Education Secretary Arne Duncan is pushing lawmakers to pass during?Congress's lame-duck session the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, before the new year brings with it a new, more conservative?legislative body. The act in question would make legal residency a possibility for those immigrants who came, illegally, to the U.S. before they were sixteen years old and who either serve in the military or attend college for at least two years. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his House counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, have expressed desire to bring the bill to the floor during the lame-duck session.
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow