Thread: OREGON (ILLEGAL) IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ON DREAM ACT

VOTE NO ! THIS IS FROM THE OTHER SIDE





Tuesday, October 23, 2007
DREAM Act headed for a vote--CALL NOW!!!
CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AND TELL THEM TO VOTE "YES" ON THE DREAM ACT!!!

The DREAM Act will likely come up for a vote on the Senate floor this Wednesday.

IT IS IMPERATIVE FOR ALL DREAM ACT SUPPORTERS TO CALL YOUR SENATORS, send an e-mail message and fax them, do it all over again on Wednesday morning first thing.

SHUTDOWN THE SENATE SWITCHBOARD WITH YOUR CALLS!

CALL 202-224-3121

Last week, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) re-introduced the DREAM Act as a new stand-alone bill, S. 2205. Most likely this Wednesday there will be a "cloture" vote on whether the DREAM Act can be debated and ultimately voted on. This will mark the first time that the DREAM Act has ever come to a clean vote on the Senate floor.

The provisions of S. 2205 are similar, though not identical, to S. 774, the version of the DREAM Act that was filed by the Senators Durbin, Hagel, and Lugar earlier this year. Like the earlier version, S. 2205 would provide a 6-year path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship for individuals brought to the U.S. more than 5 years ago as undocumented children if they graduate from high school and continue on to college or military service.

The cloture motion will require 60 votes to pass. If it fails, the DREAM Act will be pulled from the floor. If it passes, there will be more votes on the DREAM Act as well as on possible amendments. The outcome of these votes will determine the fate of the DREAM Act for this Congress.

OUR RESPONSE MUST BE UNPRECEDENTED!

If you care at all about the future of DREAM Act students who have grown up here, then you must make your calls today and tomorrow, then forward this message, and then get on the phone to make sure that everyone you know does likewise. There will not be another chance.

CALL BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM: "PLEASE VOTE FOR THE DREAM ACT SO THAT IMMIGRANT STUDENTS BROUGHT HERE AS CHILDREN CAN REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL"

Your Senators' phone numbers are online: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_i ... rs_cfm.cfm

OR

CALL THE SENATE SWITCHBOARD 202-224-3121

To send an e-mail message to your Senators please go to: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/or ... _KEY=12129

Posted by CAUSA Communications Department at 12:15 PM

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why is this posted?

We want NO vote on the dream act.

Originally Posted by stealthwii

why is this posted?

We want NO vote on the dream act.

The best defense is a good offense.

R/ Skip

Originally Posted by Skip

Originally Posted by stealthwii

why is this posted?

We want NO vote on the dream act.

The best defense is a good offense.

R/ Skip

Hey skip maybe you should post a statement at the top of your article like ( THIS IS WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS UP TO EVERYONE.... MAKE YOUR CALLS AND TELL CONGRESS NO ON THE DREAM ACT)

It looks like you are advocating for the dream act ...

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Originally Posted by Skip

Originally Posted by stealthwii

why is this posted?

We want NO vote on the dream act.

The best defense is a good offense.

R/ Skip

Hey skip maybe you should post a statement at the top of your article like ( THIS IS WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS UP TO EVERYONE.... MAKE YOUR CALLS AND TELL CONGRESS NO ON THE DREAM ACT)

It looks like you are advocating for the dream act ...

OK ........

This is from the opposition
They and other pro Illegal Aliens Amnesty groups are going nuts over this....
and I thought it was dead........... at least for awhile .............

Must be the smoke .............

College Tuition Prices Continue to Rise

The cost of a year at college rose faster than inflation and financial aid again this year

By Kim Clark
Posted October 23, 2007

The cost of higher education continues to climb higher. Even after this year's increase in federal scholarships such as Pell grants, the price students pay out of pocket to attend a typical college this academic year is still around $500 more than last year, the College Board calculated in a report released Monday. And, it turns out, it's also taking students more time (and thus even more money) to earn those degrees.

After subtracting out scholarships and tax breaks, the net cost of spending this academic year at an in-state public college, including tuition, dorms, meals, books and transportation, is averaging $11,900, up 4.1 percent from last year, a rate that was 1.3 percentage points higher than general inflation, estimates College Board economist Sandy Baum. The College Board, a nonprofit association of colleges that oversees tests such as the SATs, surveyed colleges to get their 2007 prices. It estimated the amount of aid students received based on the previous year's data.

The College Board says its research can't fully explain why college prices keep rising faster than inflation. Tuition at a typical public university, for example, has risen almost 10-fold in the last 30 years, from $655 in 1977 to $6,185 this year. One partial explanation is declining government funding of public universities, said Baum, who is an economics professor at Skidmore University. While total state appropriations on higher education have been rising, they haven't been keeping up with booming enrollment, so the contribution per student today is lower than it was 20 years ago, Baum said.

College Board Chairman Gaston Caperton said another engine of inflation may also be students' rising standards of living. Dorm rooms and cafeterias are much nicer today than they were when he attended college, he said. But, he added, "of course, we're worried" about the continuing inflation and the danger that low-income students will be priced out of education.

The good news, however, is that many students who live at home and attend community colleges can still get an education at reasonable costs. After financial aid awards, they are paying an average net tuition cost of only $320 to carry a full course load. Adding $2,191 for books, supplies, and transportation brings the out-of-pocket costs for a year at the lowest-cost college option to $2,511. But even that that's still up 7 percent from last year.

Of course, thousands of students are paying much more because they don't get financial aid. About half of all undergraduates and one third of all full-time students don't get any scholarships to defray their costs. They pay the full advertised sticker price of schools. For example, the average all-in cost for a commuter who doesn't get any aid to attend a community college hit $4,550 this year, up 5.5 percent.

In-state residents who don't get any aid at public universities are paying about $15,500 this year, a rise of almost $900, or 6 percent. And full-price students at private colleges are paying about $34,000, up about $2,000, or 6.1 percent.

The rising one-year prices are only part of the shock awaiting parents. The College Board warns that it now takes the average public university student six years to complete a degree. Private school students are taking an average of five years. That means parents should budget at least $79,000 to get today's freshmen attending in-state public universities through graduation.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/business ... -rise.html