How the Dream Act may have led to Eric Cantor’s loss

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The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is likely to significantly chill efforts to pass an immigration reform bill this year.

Cantor, R-Va., was defeated by Dave Brat, an economics professor who relentlessly attacked Cantor over his ambiguous stance on comprehensive immigration reform and his backing of a plan to legalize people who came here illegally as children.

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