Thread: Students in Dallas press Sen. Hutchison to back DREAM ACT

Students in Dallas press Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to back DREAM Act

12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News
kunmuth@dallasnews.com

College students seeking to persuade U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support the DREAM Act staged a demonstration Tuesday outside the building in which her Dallas office is located.

The Texas Republican has said she will not support the proposed legislation, which would establish a path to legal status for illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States before age 16, have been in the country at least five years, and pursue a college education or enter the military.

A group calling itself the North Texas DREAM team said it would remain outside the senator's office until the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act goes to a vote in Congress, which could happen as soon as today.

The doors at Hutchison's Dallas office were locked Tuesday, and a sign said the staff would meet only with constituents who had appointments.

"We are doing this to ensure the safety and security of our constituents, staff and those demonstrating," the sign read.

Two staffers addressed a student representative in the lobby Tuesday afternoon and released a statement explaining the senator's stance.

Lisette Mondello, a senior adviser to Hutchison, said the senator has met with many students about the issue.

"The senator is extremely sympathetic and understands the passion these students have for this issue," she said. "But she cannot support a bill as expansive as this one."

Security officers for the office building in North Dallas had asked the students to leave when they first requested a meeting Monday. Students then began their sit-in and stayed overnight.

Similar events were held across the state this week.

During the day, about 10 students sat in front of the office building in a pile of blankets beside the access road of North Central Expressway near Meadow Road.

Ramiro Luna, 27, a Texas Tech University student studying bilingual education who graduated from Dallas' Skyline High School, said he was passionate about the issue because he would be helped by passage of the act. He was 7 when he was brought to the United States from Mexico.

"We'll be contributing more taxes to our country working," he said. "The brain power lost if this doesn't pass is something you can't put a price tag on."

Viridiana, 23, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May and is unemployed because of her immigration status. She attended the university on scholarship after graduating from Dallas' Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

"I feel like I'm just wasting my potential just sitting around the house," said the student, who asked that her last name not be used. "I feel like I'm hopeless and I'm stuck. I could be paying taxes right now if I had a job. The state has invested in me to give me an education, and I feel like I can't pay them back."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... a2727.html

"I feel like I'm just wasting my potential just sitting around the house," said the student, who asked that her last name not be used. "I feel like I'm hopeless and I'm stuck. I could be paying taxes right now if I had a job. The state has invested in me to give me an education, and I feel like I can't pay them back."

I had to put on hip waders to read this one.

It is a shame that they don't see the potential in their own country for "change".

The state didn't ""invest" in her, they were forced to pay and she is a thief of public funds. JMO

Don't give in Sen. Hutchison!

JUST SAY NO!

They have received an education ... now, let them go home and use it to better their country! They are definately needed in THEIR OWN countries.

From William:

America,

This is your last chance to weigh in against the Dream Act Amnesty which the US Senate plans to vote for Cloture on around 4:30pm Eastern today! (3 hours from time of this email).

The US House plans to vote on Amnesty around 7:30pm EST!

ALIPAC activists across America are lighting up the DC switchboards, while tracking who is voting for or against Cloture on the Dream Amnesty in the Senate. ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, is doing back to back talk radio shows rallying more Americans to our efforts to defend America.

Millions of you are on the verge of being replaced and displaced in your jobs, classrooms, and voting enclosures.

Speak out now while minutes remain.

STEP 1: Your efforts have helped to move key votes our way! Please call the Senators below listed as "Noting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture" and say "I want to thank Senator ______ for standing with Americans, instead of foreign nationals. Tell Senator ____ I said thank you for agreeing to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE. Please ask Senator ____ to encourage other Senators to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE like he/she is."

STEP 2: Please call, then write the Senate offices listed below as VOTING YES or MAY VOTE YES ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE.

Call and say "Please ask Senator ______ no to sellout America! Ask him/her to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE. Dream Amnesty is inappropriate for the lame duck session and would displace and replace millions of innocent American students, workers, and voters!"

Step 3: After you have called and written ALIPAC's senate targets below, please rally more Americans (friends, neighbors) to join you and then proceed to call and write our targets in the Congress found at this link.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219949.html

PLEASE KEEP CALLING AND WRITING UNTIL YOU RECEIVE FURTHER WORD FROM US.

THE DEMOCRATS ONLY NEED A FEW MORE VOTES TO PASS AMNESTY.

Give this everything you have!

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us


SENATE TARGETS

Sen. Bob Bennett (R., Utah) VOTING YES FOR AMNESTY, if stand alone bill.
Washington D.C.
431 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-4403
Phone: (202) 224-5444 (202) 224-5444
Salt Lake Office
Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building
125 South State Street, Suite 4225
Salt Lake City, UT 84138-1188
Phone: (801) 524-5933 (801) 524-5933


Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Indiana) LEANING YES FOR AMNESTY
306 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4814
Web Form: http://lugar.senate.gov/contact/
101 NW Martin Luther King Boulevard
Room 122
Evansville, Indiana 47708
(812) 465-6313 p
(812) 421-1883 f

Baucus, Max (D-MT) MAY VOTE YES ON AMNESTY{/b}
DC Phone: (202) 224-2651 Fax: (202) 224-9412 (Fax)
Billings Phone: (406) 657-6790 Fax: (406) 657-6793
Helena Phone: (406) 449-5480 Fax: (406) 449-5484
Missoula Phone: (406) 329-3123 Fax: (406) 728-7610
Kalispell Phone: (406) 756-1150 Fax: (406) 756-1152
Bozeman Phone: (406) 586-6104 Fax: (406) 587-9177
Butte Phone: (406) 782-8700 Fax: (406) 782-6553
Great Falls Phone: (406) 761-1574 Fax: (406) 727-3726
http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailF ... subj=issue


Susan Collins (R., Maine) [b]MAY VOTE FOR OBAMA's AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-2523 Fax: (202) 224-2693
Bangor Phone: (207) 945-0417 Fax: (207) 990-4604
Augusta Phone: (207) 622-8414 Fax: (207) 622-5884
Biddeford Phone: (207) 283-1101 Fax: (207) 283-4054
Lewiston Phone: (207) 784-6969 Fax: (207) 782-6475
Caribou Phone: (207) 493-7873 Fax: (207) 493-7810
Portland Phone: (207) 780-3575 Fax: (207) 828-0380
http://collins.senate.gov/public/contin ... EmailIssue


Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) MAY VOTE FOR AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-5344 Fax: (202) 224-1946
Portland Phone: (207) 874-0883 Fax: (207) 874-7631
Auburn Phone: (207) 786-2451 Fax: (207) 782-1438
Augusta Phone: (207) 622-8292 Fax: (207) 622-7295
Bangor Phone: (207) 945-0432 Fax: (207) 941-9525
Biddeford Phone: (207) 282-4144 Fax: (207) 284-2358
Presque Isle Phone: (207) 764-5124 Fax: (207) 764-6420
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cf ... nowe.Email


Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska)MAY VOTE FOR AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-6665 Fax: (202) 224-5301
Anchorage Office 907-271-3735 Fax 907-276-4081
Fairbanks Office 907-456-0233 Fax 907-451-7146
Juneau Delegation Office 907-586-7400 Fax 907-586-8922
Kenai Delegation Office 907-283-5808 Fax 907-283-4363
Ketchikan Delegation Office 907-225-6880 Fax 907-225-0390
MatSu Delegation Office 907-376-7665 Fax 907-376-8526
Bethel Delegation Office 907-543-1639 Fax 907-543-1637
http://murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact


Sens. Sam Brownback (R, Kansas) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Tel: 202-224-6521 Fax: 202-228-1265
Topeka Phone: (785) 233-2503 Fax: (785) 233-2616
Pittsburg Phone: (620) 231-6040 Fax: (620) 231-6347
Overland Park Phone: (913) 492-6378 Fax: (913) 492-7253
Wichita Phone: (316) 264-8066 Fax: (316) 264-9078
Garden City Phone: (620) 275-1124 Fax: (620) 275-1837
http://brownback.senate.gov/public/contact/emailsam.cfm


Sens KayBailey Hutchinson (R, Texas) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5922
Web Form: http://hutchison.senate.gov/contact.cfm
961 Federal Building
300 East 8th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
512-916-5834 512-916-5839 (FAX)

Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-5251 Fax: (202) 224-6331
Salt Lake City Phone: (801) 524-4380 Fax: (801) 524-4379
Ogden Phone: (801) 625-5672 Fax: (801) 394-4503
Provo Phone: (801) 375-7881 Fax: (801) 374-5005
Cedar City Phone: (435) 586-8435 Fax: (435) 586-2147
St. George Phone: (435) 634-1795 Fax: (435) 634-1796
http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cf ... es.Contact


Pryor, Mark (D-AR) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908
Little Rock Office Phone: (501) 324-6336 Fax: (501) 324-5320
Toll Free from AR: (877) 259-9602
http://pryor.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe


Nelson, Ben (D-NE) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-6551 Fax: (202) 228-0012
Lincoln Phone: (402) 441-4600 Fax: (402) 476-8753
Omaha Phone: (402) 391-3411 Fax: (402) 391-4725
Chadron Phone: (30 430-0587 Fax:
Scottsbluff Phone: (30 631-7614 Fax:
http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact-me.cfm
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"The senator is extremely sympathetic and understands the passion these students have for this issue," she said. "But she cannot support a bill as expansive as this one."

The Senator is a smart woman. Advocates of the amnesty would have us believe that it will only benefit a small, select group of students, when anyone with half a brain can figure out it would benefit millions of illegals. Senator Kirk's office (IL) agrees that the bill is far too broad. He may or may not support a very narrowly defined bill.

We only gave her an education because the Supreme COurt forced us to. We didn't want to. And when the case was decided the justices said they didn't think it would be an expensive burden - maybe with new evidence we should lobby to reopen the case.

DREAM Act proponents (from left) Jesus Valdivia, Viridiana (who asked that her last name be withheld), Jennifer Cortez, Gustavo Delgado and Jasmine Saucedo demonstrate outside the building that houses U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's office in North Dallas. An adviser said Hutchison is sympathetic but 'cannot support a bill as expansive as this one.'

Look at the pile of American flags on the ground next to the Dreamies.

Dixie

Cornyn came out today & said he is willing to work on amnesty with the commies & socialist...American citizens need to work to get "recall" rights for anyone that works/votes against Americans!

Originally Posted by Dixie

Look at the pile of American flags on the ground next to the Dreamies.

Dixie

They don't get it, do they!!!!!!