Thread: LULAC CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF DREAM ACT

Senate Expected to Vote on the DREAM Act.

Immediate Action Must be Taken! LULAC Calls on Bipartisan Support to Make THIS DREAM a Reality !

The Senate has introduced the DREAM Act as an amendment to H.R. 1585, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Richard Lugar (R-IN) announced last week that S. 774, a bill that was originally introduced back in March, would be added as a provision to the DOD Authorization bill. The provisions of the DREAM Amendment are expected to be identical to S.774.

IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED

If passed, the amendment would provide a six year path to permanent residency and an eventual citizenship for millions of undocumented children and students if they graduate from high school and continue on to college or the military.

The Amendment needs 60 votes to be adopted and its passage would be a monumental leap forward to finally passing the DREAM Act, but this amendment must be adopted first.

LULAC strongly urges an immediate passage. Each year 65,000 promising high school students are denied access to higher education. Without legal status, their doors are immediately closed, despite having lived the majority of their life in the United States, learned English, volunteered in their communities, and successfully graduated from high school.

The DREAM Act can help these displaced students - who are without documentation - contribute to the national economy and continue their professional careers through higher education.

ACT NOW ! Write to Your Senators, or Connect to Them at the U.S. Capitol Switchboard Office at 202-224-3121.

Urge Your Senators to Move this Legislation Forward. Pass Amendment #2237 in the DOD Authorization Bill.

It’s not just a DREAM anymore. It is a reality. Express your support now.

The dream act is just another way to make more illegals legal. Anything that LULAC supports, Americans should immediately protest against.

Placeholder of the amendment until it is proposed:

http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D ... p/~bd1FKF::

The text of the amendment:

http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r ... 001:S09276

You will see the DREAM Act halfway down the list.