The Politics of Voting Down DREAM
Just hours before the Senate voted on Sunday to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Democrats lost a major piece of legislation: the DREAM Act, which failed to overcome the threat of a Republican filibuster. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would have provided a path to legal citizenship for some illegal immigrants who had arrived in the U.S. as minors but went on to graduate from U.S. colleges or serve in the military. Democrats pushed the bill as a modest alternative to the sweeping immigration reform suggested by many liberal activists. Here is what pundits are saying about the DREAM Act's failure and what it means.
- Obama's Immigration Strategy 'in Ruins' The president told "skeptical supporters," The
