President Obama's DREAM visa bill may reunite Northern Irish family

Ephraim how did kennedy's work in immigration reform help the Irish. Second obama's move is to bolster his illegal hispanic vote as they are much greater in numbers. My fellow American citizens that went through the process to become American citizens are the ones who should be the most upset.

@Scrivner - It didn't happen then for the same reason that much of the legislation that Obama promised in his 2008 campaign didn't happen. The Dream Act was passed by the House of Representatives in 2010. It was taken up for a vote in the Senate later that year. A republican announced that he was filabustering it. Reid only had a 55 vote majority for it. Not the 60 votes needed to over ride the filabuster. While the filabuster was used in the past as a stalling tactic to allow the public a chance to write their senators about controversial legislation by the minority party, it required a senator to stand on the floor and actually talk. This meant that the senator had to really be opposed to the bill. Now all the senator has to do is announce his/her intention to filabuster and the senate must vote by at least 60 to 40 to allow a real vote on the measure. Reid should have changed the rules back to their old form in 2010 but did not. Hopefully he will retain the majority and be able to do so for the 2012 elected Senate. It would have saved the Nation much of its current troubles if he had done so after the 2008 election then we would not have been so stuck in the gridlock declared by McConnel to prevent the President from winning a second term. From the polls, the American people have caught on to what he is doing and they don't like it.

They deserve as much sympathy as the guys who whiz along the shoulder or emergency lane of the expressway while the rest of us wait in a traffic jam.

So, in a worst case scenerio, the parents could be deported but the children could stay? Romster is right when he says that we need comprehensive reform, but this Obama change is a humaitarian move. Wonder why it didn't happen when the Dems controlled both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency...couldn't blame the backbenchers, they were way outnumbered.

HOOLIGAN: get a clue. No nation can long exist if they punish the children that had absolutely nothing to do with any (alleged) criminal behavior whatsoever. Good for you Malachy and the McAllister family. Your wife/mother is looking down upon you today. New Jersey is your home and we are proud to have you here. Cead mile failte.

No nation can long exist if they reward criminal behavior.