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An unfinished DREAM

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

AN UNFINISHED DREAM WASHINGTON ? Today, the U.S. Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation that, had it been passed, would have provided undocumented young women and men who were brought to the U.S. as young children with a pathway to U.S. citizenship if they attend college or perform military service. Below is a statement from Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center: ?Today, a few Senate Republicans and Democrats effectively denied thousands of children the American Dream. These undocumented young people have grown up here. They have worked hard and excelled in school. They want only to serve their adopted country. ?This legislation failed not because of policy, but because of politics...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 18, 2010 (boomark / email).