DREAM Act Will Cost Over $6 Billion Per Year

Republican leaders are venting frustration after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) placed a new version of the controversial Dream Act on the legislative calendar without an official hearing to discuss the bill.  Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Friday predicted a Senate vote on the DREAM Act will be held this week.  "Senator Reid is going to call it," Durbin said shortly after the chamber adjourned at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Reid has introduced four different versions of the DREAM Act, which would grant citizenship to young illegal immigrants who attend college or the military, without legislative review.

"This unusual approach creates a chaotic situation, one that makes it more difficult for the public and their representatives, as well as the press, to review this deeply controversial measure," Sessions said in a statement.

A Senate source says that the latest version of the DREAM Act would lower the eligibility age limit for illegal immigrants from 35 to 30. In addition, the new proposal says that illegal aliens who had committed marriage or voter fraud would be ineligible.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimates that approximately 1 million illegal immigrants will eventually enroll in public institutions as a result of the DREAM Act, and each student will receive nearly $6,000 in tuition subsidy each year from taxpayers. The CIS suggests that taxpayers will spend at least $6.2 billion annually to fund these students.

Why should hard working taxpaying Americans pay tuition for illegal aliens?  We have an unemployment rate of 9.8% and a deficit that is astronomical.  Still Reid and the socialist Democrats want to pass this bill to give over $6 billion a year to illegal aliens.

Reid is trying every deceiving dirty trick he can to get this illegal alien bill passed in the Senate.  This is just another vote buying scheme.

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