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Dozens of DREAMers join Texas hunger strikes
- 11-24-2010
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By Seth Freed Wessler/Color Lines
As many of us head off to Thanksgiving feasts on Thursday, a growing group of young people in Texas are staging a hunger strike to press Congress to pass the DREAM Act. Meanwhile, Republicans are doing everything they can to stop the bill. Two weeks have passed since a dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio began a hunger strike there. On Tuesday, their protest grew when 40 more students from four other University of Texas campuses joined the strike, reports the Lookout. They say they will not stop until Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has supported the bill in years past, agrees to vote for the bill’s passage once it’s introduced next again next week in Congress. Last week, Senate Democrats tentatively set Monday, Nov. 29 to bring the DREAM Act to a vote. Whether the vote comes Monday or later in the lame duck, it’s clear that the bill is approaching its day of reckoning. President Obama, who had been noticeably quiet about DREAM, seems to understand as much. He came out strongly in support of the bill last week after a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. (more…)
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