W.H. continues appeal for DREAM Act

[Tx4obama]

Source: Politico

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday that Congress can’t afford to wait to pass the DREAM Act, even as immigration allies acknowledge there’s little hope of getting the bill done in the lame-duck session.

In his second conference call with reporters in 12 days, Duncan reiterated that the legislation is not an issue of politics or ideology but rather fairness and economic necessity. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for tens of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants who attend college or serve in the military for at least two years. Critics still dismiss the proposal as “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.

“For our young people, for our country, for our country’s economy, we desperately need to pass the DREAM Act,” Duncan said on a call organized by Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. “We have a chance to do it now in the lame-duck session. And I simply don’t think we can afford to wait.”

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Duncan said Obama’s support for the bill has been “unequivocal,” echoing comments he made to reporters Nov. 18 that his boss was willing to “spend political capital” on the effort.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45681.html

[UrbScotty]

1. K&R

Telling that someone chose to unrec this.

[Kali]

2. more than one

because I rec'd it too


:wtf:

[getthefacts]

3. Link to video from the White House

discussing the Dream Act. WOrth seeing for those who have doubts about this legislation

http://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/2010/November/112910_OpenforQuestions.mp4

[Tx4obama]

5. Here's another link

Open for Questions: The DREAM Act with Cecilia Munoz
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/11/29/open-questions-dream-act-with-cecilia-munoz

The other one didn't work for me.

[Tiggeroshii]

4. k&r

[pampango]

6. NYT: If the Dream Act passes, credit must go to those who have fought for it most strenuously...

at greater personal risk and inconvenience than anyone else: the young people whose futures it will decide. Thousands of students, calling themselves “undocumented and unafraid,” have led an admirable campaign of advocacy under the threat of arrest and deportation.

The Dream Act will not fix immigration from the border to the workplace to the future flow of Americans-in-waiting. It’s just a down payment on future reform.

But Republicans won back the House in the recent election, so immigration hard-liners are coming. The Obama administration has the deportation machinery expelling 400,000 people a year. Victorious Republicans have vowed to tear the country apart until they find and expel the last of 11 million undocumented.

The question then becomes, whom don’t we deport? Let’s start with college students and soldiers who didn’t ask to come here without papers, who want to better themselves and serve their country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30tue2.html

[COLGATE4]

7. Way too little. Way too late. nt

[getthefacts]

8. Too little from the Times or the activists?

Could you clarify? Thanks.