Martinez doesn't care what his constituents think -- USA Today

Via USA Today:

By one measure, the DREAM Act would seem the least controversial of the three: When the Senate Judiciary Committee considered it in 2003, the vote in favor was 16-3.

The opposition this year is enough to raise doubts about whether it or any piece of the immigration act can become law in the current Congress.

"I just don't think the political wherewithal is there to do it," says Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., the party's national chairman.

He supported the immigration overhaul but isn't sure he'll back relief for illegal immigrant children as a separate issue.

And though Martinez says it hasn't affected his stance, he says he received "a flood of letters and phone calls" opposing the DREAM Act when Durbin tried to add it to the defense authorization bill last month [emphasis added].

Note: the two years of higher education required by the DREAM Act to stay in America need not be in English.