Obama Calls for Bipartisan Action on Immigration, Including Passage of 'Dream Act'

TitleObama Calls for Bipartisan Action on Immigration, Including Passage of 'Dream Act'
Publication TypeArticle
Year of Publication2010
AuthorSewall, Michael
Newspaper/MagazineChronicle of Higher Education
Publication Languageeng

http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Calls-for-Bipartisan/66126/

"President Obama strongly urged Congress on Thursday to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including provisions that would expand access to higher education for illegal immigrants.

Although the president did not offer many details or a legislative timeline in a speech at American University, he laid out a broad outline of what he would like to see in immigration legislation. And he specified that he would like it to include the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the Dream Act. That measure would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants attending college who were brought to the United States as children." ...