December 21, 2010

Obama’s political arm vows to revive DREAM Act amnesty

Posted by D.A. King at 11:57 am - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

Obama’s political arm vows to revive DREAM Act

President Obama’s political arm vowed to revive the DREAM Act on Monday after the Senate jettisoned the issue in a weekend vote.

Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America (OFA), the president’s political arm within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), sought to reassure liberal and Hispanic voters that they would look to pass the immigration bill again in the future.

“This fight isn’t over — and when it comes up in the next Congress, we need to be on the record saying that Republicans can’t hold reform hostage to political games,” Stewart wrote.

The Senate failed to end debate on the DREAM Act, which provides conditional pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, in a Saturday vote. 55 senators voted to end debate, short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster. .. HERE