If you guys look at the situation dispassionately (as in not personally benefiting from the legislation), I think we can start to understand the vantage point of Senator Reid here.

If you imagine that you are documented/pro-immigration and looked at two different plans - one plan legalizes less than a million people along with more stringent border and interior enforcement and the other plan legalizes 11 million people along with more stringent border and interior enforcement - you'll obviously choose the second plan that legalizes more people because the second plan actually solves the problem policy-wise instead of leaving millions of people without status.

I wish Dream could pass stand alone but it looks like it can't without security provisions attached to it. Unfortunately, the security provisions needs to be saved for a CIR/Dream Act bill.