The brutal irony of the DREAM Act being spiked by conservatives, many Christians, a week before Christmas.

Three questions for the Christian constituents of the senators who voted against the DREAM Act yesterday:

  1. Was the Son of God born in a barn, among the animals and their waste, his earthly parents exhausted from their flight from the authorities?
  2. What’s this about a government sending soldiers to check people’s papers, especially those of children?
  3. Should children be punished for the choices – the desperate, life or death choices – their parents have made?

The full list of the honorable Senators who voted against the DREAM Act a week before tens of millions of Americans celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, born a refugee, in a manger: