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Posted on 02-18-2011
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DREAM Act: “We will give a good fight”

Maribel Hastings

WASHINGTON, DC - At the end of the last Congress's legislative session, President Barack Obama said his biggest legislative frustration was the failure of the DREAM Act to legalize undocumented youth. Earlier this year he said the U.S. should not deport these young people but to take advantage of their talent to benefit the nation.

Now the dreamers are ready to ask Congress and the Obama Administration for concrete actions, and plan to hold a national congress in Memphis, Tennessee from March 4 to 6 waiting to emerge more organized and draw a plan of action to be felt in the coming months.

Gaby Pacheco, an activist of the organization United We Dream assured to America's Voice that after the failure to approve the DREAM Act in December youth have been regrouping and refining the requests they want to make and the best strategy to achieve them.

"We hope to bring together between 150 and 200 Dreamers of about 30 U.S. states with the intention to re-motivate them and integrate teams for the coming campaign," added Carlos Saavedra, national coordinator of United We Dream.

"We have not made a silence. Rather we have been gathering information. For the past two weeks we have been meeting with senators and congressmen taking the temperature of Congress. We have been discussing what happened (in December), renewing the energy of the people, and taking steps to develop a plan for this year and next," said Pacheco.

In December 2010, the House, then under Democratic control, passed a draft version of the DREAM Act But the bill died in the Senate by failing to gather the 60 votes required for their approval. Five Democrats senators and 36 Republicans killed the bill seeking to provide a path to ...

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