Newly-elected GOP congressman supports Dream Act

It might not be enough to call him a friend of progress for this country, but Anh Joseph Cao, who just won a seat in the House of Representatives representing New Orleans, looks promising for the Dream Act. From The Huck Upchuck:

As an immigrant himself for whom English was, and is, a second language, Joseph Cao's answers to just about all of the questions posed were extremely progressive -- I thought even more progressive than Helena Moreno's answers. Cao supports comprehensive immigration reform and he does not think a security first policy is appropriate as a rational and feasible and even humane approach to the issue; he supports the DREAM act that would allow undocumented children of immigrants the rights to temporary (and perhaps permanent) legal status; he supports legislative initiatives that would provide access to information and documents in the native languages of non-english speaking peoples; as a lawyer himself, he has an impressive knowledge of federal immigration and citizenship laws; he supports bi-lingual education and was personally instrumental in establishing a language immersion public charter school in New Orleans east in the Vietnamese and Spanish languages; and he projected a commitment to the principles of social justice in ways that one would simply not expect of a Republican.

Cao represents a rather liberal urban area with a growing Latino population. Let's hope that this rising republican can also help persuade the knownothings on immigration reform.