Post on Politico.com regarding the DREAM ACT

The last part of this article is clearly against the DREAM ACT, saying it is amnesty. Perhaps the writer doesn't know the details of the amendment.

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Senate Poised to Debate DREAM Act This Week
Politico.com
September 18, 2007

Numerous Capitol Hill sources are reporting that the Senate will likely consider the DREAM Act of 2007 as an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill for FY2008 (H.R. 1585). The DREAM Act, short for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, grants amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the U.S. before the age of 16 and have either (1) enrolled in primary or secondary school or (2) received a high school degree or been admitted to an institution of higher education. It also provides that illegal aliens who have entered the U.S. before the age of 16 and have completed two years of college or finished two years in the uniformed services are eligible to be put on a path to citizenship. Finally, the DREAM Act allows states to offer illegal aliens in-state tuition at state colleges and universities while charging more to U.S. citizens who are not state residents.

The DREAM Act was originally introduced in March by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). In July, Senator Durbin took the bill's language and filed it as an amendment to the DOD Authorization bill, but it was never considered because the DOD Authorization bill was removed from the legislative calendar. The amendment, which has sixteen co-sponsors, has worried some lawmakers that the DOD authorization bill will turn into another fever-pitch battle on immigration.

Political observers suggest that this latest turn in the immigration debate is proof that amnesty supporters are now trying to do piecemeal what they could not accomplish this summer with the massive Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill (S.1639). In addition to movement on the DREAM Act, there is already talk on Capitol Hill that the AgJOBS legislation—which grants amnesty to at least 1.5 million illegal alien farm workers plus their families—will be offered as an amendment to the Farm Bill when the Senate takes it up later this month. Last Wednesday, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) held a press conference alerting the Capitol press corps to the growing possibility that the DREAM Act and AgJOBS would be resurrected. Calling the bills "amnesty," he said, "We may be headed for another immigration battle..."


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