All we have asked for--and many of us on a bipartisan basis--is to
call up the Dream Act for a vote in the U.S. Senate, to give these
young people a chance of the protection of law so they can continue in
this country. Some Republicans have said we need to sit down and talk about border
security. I said I would be happy to do that. When I was part of the
Gang of 8, we came up with comprehensive immigration reform, and we had
an extensive border security plan. Some of the Republican Senators who
offered it told me later: We went overboard and you accepted it. We
did. We are serious about border security. That is not an issue, but
for the senior Senator from Texas, that is not good enough. I handed him a sheet of paper last week, and I have a copy of it
right here, showing him the proposals we are making on border security. I pointed out to him that 12 of the proposals I handed to him were
proposals from his own bill for border security. We are serious about
this. This is a genuine effort to give border security provisions the
enactment of law along with the Dream Act. So what we hear is that the senior Senator from Texas came to the
floor and said: Well, they are just not negotiating in good faith. Well, I have handed him this provision, this proposal.
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