DREAM Act Youth Occupy McCain's Office as Lame-Duck Vote Nears

November 17 2010, 9:30 AM EST

UPDATE 1:30pm ET: Six undocumented youth are camped out inside Arizona Sen. John McCain’s D.C. office and plan to say there until they can get a statement of support from McCain. In doing so they risk arrest, and deportation.

“Not too long ago, Senator McCain was a champion, he supported and rallied for us,” said Guillermo, one of the young people taking part in the sit-in. “I look up to him as a war hero and are only asking from him to give me the same opportunity he had to serve and protect this nation, I want to be Marine.”

The day began with a White House meeting between President Obama and Congressional Hispanic Caucus leadership, and ended with the announcement from New York Rep. Nydia Velasquez that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had tentatively set Nov. 29 as the date to bring the DREAM Act up for a vote.


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