mock graduation at Senator Feinsteins office

"As we write this on Thursday morning, immigrant students are staging a mock graduation and deportation skit at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office.

They are demandng that Feinstein champions the Dream Act, a bill that would allow undocumented students who are in good moral character the chance to obtain legal status.

So far Feinstein said she is a co-sponsor, but The Bay Area Dream Act Coalition said they also want her leadership.

Organizers said that they have only about a two-week period to put the bill on the table again or it will die for the year.

Last time students went to Feinstein’s office on May 20, seven UC Santa Cruz students were arrested after staging a sit in refusing to leave until Feinstein called them personally. They were later released."

http://missionlocal.org/2010/06/immi...ouse_tmsidebar

another lengthier article talking about the same news
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/...ts_protest.php

Only two weeks? Someone explain to me (yes I'm politically slow).. Is this when the 111th Congress thing ends, then all the bills die until reintroduced next session?

nonsense. they can introduce, debate, and vote on a bill in october and have president obama either sign it or veto it. and then there is the lame duck session.

on july 1st many of the advocates will be out of a job since their contracts run out. so unless they start doing what we are doing (do this for free) or get a sugar daddy, they will be leaving the battlefield and we will be by ourselves. they will be moving on to other causes or jobs.

also, the longer it takes, the harder is gets to get something. is not impossible, but harder.

Isn't senate time all busy after july thus making it impossible to debate Dream?

Yes. They do not have all the time in the world.

Energy bill, defense bill, supreme court nomination is next?

yes. but the notion that there is a deadline is nonsense. they can add DREAM at the end if they wish. for those (the fakes and posers) collecting unemployment DREAM is all but dead because they can't make money out of it. they resort to lying to make themselves better.