Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing On DREAM Act

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 28: People wear graduation gowns and mortar board hats while attending the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security hearing about the DREAM Act June 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, would provide conditional permanent residency to certain illegal alien students who graduate from U.S. high schools, are deemed to be of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. as minors, and have been in the country continuously for at least five years prior to the bill’s enactment. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)