Richard Blumenthal actually said...

You have given us a new DREAMer to call a model for why we should pass this act and expedite the earned citizenship status.

I favor a broader solution, a little bit of 'all of the above' solution around high-skilled immigration.

I think to characterize it as amnesty would be rejected by many of us who support it, the idea of earning citizenship by paying back taxes, ...

I have been a long-time advocate of the DREAM Act, both as State Attorney General and now as a United States Senator.