Nicole Sandler filled in for Randi Rhodes (fast-forward to minute 28; I was dropped in the beginning because of some phone trouble but joined back in righ away) on her radio show to discuss the DREAM Act:

As you know, today President Obama signed into law the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and frankly it’s a very bittersweet moment for many of us Latinos, whether gay or straight, brown, white, or black there are many of us that are progressive and that support the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell but still feel let down by the Democrats and frankly by some progressive organizations, media personalities and by the President himself.  I’m talking, of course, about the DREAM Act NOT passing, which would have given the opportunity to our youth to have a path to legalization if they fulfilled the requirements of having a good moral character and either go to college or join the military. 

I’m also talking about the DREAM Act not being on par with the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in terms of priorities for many progressives, I’m talking about the five, mostly Conservative Democrats, that voted against the DREAM Act and the one that was absent, and I’m talking about President Obama’s policy of appeasing Republicans with outrageous theatrical displays of record-breaking deportations of our people that really eclipsed Bush’s record; typical of Obama to first appease Republicans and then try to craft some version of a “compromise” that is anything but … what many of these Republicans and Conservative Democrats don’t realize because they live in their bubbles going to their cocktails parties and listening to the Fox [Republican] News network is that when they drag out their “oh we don’t want people cut in front of the line for legalization, what about those that waited their turn?” sloganeering is that for many of us Latino voters, when they say “illegal aliens”, they’re talking about our brothers, our sisters, our fathers, our mothers, our cousins, our friends, our boyfriends, our girlfriends, I mean, this is personal for us, and it goes beyond the bogus pitting of the “legal” immigrants v. the “illegal” ones.