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WASHINGTON | The Senate faces another contentious showdown on immigration today when it considers legislation designed to put thousands of undocumented immigrant students on track to U.S. citizenship.

Although far more limited than a comprehensive immigration bill that collapsed in the Senate in late June, the debate on the new measure will probably resurrect the same warring sides from the earlier immigration battle.

The Senate faces a late-morning vote to take up the measure, with supporters needing at least 60 votes to move forward with debate. The chief sponsor, Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said Tuesday that his side had solid assurances of only about 55 votes, but he hoped to secure commitments from wavering senators.

Known officially as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, the bill would allow illegal immigrant children who have grown up in the United States the opportunity to apply for citizenship if they graduate from high school and get two years of college or serve in the military.

Candidates could be no older than age 30 and would have to have lived in the United States at least five years before passage of the bill.

A report released by supporters Tuesday projected that the bill would affect 360,000 undocumented high school graduates and eventually would benefit 715,000 more youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17.

By DAVE MONTGOMERY McClatchy Newspapers

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