Yesterday, Obama took a little chunk off of his State of the Union address to remind both Republicans and Democrats that the DREAM Act is still alive and that he has not given up on it. The International Business Times released an article today that explained why the bill is not completely dead.
Latinos and other immigrants won't forget how the Republicans and a couple of Democrats denied the DREAM Act at the Senate.
Every one knows that the immigrant and immigrant descent population will not decrease, and if anything it will only increase. Many people are trying to avoid this issue and hope that everyone will soon forget about it, but two years can pass very quickly and this topic will eventually spring up again.
Are the detractors unconcerned about the politics of this if the potential beneficiaries of the bill don't have a vote at the moment?
ReplyDeleteI think that most of the detractors are aware of that. After all, with the re-election system in the Senate, although there are elections every two years, only a third of them go through the process. That means that those who just survived an election don't have to worry about it until their sixth year.
ReplyDeleteThis provides some sort of inconsistency since Senators from different areas are on the spotlight only at certain times. This allow them to avoid the issue, since the possible beneficiaries couldn't vote right away even if the bill was passed due to the two-year waiting policy (stated in the most recent draft of the bill).