[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 161 (Wednesday, December 8, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               DREAM ACT

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, imagine you wake up one morning to discover 
that the U.S. Government will be sending you under duress to Guatemala 
or Mexico or the Ukraine. You don't speak the language; you have never 
visited. These places are as foreign as foreign can be, but you are 
being deported because of the crime of a parent.
  That's inhumane. It's also dumb economics. The CBO tells us that the 
DREAM Act, if we pass it, will cut the deficit by $1.4 billion.
  It's dumb for our security. Secretary of Defense Gates says that 
passing the DREAM Act would be to the advantage of military readiness 
and recruiting.
  We can do these things. We can fix these things. We can create a more 
humane, secure, and economically prosperous Nation by passing the DREAM 
Act today.

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