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Senate immigration bill offers Dreamers the best DREAM Act version yet

Posted on May 24, 2013By Griselda NevarezImmigration
The latest version of the DREAM Act included in the Senate immigration reform bill would pave a five-year path to legal permanent residency for Dreamers, among other benefits. (Photo/ Rociomora/Taringa)

After a decade-long battle to push for legislation that would legalize undocumented youth who’ve resided in the United States since they were children, the Senate immigration reform bill offers Dreamers the best DREAM Act version yet.
The immigration reform bill crafted by the so-called “Gang of Eight” provides the vast majority of undocumented immigrants with a 13-year path to legal permanent residency if they learn English, pass a background check and pay back taxes, among other requirements. But the DREAM Act provision of the bill states that Dreamers wouldn’t have to wait that long to legalize their immigrant status.
Instead, they would be put on a five-year path to legal permanent residency. That’s the fastest such track ever offered by any DREAM Act legislation. To qualify, Dreamers must meet certain requirements, including have been present in the U.S. since Dec. 31, 2011, entered the U.S. before the age of 16 and either graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED.
The immigration reform bill also excludes Dreamers from having to pay certain fees. Dreamers who were deported prior to 2012 and were deported for non-criminal reasons would be allowed to reenter the country under the bill.
During the markup of the immigration reform bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two new amendments that would directly benefit Dreamers. One of those amendments, proposed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would allow Dreamers to enlist in the military and become citizens within one year of serving. Another one, filed by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), would make Dreamers eligible for some student loans and federal work-study programs to help pay for college, except Pell Grants.
New DREAM Act version is ‘testament’ of Dreamers’ advocacy work

Cristina Jimenez, managing director of United We Dream, said the immigration reform bill’s language that would benefit Dreamers is “a testament to the power that United We Dream and Dreamers have built over 10 years of organizing and sharing our stories.”
Dreamers have been advocating for legalization of immigrant youth since 2001 when Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the first version of the DREAM Act. Numerous attempts have been made to pass the legislation, which would pave a path to citizenship for undocumented youth, but none have been successful.
However, the advocacy work of Dreamers — which has centered on encouraging undocumented youth to tell their stories — paid off last summer when President Barack Obama announced Dreamers would be protected from deportation and granted work permits under the new program dubbed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Many advocates say the deferred action program — coupled with the 2012 election — helped intensify the momentum for immigration reform. The growth in momentum could’ve also influenced the senators in the “Gang of Eight” to propose in their bill this new five-year path to legal permanent residency for Dreamers.
The five-year path has received support even from opponents of the overall language of the immigration reform bill.
“Those who came here at young ages are people who have the most compelling case, so in principle I think the way the bill deals with them in general is okay,” said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that has been critical of the immigration reform bill.
“There are a lot of other things to criticize of the bill, but I don’t think that providing legal status to those who came at young ages is a bad idea,” Camarota added. “Giving them citizenship rather than some kind of temporary status certainly doesn’t seem unreasonable to me either, so I’m not too much of a critic of that part.”
DREAM Act in immigration reform bill doesn’t include age cap

However, one part of the Senate immigration reform bill that Camarota disagrees with is the lack of age cap for those who would benefit from the bill’s DREAM Act provision.
Past DREAM Act bills stated that only those who were under the age of 30 would qualify. But the DREAM Act provision included in the immigration reform bill doesn’t have an age cap. It only states that anyone who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 could benefit from it.
Camarota said this part of the bill doesn’t sit well with opponents of immigration reform.
“I do think that age caps have an important role to play because they tend to help deter fraud and they help make sure everyone is not eligible for it,” he told VOXXI. “I think that is a reasonable criticism of that provision.”
Meanwhile, Jimenez of United We Dream said an age cap would’ve left out many Dreamers who entered the U.S. as children. One of those Dreamers is Julieta Garibay, a 32-year-old who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 12 years old. Garibay, a co-founder of United We Dream, wants to become a military nurse.
Jimenez also recognized that the immigration reform bill being crafted in the House could include — or it could be amended to include — a provision that would add an age cap to the DREAM Act. The House bill could also lack some of the same provisions benefiting Dreamers that are included in the Senate bill. However, she said that in conversations with Republicans and Democrats, members of United We Dream have been pushing for the House bill to include the same language as the Senate bill.
“The new standard now is the language that you see in the Senate bill,” Jimenez told VOXXI. “That’s our message to Republicans and Democrats in the House.”


http://www.voxxi.com/senate-dreamers...#ixzz2UEYGOgrx

Mission 1: Blast the DC and home district phone lines of Mitch McConnell and Orin Hatch with our targeted messages.

Mission 2: Blast the DC and district phone lines of the rest of the US Senate with ALIPAC strategic messages.

Mission 3: Rally other Americans to our aid as rapidly as possible.

Sample Messages "I am calling/writing to demand that Mitch McConnell stop supporting the Barack Obama illegal alien Amnesty Bill S. 744. I am aware that McConnell is trying to support this Amnesty from the shadows. Mitch McConnell needs to slow this bill down and needs to 'Vote No on Cloture for S. 744.' Stop supporting Obama's immigration plans! Filibuster the Gang of 8's nation destroying Amnesty bill!"
(Remember that you must craft your own distinctive version of our message. If staffers see you cut and paste as is or know you are reading it word for word they will block you!)


Mission 1 details: McConnell and Hatch
Saturate these offices with your calls and then send in written reinforcements of your message quickly!

Senator Mitch McConnell:

Washington Office
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2541
Fax: (202) 224-2499
http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/
http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/publ....cfm?p=contact

District Offices:
London Office
300 South Main Street, Suite 310
London, KY 40741
Phone: 606-864-2026
FAX: Not Currently Available

Lexington Office
771 Corporate Drive, Suite 108
Lexington, KY 40503
Phone: 859-224-8286
FAX: Not Currently Available

Louisville Office
601 West Broadway, Room 630
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: 502-582-6304
FAX: 502-582-5326
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Senator Orrin Hatch:

Washington DC Office
104 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-5251
Fax: (202) 224-6331
http://www.hatch.senate.gov/
http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/i...fm/email-orrin

Cedar City Office
77 N. Main Street
Suite 112
Cedar City, UT 84720
Tel: (435) 586-8435
Fax: (435) 586-2147

Ogden Office
1006 Federal Building
324 25th Street
Ogden, UT 84401
Tel: (801) 625-5672
Fax: (801) 394-4503

Provo Office
51 S. University Ave.
Suite 320
Provo, UT 84601
Tel: (801) 375-7881
Fax: (801) 374-5005

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Mission 2 Details : Contact Full Senate

Same message as above.

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Sen. Sessions: Senate immigration bill will 'hammer working Americans'


By Bernie Becker - 05/25/13 09:48 AM ET

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Friday that the Senate immigration reform bill would “hammer working Americans.”
Sessions, one of the immigration overhaul’s most strident critics, suggested the measure would prioritize foreign-born workers over people already in the U.S. struggling to find a job.


“This is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now,” Sessions, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Fox Business. “It's really, really dangerous.”
The Senate Judiciary panel cleared the immigration bill crafted by the so-called “Gang of Eight” this week by a bipartisan 13-5 vote, and its supporters hope to rack up 70 votes in the chamber.

But Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), one of the Gang of Eight, said Friday that the vote doesn’t yet have 60 votes in the chamber. Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), another senior Republican on the Judiciary panel, voted for the measure in committee, but has said he might not back it on the Senate floor.

In his Friday interview, Sessions stressed that the unions for the officers that guard the border opposed the immigration bill, and that the measure would be a huge burden on the American safety net.
“We believe in immigration,” Sessions said. “All of us do. And we all believe that we need to make this legal system of immigration better. This bill just does not do it, and it can't pass in this form.”

Key conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation are also deeply skeptical of the Senate immigration bill, but other prominent figures on the right, like Grover Norquist and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, back a comprehensive immigration reform.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...#ixzz2UPaQpuST

But Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), one of the Gang of Eight, said Friday that the vote doesn’t yet have 60 votes in the chamber. Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), another senior Republican on the Judiciary panel, voted for the measure in committee, but has said he might not back it on the Senate floor.

You can bet that they will be wheeling and dealing and twisting arms to make sure they get the votes. Menendez probably would like everyone to become complacent and shut up about it while they hatch a plan to get it through.

Menendez Tries to Scare Immigration Activists

by Mike Flynn


On Friday, as Congress was preparing for a week-long recess, NJ Sen. Bob Menendez said supporters of the Senate Amnesty bill were short the 60 votes they needed for passage. The next two weeks are critical for both opponents and backers of the Gang of 8 legislation in the Senate. While the media has treated passage of the Senate bill as a foregone conclusion, opposition is growing. Menendez's remarks Friday are intended to galvanize supporters of amnesty into action.

The Democrats hold 55 seats in the Senate. Including the 4 GOP negotiators on the amnesty bill would presumably leave supporters just one vote short of overcoming a possible filibuster. Menendez's comment suggests that not all Democrat Senators are assured of supporting the immigration bill.
This week, two events gave new optimism to opponents of the bill. Early in the week, a broad coalition of conservative and tea party organizations announced their opposition to the Senate bill. The coalition promised to engage grass roots activists to defeat the Senate bill. Late in the week, meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team announced that the House would do its own work to reform the immigration system and wouldn't consider a bill passed by the Senate.
Importantly, Boehner was joined in his statement by VA Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte's committee will take the lead role on crafting immigration reform in the House. He is expected to move several individual pieces of legislation addressing the issue. Related talks on a comprehensive bill to reform immigration by a House version of the Senate's gang have stalled.
When the Senate returns on June 3rd, it will resume work on a Farm Bill. It will likely take up immigration the following week. Momentum has moved slightly against the Senate amnesty bill. Menendez is hoping to mobilize supporters of amnesty to reverse this. Gang members have publicly stated they hope for 70 or more votes in support of the amnesty bill. Menendez is hoping to scare activists enough to help make that happen.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...tion-activists

Texas official: Obama playing politics with U.S. border

Drug cartels are running rampant across the Texas border, and the federal government is doing little to impede the smuggling andviolence, says the Lone Star State’s Agriculture Commissioner, Todd Staples.
Staples, who addressed the House Immigration Reform Caucus on border security and immigration issues last week, is one of a cavalcade of local officials and interested parties making their way to Washington, DC as the Senate considers the “Gang of Eight” omnibus immigration bill.

But his advocacy for farmers and ranchers in Texas, he told The Daily Caller, gives Staples a special perspective on the immigration issue. Texans along the southern border, he said, feel like they’re living in a no-man’s land and must fend for themselves in the absence of federal enforcement.


“The Constitution says it’s the federal government’s duty to protect against incursion from foreign invasion. I can’t think of a better way to describe this,” says Staples, who is running for lieutenant governor of Texas in 2014, largely on an immigration-reform platform. The state gets short shrift compared to California and Arizona, Staples said. “People have a right to defend themselves.”

He’s not referring to groups like the Minutemen but to ranchers and farmers defending themselves against armed marauders. “What the federal government has done is create a situation in which it’s impossible for good men and women to tell the difference between thugs who want to do harm and illegal immigrants just looking for work.”
In his book “Broken Border, Broken Promises,” Staples describes constituents who have gun battles with cartels, others who have fled hostile intruders and some who narrowly avoided kidnapping.

Staples, whose department in 2011 ordered a “Strategic Military Assessment” of immigration from retired Army general and former drug czar Barry McCaffrey, says Washington needs to pay closer attention to links among South and Central American regimes, criminal networks and fanatical foreign powers. He advocates naming Mexican cartels as terrorist groups and adopting some of the military hardware now at play on the Afghan-Pakistan border along America’s southern border.“Military mobilization is not what I’m suggesting,” Staples said. “Just a commitment to security, but we have to have the will. Unfortunately, it’s not evident in this administration.”

Rather than militarizing the border, the Obama Administration is doing the opposite, politicizing it, said Staples. He pointed to President Barack Obama’s battle with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer over SB 1070 [pdf], a state law that required state and local police to during traffic stops and other lawful contact, provided they have reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal.

Obama’s Justice Department contended to the Supreme Court that immigration responsibilities fall solely within the purview of the Feds, but Staples argues, “It just doesn’t make any sense for the government under this administration to say it has absolute authority over border and immigration policy and then assume little of it.”
Staples, a former state representative and senator from the Palestine area between Houston and Dallas, believes the Obama administration wants to ease up on immigration enforcement for political reasons. “It’s called ‘Battleground Texas.’ That’s the Democrats’ plan to turn Texas into a Democrat stronghold, so Republicans will never win another national election,” he said.


“Democrats are interested in voters, not workers,” Staples said. “The labor unions calling the shots don’t want that kind of competition. What we get instead is neither security, nor a workforce, but government dependency for a whole new swath of people Democrats will muster at election time.”Staples supports a guest worker program as an immigration solution but does not want it to come with an automatic path to citizenship either. He said the GOP on Capitol Hill is falling into a political trap by talking simply of security and amnesty.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/27/te...#ixzz2Ub53pHn2

While many of you are working very hard to call the US Senate and House each and every day, the national media is reporting that not enough of you are calling DC lawmakers to stop Amnesty 2013! While we are aware that the elites have knocked out many of the communication channels and news reporters who got the public stirred up back in 2007, the deadly illegal alien invasion supporters are gloating about the lower volume of calls!

Our friends at NumbersUSA report that these apathy levels and lower frequency of calls are leading lawmakers who oppose Amnesty to consider voting for this bill!

We need all of you reading this e-mail to take immediate action to compensate for the unfortunate number of Americans who are not making calls of protest because Fox News is on board with Amnesty and because more Americans than ever are cowering before the reign of Barack Obama!

For the rest of this week we need you to bombard U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) with calls of complaint about his recent declaration of support for the Amnesty bill S. 744!

With Heller joining the Gang of 8 Republicans (Graham, McCain, Flake, and Rubio), this means that Harry Reid and Obama only need 2 more Republican traitors on board with Amnesty to have the 60 votes they need to pass a cloture vote and then pass Amnesty bill S. 744!

REMEMBER THAT SENATOR HELLER IS FROM NEVADA WHERE SO MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE VOTING IN ELECTIONS OUT OF LAS VEGAS WHERE THEY SAVED HARRY REID'S CAMPAIGN FROM SHARRON ANGLE IN 2010, AND DESPITE OUR FORMAL COMPLAINTS ABOUT THESE FELONIOUS VOTERS, THE CORRUPT NEVADA POLITICIANS STILL HAVE THEIR ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING BLOC IN VEGAS.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Step 1: Read the following article about Senator Dean Heller pushing Amnesty for illegal immigrants...

Senator Heller Supports Obama's Amnesty
http://www.alipac.us/content/senator-heller-supports-amnesty-1864/

Step 2: Craft your own distinctive version of our sample message to deliver by phone and in writing.

"I'm calling/writing to tell Senator Dean Heller that I oppose his support for Barack Obama's Amnesty for illegal aliens. How dare he complain about the lack of enforcement of our current immigration laws while seeking to permanently undermine our existing laws by supporting Amnesty for illegal aliens in S. 744! We need to remove lawmakers like Dean Heller from public office for selling out Americans to big campaign donors and illegal immigrants!"

Step 3: Call, call, call, all of Heller's offices! Start with his DC office and leave a message if you must, but then call all of his district offices. Once you have called in, then send in a written version of your distinctive message by email, fax, or letter.

Sen. Dean Heller - (R - NV)
324 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6244
Fax: 202-228-6753
Contact: www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Carson City Office
305 North Carson Street, Suite 201
Carson City, NV 89701
Phone: 775-885-9111
Fax: 775-883-5590

Elko Office
3290 Idaho Street, Suite 2A
Elko, NV 89801
Phone: 775-738-2001
Phone: 775-738-2002
Fax: 775-738-2004

Las Vegas Office
Lloyd George Federal Building
333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 8203
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-388-6605
Fax: 702-388-6501

Reno Office
Bruce Thompson Federal Building
400 S. Virginia Street, Suite 738
Reno, NV 89501
Phone: 775-686-5770
Fax: 775- 686-5729


Step 4: Rally friends, family members, neighbors, and online contacts to join us on the phones letting Heller know we are taking him out of the Senate in the next election for his seat! You can rally others by posting this call for action or a link into this alert on other websites, in online forums, on social media like Twitter and Facebook, or by forwarding this email. (Special note: if you forward this email remove the "Unsubscribe" option at the bottom or someone else may disconnect you from the ALIPAC alert network).

We hope that more of you will take these 4 simple steps today.

Americans, it is literally time to move it or lose it, and what you will lose if you don't move is your own nation.

The current losses of lives and treasury from the deadly and costly illegal alien invasion of America are horrible even though most of this news never reaches the public due to massive censorship by the totalitarian regime under which we live.

What awaits us all down the line once the nation is fully taken over will take this horror to a whole new level if you do not stand and fight back now!

You can post any questions, staff feedback, or suggestions at this activism tracking link...
Shortage of Calls Against Amnesty Leads Senator Heller to Support Obama's Bill

Let's roll on Heller!

William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us
www.againstamnesty.com
www.WeCanImpeachObama.com

Our friends at NumbersUSA report that these apathy levels and lower frequency of calls are leading lawmakers who oppose Amnesty to consider voting for this bill!

We need all of you reading this e-mail to take immediate action to compensate for the unfortunate number of Americans who are not making calls of protest because Fox News is on board with Amnesty and because more Americans than ever are cowering before the reign of Barack Obama!

For the rest of this week we need you to bombard U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) with calls of complaint about his recent declaration of support for the Amnesty bill S. 744!

Lets all make our voices heard on this....we cannot give up, if we do the country turns into a 3rd world pit.....and none of us want to see that happen!

Reid Says He'll Easily Get the 60 Votes to Pass Immigration Bill



Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:55 PM
By Melanie Batley


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it will be "pretty easy" to get the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate's immigration overhaul legislation, which would mark a significant milestone for one of the president's top initiatives.

"I think we have 60 votes," the Nevada Democrat said in an interview for the television program "To the Point," according to The Las Vegas Sun.

"Remember, we start out at 55 Democrats. I think the most I'll lose is two or three. Let's say I wind up with 52 Democrats. I only need eight Republicans, and I already have four, so that should be pretty easy."

The bipartisan bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee with a number of amendments last week. Reid, who has the authority to determine the order of legislation, told reporters last week the measure is the first item on his agenda after the farm bill, which is currently pending, according to Roll Call.

Nevada Sen. Dean Heller is one Republican who recently signaled his intention to vote for the immigration measure.

"In order for immigration reform legislation to be successful, it must continue through Congress with an open process. These past several weeks, I have been able to work with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and other senators involved in this important bill, and we are finding ways to make this legislation even better," he wrote Sunday in an op-ed piece carried in The Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"I am hopeful that this same pattern of transparency and openness will continue as members debate the legislation on the Senate floor."



http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/har...#ixzz2Umy3gDQX