The U.S. Senate failed Saturday morning to halt debate and move to a vote on the DREAM Act, which would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants who entered the country as children.
Supporters could not rally the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, which would conclude debate on the matter so it could proceed to a vote for or against passage. The vote on the cloture motion was 55-41.
Read CNN's coverage of the DREAM Act debate
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seal the border and make it "illegal" to work here without a visa or being a citizen. Treble the on employers annually until they get the message.. This would create decent wages for Americans and eliminate the slave wages paid to illegals and thus the incentive for them to be productive citizens and build their dreams in their country of origin!
Viva La Raza!! Just don't forget to grab a sack of smoke on your way through the tunnel. F#*k the racist haters on here nobody is a native american...except the Native Americans. Your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free. I didn't see anything about a green card.
susan and steve get a room or at least exchange numbers!
Since when anyone gave a fu~k about what a mexican wants america was doing fine until they came the whiteman dont want you and the blackman dont need you so beat it as michael jackson would say or your gonna see what racism is all about even white and black dont see eye to eye our hate is deep rooted mexicans you have no history
Breaking the law is STILL breaking the law all are welcome in the US but illegal imigration to our country should not be rewarded on any level for any man woman or CHILD!
California dreams: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/rural-280355-areas-various.html
Susan, following your logic we need to issue free of charge pharmacist license to drug dealers, who more than couple of years on street selling drugs..Laws and Equal Rights and Opportunities are The foundation of this country.
I dream of all of the illegals going back to their own countries now. Maybe they can use the education that we've given them to remake their own countries into nice places instead of continuing to break our laws and disrespecting us Americans.
please, I'm tired of the polictics of "who is going to pick the lettuce". They come here not for jobs or to better themselves, they come in waves of sacraficfe in a calculated move to increase their numbers and to anchor their next generation. They know this to be true as welj as Americans know this to bd true!
Thank God the Dream Act failed. Now, let's elect some people that will really enforce our current immigration laws. The illegals must go. There will not be an amnesty! This country has no room for those who break into it and DEMAND a friggin thing. Imagine, some one breaks into your house, trashes all your stuff, and demands that you make him or her a part of your family. Not where I come from. Let's tighten the screws on those bumble-f–ks in D.C. and get them to clean this mess up. Afterall, they did create it. Then, we can get back to the serious business of being the greatest nation in human history.
Vato, I've been hanging drywall since I was 17 years old. I'm now 57. Don't tell me squat.
Whatever the law, your government simply does not have the ability to stop illegal immigration. Our borders zig-zag over thousands of miles. There is simply no way to secure them.
heavily fine employers, no welfare, and deny housing lease to illegals!
Leon, sounds good in theory. But as long as there are greedy people, you will have illegal workers. Maybe if we outlaw greed?
It's about time Washington got something right. ILLEGAL is still breaking the law. Your parents knew what they were doing was wrong and I refuse to feel sorry for the children. What about AMERICAN children who do without healthcare and federal and state grants to go to college because our government is broke? If you want to be a U.S. citizen, go back to your original country and do it right, or better yet just don't come back. The law makers in this country need to worry about the problems of the LEGAL citizens and send everyone else back to where they came from.