{"id":7792,"date":"2010-11-17T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2010-11-17T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:37:44","slug":"congressional-hispanic-caucus-pushing-for-lame-duck-dream-act-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7792\/congressional-hispanic-caucus-pushing-for-lame-duck-dream-act-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Hispanic Caucus Pushing for Lame Duck DREAM Act Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/816-nancy-pelosis-plan-to-kill-her-own-caucus\" target=\"_blank\">CFIF recently noted<\/a>, the Democrats in Congress are committed to passing more controversial legislation before their chokehold on the legislative process eases in January.\u00a0 Reporting from the <em>San Antonio Express-News<\/em> confirms that members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are personally lobbying President Barack Obama to put the weight of his slight frame behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/politics\/Hispanic_lawmakers_seek_DREAM_Act_vote_108577549.html?showFullArticle=y\" target=\"_blank\">a vote on the DREAM Act during the lame duck session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in the <em>Express-News<\/em> article, there are 800,000 reasons to do so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The DREAM Act, or Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, would require the affected youths to enter the armed forces or attend college for two years, clear a background check and have no criminal records to be eligible for citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 800,000 teens and young adults would be eligible, according to immigration rights groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With one of those immigration rights groups estimating an <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamact.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual addition of 65,000 potential beneficiaries<\/a> under the DREAM Act, the only thing standing in the way of a multi-generational Latino dependency on the Democratic Party is a GOP-led filibuster in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CFIF recently noted, the Democrats in Congress are committed to passing more controversial legislation before their chokehold on the legislative process eases in January.\u00a0 Reporting from the San Antonio Express-News confirms that members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are personally lobbying President Barack Obama to put the weight of his slight frame behind a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,2097,1843,514,2075],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congressional-hispanic-caucus","tag-dream-act","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-lame-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7793,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}