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Senate Kills DREAM Act

Posted on | December 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

Encouraging news everywhere nowadays:

The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for immigration activists.
The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year and shutting the door on what perhaps was the last chance for pro-immigration reform legislation until at least the 2012 election.

Via Memeorandum.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin says five Democrats voted no: Jon Tester (Montana), Max Baucus (Montana), Kay Hagan (North Carolina), Ben Nelson (Nebraska) and Mark Pryor (Arkansas).

Because Democrats hate immigrants!

UPDATE II: Looks like Joe Manchin of West Virginia also voted no.

Category: Immigration, Senate

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6 Responses to “Senate Kills DREAM Act”

  1. Joanie Scott
    December 18th, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

    I’m not so sure the DREAM Act is really dead after all. It’s been hidden inside another bill, HR 5281, which Harry Reid just referred to committee on 12/16/2010.

    http://is.gd/iYrkk

    Is that what this looks like to you?