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Durbin will work harder on Dream in the 112th congress

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2011010406003

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Another Democratic priority is immigration. One of the most powerful images of the lame-duck session was a Senate visitors gallery crowded with first-generation American college students, who held hands as lawmakers rejected the DREAM Act. The bill would have provided a path to citizenship for people who entered the country illegally with their parents before their 16th birthday.

Republicans complained about the timing of the bill, but Democrats took note that GOP candidates lost closely contested Senate seats in California, Colorado and Nevada, all states where Hispanic voters are a potent force. Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat and a leading proponent of the DREAM Act, said that some GOP opponents could support the legislation under different circumstances.

"Some of those who voted against it and spoke against it, and were the angriest over it being offered, have told me they want to sit down and talk, and I want to hold them to it," he said.

So it looks to me that the Dems knew it was going to fail, didn't bother with bipartisanship, and rammed the bill through anyway. I think it's unfair for Democratic politicians to stop Republicans from offering amendments to the bill.

As far as I'm concerned, the Dems are just as evil as Republicans. We need to urge them to be BIPARTISAN too, instead of just telling them to legalize us.