Senator Reid Punts DREAM to CIR Advocates

Perhaps it is a positive development, or perhaps it is a development that will have DREAM Act advocates and CIR-only advocate going for each others’ throats, but a Roll Call article today tells us that Majority Leader Harry Reid has made it clear than when CIR advocates advise him that comprehensive immigration reform is dead for the year, that he would push the DREAM Act as a stand-alone initiative.

In an interview with La Opinion, the Nevada Democrat said he is largely leaving it up to reform advocates to tell him when a comprehensive bill is no longer viable and that the Senate should instead move to the narrower DREAM Act.
After backers of a comprehensive bill say “that they feel we cannot get [comprehensive immigration reform] done this year – and the reason why we cannot do it, it’s because we don’t have a single Republican -then I would like to figure out when can we do the DREAM Act. I would like to do it before the elections,” Reid told La Opinion.

So, the ball is punted to the CIR advocates even though the ones carrying the weight right now are the DREAM Act activists. Still, it is the national organizations, such as LULAC, National Council of La Raza, among others, who have been pushing the comprehensive plan and even going as far as not supporting the stand-alone DREAM Act (especially as part of their national legislative agendas).
Given that Senator Reid has made this statement, that we are still within a window of opportunity to perhaps pass DREAM as part of the Defense Authorization act, and that the Latino electorate is waiting for some sort of action as the elections near that would energize them, the national groups should make this happen.
It is obvious that the DREAM Act actions of this week have been effective. It is time to make it happen.

http://doscentavos.net/2010/07/21/se...cir-advocates/

Sounds like worthy news to me, i hope nothing happens that makes him change his mind.

awsome news hope it passes some time next month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA DREAM ACT!!!!!!!!! YEA

Please do this,

if it works im gonna sent a cow's spine to Schumer and Durbin and every other "I believe in this but i wont do shit" senator out there, with a piece of paper saying "here is the replacement backbone..."

Here's a memo from the DREAM Act Portal, Senator Reid: CIR is dead this year. Do DREAM. If you read the trend of opinion on this Portal you will see that even those who were hopeful about CIR are not any longer.

I will expect the bill to be introduced post haste.

Dream was introduced in march of 09, if you mean schumer's cir, i doubt we'll ever see it.

what are LULAC and the National Council of La Raza waiting for!!!

our future is in their hands now!!!! plz do it for uss!! CIR is dead this year!!

Seriously, CIR is gonna be HARD to pass..stop holding Dreamies hostage!!!

CIR is impossible this year, everyone and their dog knows this. Its been almost 10 years since dream got first intro'd, way overdue. Dream is compact, targets the exact population that will benefit the country the most. Win-win for everyone. Just pass it already

Really cir is dead..... Dream act is more important because we are the future.. And are worth so much to our society. I am praying that they pass the dream act. God bless the people who are in support of the act. I admire the people who are starving for us. THANK YOU....!!!