DREAM Act Immigration Bill Delayed in the Senate

This bill is the absolutely WRONG WAY to grant citizenship to illegal aliens. There does need to be a way for the children who have been here for an extended period of time to become citizens, but this is not the solution. Our first priority is to secure the borders and STOP the flow of ILLEGALS into this country. Until that is done there is no advantage to granting citizenship to those who have lived off the largess of the hardworking American taxpayer. Granting citizenship should NOT be a blanket order. It's long past the time for the politicians to begin doing the jobs for which they were elected -- secure the borders, protect our sovereignty, maintain the infrastructure, balance the budget, and ELIMINATE the corruption that is so rife in DC.

No way Jose! Thank god it did not passed.

Thank God it did not passed. I'm totally against this bill. Mexican kids and central american kids should give it up. It's time that this bill is dead.NO MORE DREAM ACT!

It is a disgrace that the Dream Act has not been passed. Punishing children who had no independent action in coming to the US. Punish the parents, not the kids.

The ONLY reason they want this passed ASAP is because after this lame duck Reb will take the house. All the “dreamers” will vote Obama 2012 if it passes before the end of the year in addition to all the American morons who think Obama is “cleaning up Bush’s mess”. Once they are amnestied the democrats will be in power forever. Well, at least until China conquerors us anyhow. Whatever happened to the AMERICAN dream? Work hard, get ahead? IMPEACH OBAMA, PELSOSI and REID NOW!

Does anyone in Congress remember when they marched in our streets waving "their" flag of Mexico?

Why can't the federal govt keep a promise, or at least title a bill honestly. The dream act is amesty and will cause our boarders to be flooded once again. Give the illegals anything and they flood us. Do not give them anything and they will self deport. We may need workers but illegal workers are not the answer. The feds will screw up a wet dream - Voter imposed term limits will help - 2 terms and out.

Until the border is secure the American people will not go for any more giveaway bills.

The American taxpayer has already given these "Kids" (up to the age of 30!) a grade and high school education, free lunches, and medical care. That is a lot of charity. Now these gimmie, gimmie, gimmie more kids want the American taxpayer to subsidize their education, and give them preferential immigration treatment, and allow them to sponsor in their lawbreaking parents! There is a reason almost all Americans are against it. No one in America is above the law. No one.

The young people the Dream Act is designed to help did not knowingly commit a crime. They were children when their families came here. They are seeking only what all children want as they grow up: to gain an education and career, build stable adult lives and give back to the communities they call home. The law is no easy out for them, since it would impose up to a 10-year period of provisional residency, during which they would be denied many federal benefits available to citizens. The proposed law wouldn't allow them to cut the line. It would allow them to join it — at the back. Pass the Dream Act. CONSIDER Juan Orjuela, age 19. He grew up in Paterson, Haledon and Lodi, and graduated in the top 15 percent of his class at Lodi High School. He's now an honors student at Bergen Community College. And he doesn't know what comes next, because he is an undocumented immigrant. His parents brought him here from Colombia when he was 3 years old. Without citizenship, he couldn't claim the full state scholarship he earned to attend BCC, likely can't afford a four-year degree and is at a loss as to how to succeed in this country without one, Staff Writer Patricia Alex reported. Some 500,000 people living in the United States today will find themselves in a similar situation, because they were brought here without documentation as children. As they grow up, they are often unable to continue their studies and are stuck in dead-end, low-paying jobs. What a waste. Luckily, Congress holds the solution, in the form of the Dream Act, which would provide a path to legal citizenship for anyone brought here under the age of 16 who has lived in the United States for at least five years and attends college or joins the military. It is a reasonable and humane measure that has passed the House of Representatives, but was tabled by the Senate on Thursday. Critics of the Dream Act often respond to stories like Orjuela's by offering other tales of immigrant woe: the families who wait years and follow the nation's tangle of immigration laws before settling here legally. It's not fair, they say, to allow anyone to cut the line. To be sure, immigration policy in the United States is in dire need of an overhaul. The path to legal citizenship is strewn with out-of-date quotas and administrative barriers — among the reasons why so many immigrants are undocumented. And the notion of allowing scofflaws a path to legitimacy while denying that for the straight-and-narrow is abhorrent. But we're not talking about scofflaws. And two wrongs don't make a right. The young people the Dream Act is designed to help did not knowingly commit a crime. They were children when their families came here. They are seeking only what all children want as they grow up: to gain an education and career, build stable adult lives and give back to the communities they call home. The law is no easy out for them, since it would impose up to a 10-year period of provisional residency, during which they would be denied many federal benefits available to citizens. The proposed law wouldn't allow them to cut the line. It would allow them to join it — at the back. Pass the Dream Act.