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Montana Democrat Jon Tester voted against the DREAM Act last Saturday. While he was not alone, he did manage to upset one person who actually mattered a lot to Tester's being elected - Markos Moulitsas at the Daily Kos, one of the web's most popular blogs. Moulitsas is extremely influential with young liberals and he was able to raise a significant amount of dollars for the Tester campaign in 2006. Perhaps Tester thought there would be no consequences to voting no on DREAM, but Kos is furious and I wouldn't be surprised if he uses the site to promote a primary opponent for Tester.

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12-22-2010, 11:16 AM

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"AV, what have the Dems done for you anyway before you start talking about me complaining."

Well... I support the cause but I don't need either the dems nor the cans help!!
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12-22-2010, 11:23 AM

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I rewrite my suggestion...
My suggestion is to hold the 10 years ban for one year, for those who are here without paper they can go back to thier country and come back in the US after pay a penalty but after 2 months, they will not be able to apply for citenzship ever and apply for green card after 10 years of legal status, in other word, a touchback provision.
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12-22-2010, 01:10 PM

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Beppe - if you think admissibility bars are not that important that they can be suspended for a year, why they are in place anyway? The immigration system did function - and probably better - before 1996 when the bars were introduced. If anything the bars only fueled more illegal immigration. My opinion, it's a horrible law, and this provision should be taken out of the INA. I am not for temporary suspentions of stupid provisions; it just shows our inability to think outside the box of current immigration system.

There should also be a provision for those who lived legally in the US for over 5 years not to be subject to immigration quotas. That will fix long immigration line problem once and for all.

Bottom line - we all can come up with decent immigration solutions pretty much on the dime, but the issue is what is politically feasible, and whether it makes sense to ask for more/unexpected or make a pointed argument for a particular group, often without changing the confines of the current immgiration system. Plus, neither you nor me have our own advocacy to push new ideas.

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