Legislative Background on the DREAM Act
Recent Action in Congress
A number of bills have been introduced in recent Congresses to provide a path to U.S. citizenship to for certain children of undocumented immigrants. Most have proposed repealing a provision of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) to enable some unauthorized alien students to become legal permanent residents (LPRs). Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses. In 1995, Senator Richard Durbin (IL-D) introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, and Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-R) introduced the American Dream Act. Both would have repealed Section 505 of IIRIRA, which places restriction on States’…
