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Durbin Says Immigration Reform Will Have To Wait Until Next Year

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10-23-2009, 06:51 PM
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Nice to see our sponsor speaking about the Dream act.
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Hoping to add some urgency to the debate in Washington, Rep. Luis Gutierrez recently said he will introducea comprehensive immigration reform package as early as next month. ButSen. Dick Durbin isn't as optimistic that Congress will approve such ameasure in 2009. "We won't do it this year, I don't want to misleadyou," he told the crowd assembled for DePaul University's Perspectiveson Immigration conference this afternoon. "We have too much to do withhealth care reform and so many other things. But Sen. CharlesSchumer of New York ... has promised that the bill will come forwardnext year." And Durbin's DREAM ACT,which would grant undocumented youth conditional permanent residency ifthey meet a set of education or military service criteria, will becentral to that effort. "[W]e can do this," Durbin added. "And I knowwe can do it in the right way."

Watch this clip of the Senate Majority Whip's remarks, in which hedescribes his inspiration for the DREAM ACT, emphasizes the importanceof a fair and equitable immigration system, and expresses his hope that it will be passed "in the first part of next year":
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Nice to see our sponsor speaking about the Dream act.
That was quite and uplifting speech. I know there's a bunch of you guys who can no longer afford to wait longer till the dream act passes, but I'm in a more flexible situation. I've filed an application this March through my brother, but it will take more than 15 years to see anything, so if the Dream Act passes, even within 3..4..5 years I'll be happy. Lets hope it passes this coming year, though!
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