Next Congress unlikely to pass DREAM Act, Republicans say

These next two years will be difficult for immigration reform, but there is always a chance. And another election. - - Donna Poisl

By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer

Congressional Republicans are pronouncing President Obama's proposal that the next Congress overhaul the country's immigration laws as dead before arrival.

In his year-end news conference Wednesday, Obama said his biggest regret about the recent lame-duck session of Congress was the defeat of the DREAM Act, a measure that offered a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
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