‘Dream Act’ Amnesty Back! Five actions you can take now
March 30, 2009
‘Dream Act’ Amnesty for Illegal Alien Teens Is Back!
Sens. Reid, Durbin, et al, Reveal Their Plans, and We’d Better Move Fast to Stop Them
(Plus, several new actions, and one more giving challenge this month)
Hi! It’s Jim again, speaking for Roy and the rest of our NumbersUSA team.
This is your Action Alert on the new Dream Act crisis, so please read it all. There are several actions at the end of the letter. Please do each of them today.
Late last week we learned several pieces of our opponents’ strategy for this year:
The Los Angeles Times reported that foundations controlled by billionaire George Soros and others have put together an $18 million war chest to push through a GENERAL AMNESTY this year.
The “Dream Act” amnesty for illegal alien high school grads has been reintroduced. The open borders crowd expects this least offensive (to some people) amnesty to break NumbersUSA’s eight-year perfect record on defeating amnesties.
An aide to Harry Reid told the Los Angeles Times that the fix is in: “comprehensive immigration reform,” which we know to contain a GENERAL AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS will be brought to the floor of the Senate this Fall. So you see, they are hoping to amnesty the kids with “Dream Act,” then follow up by amnestying their parents, aunts, and acquaintances, a few months later.
Michael, it’s obvious that if we don’t “up our game,” we’re going to “get rolled.”
First, a big thank you to those who helped us make our goal of 2,000 donations weekend before last. But take a glance at the thermometer graphic and you’ll see we still have a ways to go just to maintain our usual level of leadership and activism.
So if you haven’t made a gift to NumbersUSA lately, please donate now! We really need your financial help to defeat these amnesties.
Let me remind you about the “Dream Act.” It’s an amnesty for illegal aliens who graduate from high school in the U.S. The immigration grievance lobbies argue that it wasn’t the fault of these kids that their parents brought them illegally into this country. Therefore, they say, these young people should be given an automatic path to citizenship, in-state tuition at universities, and the whole galaxy of other social benefits that only citizens are entitled to.
We object strongly! Every time someone is rewarded for breaking the law, bad things result. First, millions more persons will be tempted to illegally cross our borders, and bring their children with them. Secondly, government resources are scarce. Every subsidized slot at a state university given to an illegal alien is one less we ultimately will be able to give to a current American citizen.
The open borders lobby believed two years ago that the “Dream Act” garnered too much sympathy to fail. Well, it did fail—we defeated it soundly several times. But, last Friday, Sens. Dick Durbin and Richard Lugar introduced it afresh into the Senate.
We expect a huge, expensive struggle on this. The other side only lost by eight votes last time. Since then, the election has added several new open borders votes to the Senate. Frankly, the only way we can defeat this amnesty this year will be if every one of our activists sends all their faxes, makes all their phone calls, and contributes financially to our struggle.
I said I’d give several To-Do Action items at the end of this message. Here they are:
1) Go to your Action Buffet and send all the Faxes to Congress and the President you see there. This is hugely important. Don’t wait a minute.
2) Read all the details about the “Dream Act” threat on the NumbersUSA website. Some of our activists only read emails from us and don’t go to our Home Page. Only on the NumbersUSA web site will you see the in depth news and extended analysis by Roy Beck and others.
3) If you haven’t made a financial contribution lately, please donate now. You’ve already read that the other side has raised an $18 million war chest to defeat us on total amnesty. Needless to say, we don’t have that kind of big money funding us. We’re totally dependent on the activism and financial donations of our members to send your faxes and bang down the doors of Congress.
4) Have you signed our brand-new Petition to President Obama? This is new, different from the one several months ago. It’s important you sign it and submit the name of friends, so we can send the petition to them as well. As many of you have commented to us, we need to double our band of committed citizens.
5) Did you know you can affix your handwritten signature to every fax NumbersUSA sends for you? If you send us your handwritten signature using this special form, we will electronically add it to every fax you send, making them much more powerful when they arrive at Congress. (No other organization anywhere provides this service—please take advantage of it! If you are one of the several thousand who have already sent in your signature, you’re set already!)
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