U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement.

Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the Dream Act of 2025, marking the bill’s latest iteration since the bipartisan bill was originally introduced in 2001. The legislation, which has been introduced several times but never passed, would allow Dreamers — or noncitizens without lawful status who were brought to the U.S. as children — to pursue citizenship if they meet military, education or work requirements.

Dreamers are protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which was launched by former President Barack Obama 13 years ago and covers more than 800,0

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