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Inhofe Praises Failure of DREAM Act
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October 24, 2007 - WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made the following
statement praising today’s failure of the Senate Democrats’
most recent amnesty legislation, the DREAM Act (S.2205).
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Though Americans across the political
spectrum weighed in on this issue during debate on the
immigration bill in June, Senate Democrats once again overlooked
the will of the people and attempted to push through a path to
amnesty for illegal immigrants.
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“This bill undermines the rule of law by
expediting the path to citizenship for some of the illegal
immigrants in our country. As I’ve said before, any shortcut
provided to illegal immigrants is simply an injustice to those
immigrants who have gone about the citizenship process legally.
Furthermore, the attempts by some on the other side of the
aisle to cloak this legislation as a ‘humanitarian gesture’
were simply disingenuous.”
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Coburn Commends Senate’s
Rejection of DREAM Act
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“Granting amnesty and creating
financial incentives – which the DREAM Act proposed doing – is
not the right fix for America’s immigration problems.”
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October 24, 2007
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.
(R-OK) released the following statement today concerning the
Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
The Senate voted 52-44 to reject the DREAM Act, which needed 60
votes to proceed for consideration. Dr. Coburn voted against the
DREAM Act.
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“Granting amnesty and creating
financial incentives – which the DREAM Act proposed doing – is
not the right fix for America’s immigration problems,” Dr.
Coburn said. “Our country certainly thrives from legal
immigration and we should welcome with open arms those who come to
this country legally. I sympathize with the children who were
brought to the United States illegally through no fault of their
own and I believe we should help these individuals realize their
dreams of higher education. However, the DREAM Act is not the
right answer to solve this problem. Furthermore, this bill would
have been extremely costly. At a time when our national debt
stands at more than $9 trillion, it would be fiscally
irresponsible to pass this legislation.”
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In addition to immediately putting more than
1 million illegal aliens on a path to citizenship, the DREAM Act
allows illegal immigrants to qualify for federal student loans and
in-state tuition rates at public universities, even when these
benefit are not currently offered to all citizens and permanent
resident students in the United States. The bill also allows those
individuals granted amnesty to immigrate their family members,
including adult siblings and the parents who illegally brought or
sent them to the United States. Furthermore, the act does not
contain an initial application filing deadline, allowing DREAM Act
amnesty applications to be filed with the Department of Homeland
Security for decades to come.
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“The American people have lost faith
in Congress because of the federal government’s inability to
reform our immigration system. We cannot have a government that
guarantees freedom, without a government that guarantees the rule
of law. Granting amnesty to illegal immigrants, without properly
securing our borders and enforcing existing law, is a clear
violation of our rule of law. It is important when considering
immigration reform we first work to secure our borders and enforce
existing immigration laws. Then, and only then, can we move
forward with a compassionate solution as a unified and secure
nation,” Dr. Coburn said.
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