeps while watching a televised debate of the DREAM Act in the Senate at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Perez is an undocumented Student at UCLA. The DREAM Act would give provisional legal status to Illegal Immigrants brought to the country as Children. Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group of College Students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take th...

Obama's political arm vows to revive DREAM Act
President Obama's political arm vowed to revive the DREAM Act on Monday after the Senate jettisoned the issue in a weekend vote. Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing For America (OFA), the president's political arm within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), sought to reassure liberal and Hispanic voters that they would look to pass the Immigration Bill again in the future. "This fight isn't over -- and when it comes up in the next Congress, we need to be on the record saying that R...

Immigrant Legalization in the United States and European Union: Policy Goals and Program Design
Immigrant legalization, while highly Controversial on both sides of the Atlantic, is a critical and widely used tool for managing illegal Immigration. Lawmakers seeking to design effective legalization regimes must balance competing goals: inclusiveness versus avoidance of rewarding illegal behavior, and assuring a high rate of participation without admitting ineligible migrants or encouraging future illegal migration. In a new report out today, Immigrant Legalization in the United States and ...

Republicans block youth immigration bill
WASHINGTON – 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. President Barack Obama called the vote "incredibly disap...

Times Laments 'Painful Setback' to 'Dream Act' Amnesty for Illegals
Reporter Julia Preston’s “news analysis” on Sunday on the Senate the defeat of Legislation granting Amnesty to hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants, known as the DREAM Act by supporters (“Immigration Vote Leaves Obama’s Policy in Disarray”) is a reversal of the emotion displayed in her previous celebratory coverage of even the puniest symbolic gatherings of pro-“Dream Act” Protesters involving as few as four Students. Preston seemed anguish...

Republicans Block DREAM Act, Another Old Media Lie
The Old Media is up to its old tricks again, this time making the GOP the fall guy for the failure of the latest Immigration Bill. Nearly every news outlet is reporting that the Republicans have blocked the DREAM Act, many of these reports even say so right in the headline. The truth, however, is not that the GOP blocked it, but that the Democrats didn't get all its own members to vote for it. In fact, if the Democrats could have gotten five more of their own members to vote "yea" the bill woul...

Tester draws ire of liberals
After embracing him in his 2006 upset win over GOP Sen. Conrad Burns, Progressives turned on Montana Sen. Jon Tester in response to his vote against the DREAM Act Saturday, complicating his prospects for Reelection next year. The first-term Democratic senator’s decision to oppose Legislation that would have provided a pathway to Citizenship for Children who came to the country illegally instantly roiled the Liberal Base. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “Not only...

Obama Administration Set New Deportation Record to Appease GOP
In an effort to win GOP favor on Immigration Legislation in Congress, the Obama Administration stepped up ICE Deportations of undocumented workers to record levels. More than 800,000 immigrants were moved out of the United States in just two years by President Obama to appease Republicans, according to the Washington Post. Whenever Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and other immigrant-rights advocates asked President Obama how a Democratic administration could preside over the greatest number of d...

Congress Approves Private Bill To Help Illegal Immigrant
  A rare private bill recently approved by the United States Congress will allow an Illegal Immigrant living in southern California to remain in the country and become a permanent resident. The secret law on behalf of one individual appears to be a growing trend among some pro-amnesty Democrats who are quietly blocking the Deportations of Illegal Aliens and sponsoring clandestine Legislation to keep the violators in the country ...

Does America Still Need Mass Immigration?
This weekend, the DREAM Act was blocked in the Senate.  My latest column for CNN.com presents some tough questions Congress should answer before considering Immigration Reform again. Senators are a lot like College Students. For months on end, they seem to do no work at all. And then everything gets crammed into the last weekend of the term. This past weekend, the Senate finished off a huge pile of work at once. Among the items voted on: The DREAM act, a form of Amnesty for Illegal Aliens who...

A Tea Party Leader Hates Christians
Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, has a dream of "no more United Methodist Church." That's right, Phillips, who says he was raised in the Methodist Church until he learned it was "little more than the first Church of Karl Marx," was incensed that the United Methodist Building (known to locals as "the God box") on Capitol Hill had a sign supporting the DREAM Act. (h/t Religion News Service). "After all," Phillips adds, "what can you say about a church that considers Hillary Clinton to...

Whitman paid a high price for Latino distrust of GOP
Meg Whitman's former lead spokesman is starting to speak up about the Candidate's losing race for Governor. And he's shouting about the need for Republicans to stop the demagoguery over illegal Immigration. Senior advisor Rob Stutzman isn't exactly spilling his guts about the former eBay chief's spectacular thumping. The Billionaire lost to low-budget Jerry Brown by 54% to 41%, despite spending a record $160 million-plus, roughly $142 million of it her own money. But the Veteran Republican stra...

UC San Diego grad student scrambling to avoid deportation
Mark Farrales figured his time in America could be up when he answered the door at his Reseda home to find two men standing there in black bulletproof vests emblazoned with three large white letters. "It read ICE," he said. "My heart just sank." The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there to arrest him for being in the country illegally. Save Up to 90%: Sign up for our free daily e-mail to get in on exclusive deals around L.A. Powered by Groupon. Subscribe Now. Brought here by hi...

The Annals Of Long Form, Atlantic Edition
by Conor Friedersdorf As some of you know, I run a newsletter called The Best Of Journalism where exceptional non-fiction is curated and discussed, mostly because I just can’t get enough of the stuff as a reader. I fully awakened to this world of writing during graduate school, but my appetite was whet even earlier than that by this magazine, one of the first national publications I began reading sometime in High School. (In this regard I am especially indebted to James Fallows. In those day...

Does the GOP Have a Tea Party Problem? (The Atlantic Wire)
WASHINGTON, DC – Many wondered not whether the Tea Party would become a Headache for Republicans, but when. The answer might be: right now. John Boehner hasn't even claimed his speakerly throne yet, and already there are "signs of a rift" between top Republicans and the Tea Party that helped them win a majority in the House, ABC News' Huma Khan reports. Tea Partiers aren't happy about compromises on the Bush Tax Cuts, Food Safety, Gays in the Military, and other compromises that they see...

The Dream Act Fails in the Senate
 DREAM Act Fails! (FoxNews)- DREAM Act Goes Down in Flames in Senate. An Immigration Bill that would blaze a trail to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented Students went down in flames in the Senate on Saturday, delivering a critical blow to Democrats and Hispanic Activists. Even though the House approved the DREAM Act last week, the Senate fell five votes short of the 60 needed Saturday to advance the bill past Republican opposition. President Obama said in a statement it ...

Republicans block youth immigration bill
WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to grant hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as Children a chance to gain legal status if they enroll in college or join the Military. Sponsors of what they call the DREAM Act needed 60 Senate votes for it, but fell five short. The House passed the bill last week. It was a last-ditch effort to enact it before it Republicans take control of the House from Democrats in January. Immigrant advocates viewed ...

Republicans block youth immigration bill
(12-18) 08:34 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to grant hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as Children a chance to gain legal status if they enroll in college or join the Military. Sponsors of what they call the DREAM Act needed 60 Senate votes for it, but fell five short. The House passed the bill last week. It was a last-ditch effort to enact it before it Republicans take control of the House from Democrats in January. Immig...

"Dream Act" immigration bill blocked in Senate (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Controversial measure providing a pathway to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants who came to the United States as Children was dealt a death blow in the Senate on Saturday by Republicans who said it would reward illegal activity. The so-called "DREAM Act" passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, but it failed to gain the 60 votes necessary to overcome opposition in the 100-member Senate. President Barack Obama and Democratic supporters vow...

Latino Leaders Press Senators on Immigration Bill
Latino leaders have turned up the pressure on senators facing a vote on Saturday on a bill that would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrant Students, saying support of the measure will be used as a litmus test by Latino voters in the 2012 Elections. House Vote on Dec. 8: DREAM Act The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Majority Leader, scheduled the vo...

"Dream Act" immigration bill blocked in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Controversial measure providing a pathway to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants who came to the United States as Children was dealt a death blow in the U.S. Senate on Friday by Republicans who said it would reward illegal activity. The so-called "DREAM Act" passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, but it failed in the Senate. The Legislation would provide legal residency to Young People who came to the United States illegally before age 16 and who graduate...