So I introduced the DREAM Act. and I said: If these young people have completed their education. if they have no serious criminal issues. if they are prepared to come forward. serve their country in the military or finish their college education. we will give them a path to citizenship. Fifteen years of waitingI can remember when these galleries were filled with young people. DREAMers. undocumented young people who sat one Saturday morning in their caps and gowns in the gallery. praying that we would pass the DREAM Act and give them a chance to become part of the only country they have ever known. The measure failed on the floor of the Senate. It was a brokenhearted moment for me. facing these young people. many of them in tears. sobbing. not knowing what their lives would lead to.
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