[Pacg] Call your Senate offices re the DREAM Act today!!

[Carolina 1961]

>From Cathy Bolkcom:
cbarts4 at aol.com

* THIS IS NOT A DRILL!*
*SENATE VOTE ON* DREAM ACT
*AS EARLY AS WEDNESDAY! *

****IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED****

*YOU AND YOUR NETWORKS NEED TO FLOOD SENATE OFFICES WITH PHONE CALLS, FAXES
AND EMAILS TODAY!!!!!*
*Wednesday, OCTOBER 23, 2007*

*TELL SENATORS TO VOTE FOR S. 2205 THE DREAM ACT!!!*

* ACT TODAY!!!*

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

IT IS IMPERATIVE FOR ALL DREAM ACT SUPPORTERS TO CALL YOUR SENATORS, send an
e-mail message and fax them.
*SHUTDOWN THE SENATE SWITCHBOARD WITH YOUR CALLS!*

*CALL 202-**224-3121*
*DON'T LET THE ANTI-DREAM CALLERS BEAT US THIS TIME!*

Last week, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard
Lugar (R-IN) quietly 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.
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*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.

*THE FIRST STEP IS PASSAGE OF THE "CLOTURE" MOTION, MOST LIKELY ON
WEDNESDAY. * *We recognize that this is not the first time this year that we
have punched the alarm bell, but THIS IS NOT A DRILL!* Word is already
getting out about the vote on anti-immigrant websites, talk shows, and cable
TV who are spreading their usual falsehoods, and there is little doubt that
their angry and fearful base will respond.

*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, 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 *
here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=egWE8XQik5aATujxQ1xgoqbQ%2BruvwpSC>
*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/organizationsORG/NILC/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12129<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iwW2ArNvTASRfcVRBdqcOabQ%2BruvwpSC>
*

*What else you can do:*

   - Forward this message to every listserv and everyone you know
   - Post it on blogs, MySpace, Facebook, or other on-line networking
   tools
   - Call in to C-SPAN or other radio or television shows where there is
   some hope of a sympathetic audience (not anti-immigrant propaganda sites)


*The DREAM Act in Brief:*
*The DREAM Act is narrowly tailored*

It would apply only to individuals brought to the U.S. at least 5 years ago
as children, who have grown up here (but are still under 30 years old), and
who have remained in school and out of trouble.  They could get a green card
6 years after graduating from high school if during that time they continue
on to college or serve in the military.
*The DREAM Act is not a "mini-amnesty"*

At its core, amnesty is forgiveness for wrongdoing. That does not apply to
DREAM Act students who were all brought here years ago as children. The
DREAM Act rewards them for staying in school or serving our country.
*The DREAM Act would benefit taxpayers*

The DREAM Act would provide hope to immigrant students and lead many more of
them to remain in school. As an example of the fiscal benefits of this, 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.
This amounts to an annual fiscal benefit of over $9,000 per person every
year, money that can be used to pay for the education of other children.
State and local taxpayers have already invested in the education of these
children in elementary and secondary school and deserve to get a return on
their investment

You can find more information about the DREAM Act
here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HTREdNmEHXGA%2B73H9JytTKbQ%2BruvwpSC>

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most important differences from the earlier version are that S. 2205 would
not apply to individuals who, on the date of enactment, are over 30 years
old, and it would not delete a provision of federal law that places
conditions on states that provide in-state tuition to undocumented
immigrants.


Thanks,

Cath

*Let us find health and vigor and hope, and the diseased portion of the
earth will fall behind of its own doing. For that we need no aggressive
strategic plans, no provocation of military hostilities, no showdowns. *George
Kennan
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