Originally Posted by dexterchach

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,1562542.story

WASHINGTON – Part-time college student Ray Jose arrived at Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s office this week with an overriding goal: To convince the West Virginia Democrat to back off his proposal to stiffen the educational requirements in the Dream Act section of the bipartisan immigration bill.

The Dream Act is among the more popular, and less contested, parts of the Senate immigration overhaul – a provision that would allow young people who were brought to the United States as minors to receive green cards more swiftly if they serve in the military or attend college.

Manchin, perhaps the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, is proposing an amendment to toughen the measure. He wants to prevent Dreamers, as the young immigrants call themselves, from access to the bill’s expedited five-year path to permanent legal status until they graduate from “any institution of higher learning,” according to a summary. Without graduating, they would be on the same 10-year path as most other immigrants.

sounds fine to me. I think they should even push it further that the degree come from an accredited institution, not just ANY institution.