Boston Globe
Harvard University President Drew Faust and an immigrant student arrested in June for being in the United States illegally from Mexico joined forces in Washington this afternoon to urge the Senate to let undocumented students like him apply for legal residency.
The Dream Act would create a path to legal residency for youths who arrived before they turned 16, have lived here for five consecutive years, and are of good moral character, meaning that they have no criminal record. To qualify, the youths must graduate from high school or obtain a GED, complete two years of college or in the military, and be under 35 years old.
Opponents of the Dream Act today said the measure would reward immigrant families who broke the law, while thousands of others are waiting in line to come to the United States legally. Opponents of the legislation accused Reid of pushing the measure to curry political favor among voters in his home state of Nevada, where he is locked in a tough reelection battle. About 19 percent of Nevada's population is foreign-born and a quarter is Latino, according to the US Census.
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