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(October 23) Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed to invoke cloture on S. 2205, Assistant Majority Leader Dick DurbinÂ’s (D-Ill.) new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty bill. The cloture vote, for which 60 YES votes are necessary to prevent a filibuster on the measure, is set for Wednesday, October 24. Reid is attempting to bring this nightmarish amnesty bill to the floor under Senate Rule XIV without it ever having been debated in committee.
USA TODAY's Kathy Kiely reports this morning on a surprise move certain to set off another heated immigration debate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late yesterday signaled his plans to hold a showdown vote tomorrow on the DREAM Act.
Kiely says the measure would give children of illegal immigrants who complete two years of post-secondary education or two years of military service a chance to become citizens. It was part of a larger immigration measure that failed earlier this year. Backers, such as Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., say it gives children who were brought here illegally through no fault of their own a chance to stay in the country they consider home.
Opponents, such as Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., say itÂ’s a backdoor amnesty that could grant citizenship to more than 1 million children and young adults now here illegally. |