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Title: BREAKING: (DREAM Act) Student Immigration Bill DIES In U.S. Senate
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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
URL Source: http://www.ocregister.com/news/act-267385-dream-bill.html
Published: Sep 21, 2010
Author: CINDY CARCAMO
Post Date: 2010-09-21 18:19:48 by Murron
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Sept. 21, 2010 Updated: 2:05 p.m. (DREAM Act) Student Immigration Bill DIES In U.S. Senate BY CINDY CARCAMO An act that would have given U.S. residency to certain students and military hopefuls who are in the country illegally died today in the Senate. Senators voted 56 to 43 for the bill, falling short of the 60 votes needed to bring it to the floor. The vote comes after activists ratcheted up their lobbying Monday, generating thousands of calls and faxes to members of Congress in a last-minute push for the DREAM Act. Democratic Senate leaders had wanted the DREAM Act – Development, Relief and Education for Minor Aliens – to be included as an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill. The act would give students and military hopefuls who are in the country illegally a pathway to U.S. citizenship. Locally, the measure has been met with fervor among the anti-illegal immigration contingency that is calling on its members to step up efforts, and threaten Senators with ouster if they vote for the act. Barbara Coe of Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform – an anti-illegal immigration organization – sent members urgent e-mails listing the names and numbers of Senators. Tuesday afternoon, Coe rejoiced when she heard the news. "We were fighting every inch of the way and we had not idea which way it would go,” she said. “We were constantly contacting fellow patriots in addition to urging them to get on those phones and stay on those phones, send those faxes and so forth. With our messages, were our hopes and prayers." The push to build support for the act has also gained unprecedented steam nationally and locally in recent months. Members of the Orange County Dream Team have placed calls to decision makers and posted updates on their Face Book page, urging friends to take action. Nationally, supporters have held vigils and even spread out on a Florida beach to spell out the word "DREAM." Yenni Diaz, a community liaison for the orange County Dream Team, said she hoped the act would pass but was realistic, too. "We still want and are still going to be pushing for a stand-alone bill," said Diaz who said she's holding to hope that the bill will pass during the lame duck session in Congress. Diaz became part of the movement to support students who have lived here most of their lives and have gone on to higher education but are limited because of their legal status. Diaz said she and other Dream Act supporters planned to attend a rally in support of the bill in at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Los Angeles. President Barack Obama has vowed to support the Act since his time in the Senate. "Now, the Senate is going to have a chance to do the right thing over the next few weeks when Senator Reid brings the DREAM Act to the floor," Obama said at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus gala on Wednesday, according to news reports. "Keep in mind, in the past, this was a bill that was supported by a majority of Democrats and Republicans. There's no reason why it shouldn't receive that same kind of bipartisan support today." The proposed federal legislation -- introduced by Senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Richard Lugar of Indiana and Reps. Howard Berman of California and Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida -- has been around since 2000 but has faced opposition and defeat in the past. The bill would allow students who are in the country illegally and who have finished at least two years of college to apply for legal status. If the bill were to become law, those who are in the country illegally and serve at least two years of military service could also be eligible for legal residency. The bill would also allow those students to apply for legal permanent resident status, protect them from deportation and make them eligible for student loans and federal work study programs. Students would need to have lived here at least five years and have arrived before they were 16. Supporters of the bill say it would give students a chance to give back to America by allowing them to use their ability and education to become productive members of society. Critics say it would take already-scarce higher educational resources away from American students and give it to those who are in the country illegally. California senators Diane Feinstein (D-San Francisco) and Barbara Boxer (D-Rancho Mirage) are co-sponsors of the bill. LAWMAKERS AND READERS TAKE SIDES Aside from Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim), local members of Congress are overwhelming opposed to the DREAM Act.
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#3. To: Murron (#0)
Bunny Snatchez. Every time I see that name it makes me want to puke. She stole B-1 Bob Dornan's seat with fraudulent voting (guest voters). The Amnesty for illegal alien invaders who can't find their school "DREAM (nightmare) Act" is a poison pill, which has no place it a Defense Appropriations bill. Both parties knew it would fail. It's just a pre-election publicity stunt.
And when she did, the Republican party said and did ------- nothing.
And when she did, the Republican party said and did ------- nothing. It hardly mattered. The best they could have done was keep it for those 2 years as the demographics had changed.
What mattered was there was clear evidence of voter fraud by Hermandad Nacional Mexicana, who registered thousands of non-citizens to vote. I've always found it interesting that the people who claim to be outraged about supposed Constitutional violations now couldn't care less about a huge one back then.
Proof Of Illegal Voters Falls Short, Keeping Sanchez In House By Jackie Koszczuk, CQ Staff Writer The House is set to dismiss former GOP Rep. Robert K. Dornan's challenge to election results that forced him to give up his California seat to Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, ending an acrimonious 13-month battle that many Republican leaders believe has hurt the party with Hispanic voters nationwide. Sanchez took the seat from six-term incumbent Dornan in November 1996 by just 984 votes. Dornan claimed the election was stolen through rampant illegal voting by non-citizens. Acting on a recommendation from a contested-election task force, the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 4 voted 8 to 1 to drop the investigation of Dornan's claims. The full House is likely to accept that verdict when the resolution is introduced sometime the week of Feb. 9. Task force Chairman Vernon J. Ehlers, R-Mich., said investigators had found concrete evidence of 748 illegal votes by non-citizens, not enough to throw Sanchez's victory into doubt. He and other Republicans said the results nonetheless show that Dornan's challenge was not frivolous and that the GOP was not unfairly targeting Hispanic voters. "The fact that we ended up with 748 illegal votes makes it clear his allegations had merit," Ehlers said. Democrats have characterized the probe as a witch hunt, charging that Republicans sought to unfairly single out and intimidate Hispanic voters. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the lone Democrat on the task force, said of the panel's recommendation, "It's never too late to do the right thing." Sanchez celebrated surrounded by House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., and cheering Democratic lawmakers and staff at a rally held just after the task force's decision. "I feel great," Sanchez said. "When you stand up and you fight for something and you know that you're right, justice can prevail." Gephardt said: "Loretta won this election fair and square. There's never been a doubt in my mind." Not Going Quietly Dornan, who was present with his wife and daughter for the committee's decision, was as outspoken as ever. He asserted that he won the election, but that the panel was unable to prove it because its investigators were stonewalled by Sanchez, by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and by Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, a group that helped register Latinos in California but which was found by committee investigators to have registered large numbers of non-citizens. "I won on election night," Dornan said. "In her heart of hearts, Loretta Sanchez knows that." Dornan vowed he would stay active in politics, and he hinted that he might run for the Senate against California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose term expires this year. He also intimated that either he or his son, Mark Dornan, would challenge Sanchez again this year. "There will be a Dornan running for the 46th District," he said, but he asserted that he and his family had not decided which one of them it would be. Dornan's aggressive personal style and the intensity with which he argued that he had been wronged eventually hurt his case. After he got into a heated argument about the matter with Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., on the House floor in September, the House voted to strip him of his former member's floor privileges. In explaining how the task force reached its conclusion, Ehlers said the panel began with a pool of 7,841 suspicious votes, culled from a comparison of California voting records with INS records. That number was whittled down as investigators weeded out individuals who either did not vote or who proved to be qualified to vote after all. Eventually, Ehlers said, 624 illegal, non-citizen voters were identified, and they were added to the 124 voters that California officials had disqualified because of improperly delivered absentee ballots. The continuing investigation had become politically treacherous for Republicans. Democrats kept up the pressure by introducing multiple resolutions on the House floor calling for an end to the probe. And they seized on the issue to court Hispanic voters, who are being avidly wooed by both parties out of deference to their growing electoral strength.
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#5. To: hondo68 (#3)
She stole B-1 Bob Dornan's seat with fraudulent voting (guest voters).
#19. To: Skip Intro (#5)
She stole B-1 Bob Dornan's seat with fraudulent voting (guest voters).
#20. To: no gnu taxes (#19)
It hardly mattered.
#22. To: Skip Intro (#20)
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