DREAM Act vote postponed

WEST PALM BEACH — Supporters of an immigration bill called the Dream Act will stage a newsa conference at West Palm Beach City Hall at noon, to encourage members of Congress to pass the legislation during the current lame duck session.

The Dream Act -- the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act -- would allow undocumented individuals 35 and under, who were brought to this country before the age of 16 and who have finished high school, to achieve legal immigration status in the U.S. if they serve in the U.S. military or complete two years of college.

The bill has the support of military leaders and some of the nations leaders in education, but it was voted down in September when the Democratic leadership attached it to a defense appropriations bill. Not one Republican senator voted for it, dooming the measure.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid have promised to present it again as a stand alone bill during the lame duck session. Pelosi originally scheduled it to be brought to the House floor Monday but postponed it."We are told it will be voted on some time this week or next week," said Manuel Guerra, a member of Students for Equal Rights, a group backing the bill.

The group staging the press conference today is Florida Voices for Immigration Reform (FVIR), a coalition that advocates for comprehensive changes in federal immigration policies.

"Our mission is to secure a passage of the Dream Act and we are contacting our South Florida members of Congress to make it a reality," said Gary Walk, an FVIR representative and vice president of the American Jewish Committee of Palm Beach County. "This is a common sense law that is good for our economy and is great for our military," he said.

Title is a bit misleading... its postponed, but does not mean indefinitely.

Maybe Reid is in the process of compromising?!?!?! Definitely gives us more time to gather support.

It isn't misleading. Indefinitely means no one knows when it will be brought up, when Monday was a definite date, now there is no definite date. Therefore, it is indefinite

just wasted a minute reading this .... very misleading

You clearly don't know what indefinite means. There was no need to add that indefinite to that title of the thread.

Sometime this week or next week.

This is getting annoying. All I really want and expect is status reports and info from inside the beltway. This whole section is filled up with opinion articles, coverage of protests, etc. Finally I decided to search on my own for some hard information. I find it. Then, it isn't what I wanted to hear, but I thought some others might have wanted to know what was going on. So I get attacked, and surely this whole thread will get deleted and it will be replaced by another opinion article. I don't get it, whats the point of going on here if I can't get news. I don't want it to be postponed, but I want to know if it is.

This is the most misleading thing I've ever read. Shame on whoever posted it, trying to mislead us and stuff. No more misleading ok?



P.s.- Misleading!

This is actually good news because they want to be sure it passes so thats why they are taking their time.