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...then, they're betting, Congress will have passed what's known as the DREAM Act - Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors - co-sponsored in the Senate by Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republicans Richard Lugar of Indiana and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, and in the House by Repubican Diaz-Balart and Democrats Howard Berman and Lucille Roybal of California. The measure would allow kids like Juan and Alex to stay in the U.S. and receive residency once they receive a college degree or serve two years in the military. It would also give those undocumented youths access...
Critics call the DREAM Act - which was part of President Bush's failed immigration reform package and is now a stand-alone bill - just another amnesty reward for lawbreaking. But backers say it's a sensible response to a growing national dilemma - and one that rewards "the cream of the crop, the kids who are genuine college material and those who really want to contribute to American society," says Mary Gundrum, FIAC's managing attorney for immigration...
...Alex, Congress so far is balking at even addressing the private legislation drafted for them. But the case's sudden and remarkable high profile - even CNN immigration grouch Lou Dobbs suggested this week that an exception might be in order for the brothers - has raised hopes that the DREAM Act could get a vote in both chambers as early as this fall. "This is really allowing the movement to crystallize," says Jose Luis Marantes, youth organizer for the Florida Immigrant Coalition who is working alongside Juan's friends in Washington this week. Diaz-Balart spokesperson Ana Carbonell concurred...
...spilled from Oaxaca into neighboring Mexican states. In early July, explosions shook installations of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the national oil company, in the state of Guanajuato, just north of this region. At first the government said the cause was poor maintenance but later admitted it was a terrorist act when the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR) - The Popular Revolutionary Army - took responsibility for the incidents and demanded the release of two comrades taken into custody by the army in Oaxaca. The EPR espouses radical Marxist redistribution of wealth and the rights of indigenous peoples; it bases itself in the mountains...
...Libya's boldest move to repair relations with the West came in 2003, when it announced the scrapping of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs - an act the U.S., Britain, and other Western governments had demanded as prerequisite for renewing relations with Tripoli. Bilateral contacts have increased since, including partnerships between Western and Libyan intelligence services that Gaddafi and European officials credit for thwarting terror attacks on both sides of the Mediterranean. Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair traveled to Tripoli in May to hail Libya's "completely transformed" behavior, and predicted that the flourishing security and defense relationship...