Thread: DREAM Act as an amendment to H.R. 1585!!!

The email below is from an open borders group: "Today, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) announced that next week he, Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) will introduce the DREAM Act as an amendment to H.R. 1585, the Department of Defense authorization bill, which is now being debated in the Senate."

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Help Wanted: Call Your Senators to Support the DREAM Act!

from: mbelanger@immigrationforum.org

With the failure of comprehensive immigration reform in this Congress, advocates have been assessing prospects for attaining partial measures. The logical place to begin has been with two pieces of legislation that have been reintroduced again and again in the past several Congresses, and have already garnered significant support. One of those is the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrant students. (The other is AgJOBS.)

The DREAM Act may be offered as an amendment to a Defense Department Authorization bill next week.

In addition to the information below, you can find more information on the DREAM Act here:

http://www.immigrationforum.org/Desktop ... ?tabid=878

Mini Civics Lesson: What does immigration reform have to do with the Department of Defense?

As a tactic to get around the kind of obstructionism we saw in the comprehensive reform debate, legislation is sometimes tacked on to unrelated legislation that is likely to pass. In fact, many laws are passed in this way. In the immigration arena, an example from the late 90’s was the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA), which passed as an amendment to the District of Columbia Appropriations Act.

Your Letters and Calls will be Needed!

Below is an action alert from the National Immigration Law Center asking for help in advocating for the DREAM Act. Although the DREAM Act targets a very sympathetic population (i.e. immigrant students, generally brought to the U.S. by their parents, now Americanized, having gone through our school system and on their way to college), that does not mean this fight will be any easier than the comprehensive reform battle. Anti-immigrant groups and their right-wing talk show allies will spew the same venom against undocumented immigrant students as they did against undocumented immigrants in general. What do I mean? Check out the recent remarks from this right-wing radio host. After you’ve done so, please act on the alert pasted below! Based on our very recent experience with comprehensive reform, we know Congress will hear plenty from talk show listeners who will oppose legalization for undocumented students. Let’s make sure Congress hears from the students’ supporters!


But first, this amusing aside…

Amnesty: It’s all Relative

In the debate on the Senate immigration bill, opponents of the bill spoke harshly against the concept that we treat undocumented immigrants leniently. With all the fines and requirements included in the bill, it was still characterized as “amnestyâ€

a RAND study showed that a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant woman who graduates from college will pay $5,300 more in taxes and cost $3,900 less in government expenses each year than if she had dropped out of high school.

She'll cost even less when she's back in Mexico. $0. Nada. Zip. What she should cost us.

a RAND study showed that a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant woman who graduates from college will pay $5,300 more in taxes and cost $3,900 less in government expenses each year than if she had dropped out of high school.

She'll cost even less when she's back in Mexico. $0. Nada. Zip. What she should cost us.

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THATS RIGHT...LET THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT PAY FOR HER EDUCATION. AND DONT FORGET SOME OF THE MONEY SHE MAKES WILL BE SENT TO MEXICO AND FEED THE MEXICAN ECONOMY INSTEAD OF THE USA ECONOMY.

WE NEED TO DEPORT AS MANY AS POSSIBLE TO BRING DOWN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING SENT INTO OTHER ECONOMIES AND NOT BEING SPENT IN OUR ECONOMY.

THIS INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM ALL COUNTRIES, NOT JUST MEXICO. IF THE MONEY IS SPENT HERE THAT CREATES MORE JOBS FOR AMERICANS. AND NO ILLEGALS HERE.....EVEN MORE JOBS FOR AMERICANS. IS SHE GOING TO GET A JOB THAT AMERICANS WONT DO? DONT THINK SO.

These greedy ingrates did it to themselves. Give'em an inch, they want a mile!

The DREAM act is a sneaky back door general amnesty. An illegal would only have to go to two years of trade school part time to qualify. After the two years then they can get a green card and sponsor their family members. I can see all kinds of bogus "trade schools" springing up.

Gosh it is starting to sound like the names they use in Iraq.

We need Operation Justice! Send the Illegal's Home!

Let's get the word out on this to talk radio ASAP, blogosphere etc.

The DREAM Act is not a "mini-amnesty"

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet.
(What matters is what something is, not what it is called.)

So what kinda funding does this "Dream Act" give these parasites? I am to assume a free ride at our expense?

The DREAM Act would provide in-state tuition once they can prove they are residents of the state itself and grant conditional residency and upon graduation from college they receive permanent residency.