By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--December 19, 2010
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I understand writers aren’t always in control of headlines, but as the Senate GOP has only 42 votes and DREAM was defeated with 51, it would have been more accurate to say Democrats were the ones to block the DREAM Act, but that would be fair.Undocumented students devastated after GOP blocks DREAM Act
Senate leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in a press conference after the vote that the Republican Party “will pay for this” in 2012 by losing votes in the Hispanic community.Republicans block youth immigration bill
Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight