Local Students Crushed After DREAM Act Fails

Undocumented students at Miami-Dade College broke into tears Tuesday afternoon, after the U.S. Senate voted to keep the DREAM Act out of the defense bill.

Many of the students had hoped the measure would change their lives forever, opening doors to opportunity. So when the vote came in, devastation filled the room.

"I'm heart-broken," said Esteban Roncancio, an undocumented student with tears in his eyes. "I thought finally we would get a chance to give back to this country that we all love,"

Nineteen-year-old Adan Quesada was also overwhelmed with emotion while watching the news. His parents brought him to the United States when he was just 19-years-old.

"I can't do a lot of stuff I thought I could do as a kid," said Quesada. "I was brought here at a young age and I thought my whole life I was American until I got to my senior year and I can't work, I can't drive, I couldn't even go to college and now I'm working hard to not be oppressed and fight against it and be somebody."

The DREAM Act would have given some young undocumented immigrants the chance to become permanent residents if they completed two years of college or served two years in the military.

It is a move that Floridians for Immigration Enforcement have been fighting.

"We call it the dream stealing amnesty act," said David Caulkett, the group's Vice President. "It redistributes dreams away from citizen students and gives those college dreams to illegal alien students and that's just grossly unfair."

While Caulkett and his group are rejoicing the senate's move Tuesday, the students hoping for legalization are vowing not to give up.

"I'm sad, I'm very sad," said Felipe Matos, an undocumented student. "But I have to be strong for my friends and I have to be strong so we can keep on fighting."
http://cbs4.com/local/dream.act.denied.2.1924515.html

i hope there happy..... destroying the dreams of hundreds of thousands of kids because of a misinformed and mislead fear of competition.......

This is where they can't give up. We must urge Senate majority leader Reid and Majority Whip Durbin to bring the DREAM Act as a standalone bill. More senators supported it than apposed it as a standalone. With the inclusion of the support of Senator Bennett (R-UT) who says he wants to support the DREAM Act but not in the defense bill because of other controversial measures in the bill.

this is explains why i didn't want to get my hopes up to begin with.

WTF?! He's not even eligible for DREAM.

Where is this article from?

lmao I wish I could reverse my age too!!!!!!!!!

LMFAO.. I know right. Why is he crying?

lol. I laughed when I read that because of the "just 19 years old" like 19 is a tiny child. I think this was an error, cuz they say the boy is 19, and then say his parents brought him at 19.

They didn't even vote on the dream Act.