Dick Durbin modifies DREAM Act; calls still needed

Posted Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:17 am
From this:
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, trying to win support to pass his proposal to give legal status to illegal aliens who go to college or join the military [the DREAM Act], said yesterday he has dropped from his plan a mandate for in-state tuition rates and is promising to impose an age limit to cut the number of people who would be eligible...

...He has agreed to impose an age ceiling of 30 to limit the pool of eligibility, answering critics who said it was too open, and he is considering changes to confidentiality rules governing applications...

..."I would be opposed to it and will work against it," said Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican.

Even Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was one of the most vocal Republican champions of the president's immigration bill, was noncommittal yesterday...
Sen. John Cornyn - who voted for it in conference - says it won't survive cloture. However, calls are still needed to help avoid "changes of heart." There's a list of those who need phone calls here.

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Comments

Tanstaafl (not verified)

Thu, 09/20/2007 - 19:24

Dick Durbin, is not an equal opportunity boot licker. He licks Islamist boots, and Latino boots. His own countrymen however are "Nazis" whose boots he will not lick. I smell _discrimination_!

llamajockey (not verified)

Fri, 09/21/2007 - 07:40

The DNC is shitting their pants. If we can stuff this vote on the DREAM act. Then the Latino Radicals are going to go apeshit. The Democrats will have tried three times to have appeased them and failed miserably. It will be a hot time on the streets of Denver next summer. Not only that most likely there will be sympathy protests if not riots in LA as well.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Fri, 09/21/2007 - 18:56

Dick Durbin must be getting boys for mexico and bin laden. after all we all know what the boys in washington like? the next move will be the so called government starting a jihad here to keep us all in line for the camp system.

jlo (not verified)

Mon, 09/24/2007 - 15:03

Yes, we must fight this attempt to aid young aliens who want to be college educated, productive Americans! If these lousy infiltrators wanted to be American, they should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps like us and been born here!

expat (not verified)

Tue, 09/25/2007 - 13:47

People like the above do not see the US as a real country(like Mexico, for example) with its own history and traditions but as a welfare institution for the benefit of the Third World masses(along with being an imperialist exploiter, of course). Anyway, with the Chinese holding 1.3 trillion dollars, our absurdly large trade deficit, a negative savings rate, the burst of the housing bubble and the collapsing dollar a lot of dreams will soon be coming to an end. Mexicans would be well advised to buy a plane ticket to Spain. I don't think even a visa is necessary.

Ann Donohoe (not verified)

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 14:48

Dream Act = Dick Durbin can take his dream act and leave the country in my personal opinion - not soon enough. We need to take care of legal American citizens. Do NOT give illegal aliens anything, if they want to receive anything then go back and come into our country the legal way. We are not taking care of our own senior citizen or especially our military who come home in desperate need of help but it is not there for them. Shame on us and we have senators that want to spend, spend, spend on illegal aliens. Help Americans first and foremost.