| Reid, Pelosi Prepare for Lame-Duck Votes on DREAM Act  In a statement last Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised a vote on the DREAM Act during the lame-duck session. “I will move the DREAM Act as a standalone bill in the lame duck,” Reid wrote on his Twitter account. “It’s good for the economy & Pentagon says good for [national] security.” (Id.) Reid’s promise came the day after Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairwoman, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tentatively set a vote on the DREAM Act for as soon as November 29th. Later that day, President Obama also reaffirmed his commitment to seeing an amnesty bill passed during the lame-duck session. While meeting with members of the CHC he remarked that he wants the DREAM Act passed during lame-duck as a “down payment” for further amnesty bills.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . California Supreme Court Upholds In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens  Last Monday, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided to uphold a California law that makes illegal aliens eligible for in-state tuition at California universities and community colleges. The California legislature enacted the statute making illegal aliens who have completed three years of high school in California eligible for in-state tuition in 2002. Shortly thereafter, numerous American citizens who paid nonresident tuition rates at California schools sued the California University system with the assistance of FAIR and its legal arm, the Immigration Reform Law Institute on the grounds that the California statute violated federal laws.
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