Following up on President Obama’s new focus on immigration reform, Senate Democrats are renewing a drive to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would grant a path to citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants who attend college or serve in the military.The legislation, however, has little chance of passing on its own after failing to break a Republican filibuster during last year’s lame duck session in a vote that saw a handful of both Democrats and Republicans cross party lines. Since then the Senate has lost six Democrats and the House has turned Republican, reducing its already low odds of success to near zero.
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