Photo: Douglas McGrayMr. McGray, the most you can do for DREAM ACT students is to call the Senators (or their staff) that you know and remind them that the DREAM ACT is good for the U.S.
The DREAM ACT needs 60 Senators to vote yes....
Douglas McGray, at the New America Foundation has written a great essay on the DREAM ACT. Perhaps he heard Durbin's speech yesterday.
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A uniquely American DREAM
With a small act of immigration reform, Congress can help deserving kids.
By Douglas McGray
Los Angeles Times
September 19, 2007
Thoughtful people will disagree about immigration policy -- how many foreigners to let in, for what purpose, and what to do about the 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country. That's why sweeping immigration reform has failed again and again. This fall, Congress should think smaller, and figure out what it can agree on, before another year passes with no progress.
...The DREAM Act has gotten tangled up in the push for comprehensive immigration reform, tacked onto one complicated bill after another. Each one collapsed over more controversial ideas. Now, for the first time, the bill is expected to see a vote separate from sweeping immigration proposals. It is an easy piece of immigration reform, with a fundamentally American solution: an opportunity for good kids to prove themselves and earn their place here.
Douglas McGray is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
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