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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sen. Durbin goes to bat for children of illegal immigrants

All these years talking about the DREAM Act and this is the first time it has gotten a Senate hearing! - - Donna Poisl

by erin kelly

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), trying to revive the legislation that has been under consideration by Congress for a decade, on Tuesday urged his Senate colleagues to work to pass the Dream Act.

The Dream Act, which would allow some children of illegal immigrants to become legal residents and eventually citizens if they attend college or serve in the U.S. military, has never passed both chambers in the same session.

Durbin presided Tuesday over the first public Senate hearing the bill has ever had.
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