Does anyone know which senators have signed Harry Reid's letter to Obama re: the dream act?

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I have searched both google and DU, and don't find anything on it.

I am speaking with a young Latino, and gave him our Senator's numbers, but would like to know if they have signed the letter.

Anything you can find on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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1. Any information about this letter at all?

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2. Here is a list of sponsors:

http://www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/DREAM/Dream022.htm

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12. Senate sponsors: 36 D, 1 R (Lugar) and 2 I (Sanders and Lieberman).

House sponsors: 123 Democrats, 5 repubs (all from CA or FL).

Not sure if this is the letter in question. It's not just from Reid, but from several Democratic senators, including him.

U.S .Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Majority Leader Harry Reid and 16 of her Senate colleagues yesterday in calling on President Obama to halt deportations of young people who qualify for the DREAM Act and grant those students and young people deferred action on deportation proceedings…The Senators wrote in a letter to President Obama, “We would support a grant of deferred action to all young people who meet the rigorous requirements necessary to be eligible for cancellation of removal or a stay of removal under the DREAM Act. We strongly believe that DREAM Act students should not be removed from the United States.

The letter was signed by Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Mark Begich (D-AK), Jack Reed (D-RI), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Michael Bennet (D-CO), John Kerry (D-MA), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Nelson (D-FL).

http://gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=29343B15-D41F-4DD2-B2FB-8DBBA34F361C

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3. There's a possible link at Reid's site about the letter itself

but the link is screwed up and it won't load.

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4. The only link I saw was from last year. This letter is recent.. in the last few days.

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5. I can't find a thing about it. n/t

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6. Thanks for trying. It is a letter to pressure Obama to pass it by executive order or something.

Just heard it on progressive radio, and can't find anything about it.

This kid is going to put it on his facebook and get all his friends to call Bennet and Udall, so I hope it gains some steam.

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7. What a great kid.

I'll look again in the morning. You'd think Reid would have something up.

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9. Great kid, indeed. I gave him the toll-free DC number, and he called Reid's office to thank him.

I congratulated him on his first political act. ^_^

He's now psyched, and ready to tell them that he wants to go to college, and should be allowed to do so, even though his parents brought him here when he was 7.

Great kid,,,3.8, ready to roar. ^_^

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13. Is this the letter? Here's a link to Gillibrand's office site. She's one of the cosigners.

http://gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=29343B15-D41F-4DD2-B2FB-8DBBA34F361C

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14. Gillibrand! That was the name I couldn't remember. I knew that someone had leaked it....

However, I can't actually find anything about that letter to Obama on her site.

Did you see it?

Maybe it got scrubbed?

Thanks! I'm curious... how did you happen to find her name connected with this? I came across nothing..... :shrug:

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15. It loads up as a big white blank for me.

Maybe it's this dumb ad block.

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8. have you seen this?

It doesn't talk about a letter from Harry Reid, but it does mention the memo that was sent out urging that Napolitano grant deferred action to all 12 million illegal immigrants-

Not a single piece of the anticipated flood of anti-immigrant legislation has passed the 112th congress so far this session. Whatever the reason, the heated anti-immigrant rhetoric, tough guy rhetoric has given way to reason. Last week during the senate Judiciary committee hearing, DHS secretary, Janet Napolitano, disclosed that DHS quietly granted deferred action status to over 900 illegals in 2010. And that number does not include those granted deferred action status for humanitarian reasons. Deferred action status is what DHS grants when it decides not to deport an illegal immigrant. Those who are granted deferred action status get work authorization. There is no statutory basis for granting deferred action status. The DHS secretary grants it in her own discretion where she feels it is humanitarian or in the interests of justice to do so. The best part is deferred action status is not reviewable by the courts. Once it is granted, the lucky recipient can breathe a sigh of relief, and go about the business of earning a living, free from the fear of deportation.

All this of this came out during the questioning of the DHS secretary by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. He has been hot on the trail trying to track down the source of a DHS memo, leaked last February, that suggested granting deferred action status to all 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. No one will own authorship of the memo, but Steve Wonder can see that it was an effort by the spineless Obama administration to grant amnesty, to all illegals by stealth.

from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-

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10. He read this, wants to know more, but the Page Not Found.

He is very interested in what this means... can you help?

thanks!

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11. Hi - I'll try and find

a better link. I read quite a few pages last night, and can only be online for a few minutes this am- (I'll be back tonite though)

A LOT of chatter on 'tea-party' sites about a talk Napolitano gave recently which they claim means that the Administration is putting deportation on the back-burner.

I'm not sure you want links to those sites, but they sure are ticked off about what she said.

I'll see what I can find.

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