Las Vegas Hispanic teens meet with Harry Reid

http://www.necn.com/02/24/11/Vegas-H...4f0501f5a8d1d1

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid visited with students Thursday afternoon at the Las Vegas high school where one-time rival and tea party favorite Sharron Angle's campaign sputtered to an end after an odd exchange with a group of Hispanic teenagers.

Reid chatted with the same Hispanic student group at Rancho High School where Angle told more than 100 teenagers that some of them could be confused as Asian. She also denied using images of Hispanics in a handful of fearful advertisements slamming illegal immigrants.

Reid didn't enter the same tension-filled school room Angle rambled into during the final sprint of the November election. Many of the members of the Hispanic Student Union volunteered for his campaign during the fractious contest in 2010.

But the students did have some piercing questions for Reid, said club adviser and history teacher Isaac Barron, a Reid supporter. The students, whose high school is 70 percent Hispanic, asked Reid why the Dream Act died in the Senate a month after the election. The legislation would have cleared a path to citizenship for some children of illegal immigrants.

"The kids were so disappointed," Barron said. "I was sad to tears, as well."

The meeting was closed to the press. Barron said the students also asked the Democratic leader to call for another vote on the measure this year.

Some Hispanic students at Rancho High are illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were young and likely could have qualified for benefits under the Dream Act, Barron said.

The teenagers struck an unsympathetic front when Angle, a Republican, came to visit the group at their request in October. A student asked why her advertisements focused on images of Hispanics, and Angle offered a lengthy explanation that some students and Barron found insulting. It was one of her final public appearances in the waning days of the campaign.

Reid spokesman Zac Petkanas said Reid hopes to call another vote soon. But the years-long effort to pass the measure has little traction in Congress.

yup read it already hopefully the vote that Reid wants to bring to the table won't be as lame as in the one in the Lame duck session!

Da 2011!!!











































...not!!

This was a stupid post.

I hope it comes up again in 2011.

The DA bill that died last year was the most conservative version. This bill has to be watered down even further if we want it to be passed. If the bill has a pathway to citizenship, there is no way in hell the bill will pass even if there is only one GOP member in the entire congress. This is the stronger party and it is up to them whether we will get our bill.

even if it comes up...it's not gonna pass.