Undocumented Students Won't Stand a Chance

Filed in archive Latin Issues on October 25, 2007

The "Dream Act", the bill to grant legal status to Illegal immigrants who are high school graduates was defeated yesterday in a test vote in the Senate:

By a vote of 52 to 44, the bill failed to garner the 60 votes needed to proceed to a debate on the Senate floor. The bill, sponsored by Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrant students who completed high school if they either attended college or served in the military for two years. (Source)

I guess we can really forget about any major immigration legislation this year. The House will vote today a health care bill for children, which will leave out illegal immigrants, of course.

Latina Lista summarized what we are all thinking:

We must ask ourselves in what direction is this country going and is it a direction we can be proud of?

There's no doubt, the answer is no.