... officials on her behalf. Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, R-Miami, who wrote letters to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on their behalf, planned to meet with Pelaez and her sister on Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, asked the sisters to stop by his office, too.
...Nelson spoke to Napolitano on the phone Monday night, and the Homeland Security chief pledged to...
... Becerra (D-CA)
Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-FL)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
The other members include:
Jared Polis (D-CO)
Joe Baca (D-CA)
Albio Sires (D-NJ).
Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX)
Michael Grimm (R-NY)
Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR)
David Rivera (R-FL)
Lucille Roybal Allard (D-CA)
Brad Sherman (D-CA)
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Devin Dwyer of ABC News offers "Defying Cops and Klan, Immigrants Trek 1,500 Miles to Washington" [1]. It promotes the anti-American DREAM Act, but (as with almost all the other articles about that bill) fails to note that the bill would allow illegal aliens to take college educations away from U.S. citizens. Under the bill that Devin Dwyer is promoting, some eligible U.S. citizens would be...
... Florida politicians including Ileana Ros Lehtinen) are among several leaders holding separate news conferences in Miami on Thursday to draw further attention to the issue. Others include the head of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, who will be accompanied by Edwidge Danticat, a celebrated Haitian author and winner of a MacArthur Fellow "genius" grant. Twenty-six refugee agencies also sent...
... Conyers, Devin Nunes, Jared Polis, Ileana Ros Lehtinen, and Lucille Roybal Allard.
The Senate version is S.729 from Dick Durbin, currently co-sponsored by Richard Lugar, Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, Joe Lieberman, Mel Martinez, and Harry Reid.
Those quoted at the description link above in support of the bill include Harry Reid, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the National Council...