From AFP:
The US Senate on Saturday blocked a White House-backed bill to offer a path to citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who attend college or enroll in the military.
Lawmakers voted 55-41, largely along party lines, to end debate on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, falling short of the 60 needed to do so and effectively killing the legislation.
Some of President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies sided with most Republicans to defeat the measure, which opponents had charged amounted to amnesty.
Supporters of the bill, a top priority of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said it was wrong to punish people brought to the United States by undocumented parents and emphasized that the legislation included safeguards and set high hurdles to citizenship.
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