News Update - October 24, 2007DREAM Act Being Voted On In The Senate TodayAfter re-introduction by Senator Durbin (D-IL) on October 18th as a stand-alone bill following its rejection as part of the Department of Defense appropriations measure in September, the DREAM Act will be voted on today in the Senate in a cloture vote which will require 60 votes for passage. Today's action will largely determine the fate of the DREAM ACT for this year if it fails. Proponents and opponents of the measure have been active in contacting senatorial offices. If passed, the measure must still be taken up and passed in the House of Representatives before it can be sent to the President.
† The author is a 26+ year practitioner of immigration law based in New York City. He was awarded the Sidney A. Levine prize for best legal writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1977 and has written extensively on immigration over the past years for the ethnic newspapers, World Journal, Sing Tao, Pakistan Calling, Muhasha and OCS. He has testified as an expert on immigration in civil court proceedings and was recognized by the Taiwan government in 1985 for his work protecting human rights. His article, "The Bush Temporary Worker Proposal and Comparative Pending Legislation: an Analysis" was Interpreter Releases' cover display article at the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual conference in 2004, and his victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression nationwide, Firstland International v. INS, successfully challenged INS' policy of over 40 years of revoking approved immigrant visa petitions under a nebulous standard of proof. Its value as precedent, however, was short-lived as it was specifically targeted by the Administration in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004. ‡ This article © 2007 Alan Lee, Esq.
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