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Sunday Talk Shows (including Fox News) Assail Republicans For Blocking the Dream Act

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12-19-2010, 02:28 PM
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/19/...blicans-dream/

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Yesterday, Senate Republicans blocked the DREAM Act from securing 60 votes to pass cloture, denying hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) even said yesterday on the Senate floor that young people lobbying his office had wasted their time.

Today on the Sunday political talk shows, guests from a wide array of the ideological spectrum assailed the GOP for blocking the measure:

NBC’s ANDREA MITCHELL: The dumbest thing that the Republicans did was the DREAM Act. … that is going to turn out to be a real setback for Republicans because these are people who wanted to serve in the military and get educated and contribute to the society.

NEWARK, NJ MAYOR CORY BOOKER: To tell people who’ve been through high school, high school presidents going on to college some of the best brains who have no relation to their home country. This is crazy. It’s hurting America.

GOP STRATEGIST MARK MCKINNON: The Republican Party has got to recognize Hispanics are the huge growing demographic in this country. … We gotta send the right signal to Hispanics in this country in addition to the fact that it’s the right policy.

FOX NEWS’ JUAN WILLIAMS: The one thing that I regret…is the defeat of the DREAM Act for the immigrants and the immigrant kids. I just think, again, Republicans play politics with real lives, real people, real aspirations and they leave the immigration issue on the table when that’s the real business of the American people.
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12-19-2010, 03:42 PM
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I give up, and I don't want nobody telling me what to do or not to do. SIKE JK. This is just the beginning (WELL atleast for me)
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12-19-2010, 04:33 PM
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I am surprised at Fox's comment.
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Juan Williams is from Panama haha. I want a white person on Fox to say something.
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12-19-2010, 05:10 PM
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Hopefully media take this issue so much in air that next time republicans even think twice to opose dream act in future or even dare to make racist comments on it. I understan their oposition but they schouldn't call us terrorist or drug dealers atleast. Our advocates needs to air on tv and radio wh they have called us and target every single senators though the media. I am sure most american voters have sympthy for dream act and they have heart unlike these snators.
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This nation is a fucking fail. Even if democrats will get a landslide in 2012, still we will be on the bottom of the food chain and maybe somewhere in november of 2013 there will be another vote.
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Juan Williams is from Panama haha. I want a white person on Fox to say something.
Juan is not too fond of brown people from middle east though.
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12-19-2010, 09:14 PM
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Sadly, we will be forgotten before Christmas Eve.

Just think of how much coverage we had gotten in the last 2 years.
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12-20-2010, 12:08 PM
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These comments won't make me feel any better. The Dream Act still didn't pass. My life in this country is over no matter what anyone says or how sympathetic some people feel on tv.

MY LIFE HERE IS OVER!
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