Senators voted this morning on a procedural motion that would have allowed the U.S. Senate to proceed to debate and soon thereafter vote on the DREAM Act. Sixty votes were needed to proceed to debate on the bill; the final vote tally was 52-44.

The DREAM Act has garnered bipartisan support, but the vote fell short, with a number of Republicans voting in favor and a number of Democrats voting against the motion to proceed. NIJC will continue to support efforts to enact the DREAM Act in this Congress.

See the vote tally here.

In related news: Yesterday, Representative Tom Tancredo tried to convince ICE to raid the press conference Senator Durbin held on the DREAM Act because it was attended by some undocumented immigrants. ICE declined to raid the U.S. Capitol.