Shamnesty Watch: Act on the DREAM Act
Here’s the latest. Numbers USA says the Senate “will resume consideration of H.R. 1585, the Defense Department authorization bill for fiscal year 2008, at 10:30 a.m” today…
The floor vote on the amendment containing the DREAM Act amnesty — new number: SA 2919 — may occur tomorrow. It will take 41 NO votes to kill this amnesty. Currently, only 20 Senators are telling their constituents that they will vote NO on the amnesty.
The Senate switchboard number again is 202-224-3121.
Grassfire.org reports a tsunami of faxes flooding the Capitol in opposition to the DREAM Act.
John Hawkins gathers intel from a Hill source.
Illegal alien students are coming out of the shadows to lobby, via the NYTimes:
In coordinated action, high school and college students who support the Senate measure staged “teach-ins” and visited lawmakers’ offices today in Florida, Idaho, New York, Oregon and Wisconsin. Twenty illegal immigrant students from California came to Washington to lobby for the bill, dressed in white coats and business suits to signify the medical and legal careers they hope to pursue. They held a news conference offering only their first names.
Investor’s Business Daily weighs in against this bad DREAM:
It gives aliens who entered this country before the age of 16, and who have successfully evaded the law for five years, conditional green-card status that can later be converted to a regular green card. Then it can be used to seek green cards for the parents who brought their child here illegally.
That this amounts to back-door amnesty is borne out by the legislation’s lack of an upper age limit for an illegal alien to apply. Any alien of any age can simply queue up at the nearest Customs and Immigration office and declare that he or she was here illegally before reaching 16. No documentation or proof is required.It also allows illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates at public universities, discriminating against legal foreign students and children of U.S. citizens from other states. When she supported similar legislation as part of the failed comprehensive immigration reform package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “Our country does not benefit by depriving young people of an education.” Does that include the children of U.S. citizens?
True, children of illegal aliens didn’t get a vote when their parents chose to enter the U.S. illegally. But our country does not benefit when its laws are ignored or its citizens are denied the same benefits available to those who have sneaked past the Border Patrol.
Durbin’s legislation repeals a 1996 law that bars any state from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens who have gotten by a Border Patrol agent unless the children of that agent are also offered the same opportunity. After all, should illegal aliens in a state get preference over, say, the children of 9/11 victims?
Title 8, Chapter 14, Sec. 1623 clearly states that “an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a state . . . for any post-secondary education benefit unless a citizen or national is eligible for such a benefit.” Durbin’s legislation speaks only of benefiting “alien minors.”Ten states (California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Utah, Texas and Washington) have their own versions of DREAM. The financial benefits of these programs to illegal aliens are as great as the penalty imposed on U.S. citizens.
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It’s going to pass. The right have ignored this in favor of OJ, Rather, and other silly fluff. Most blogs have zero coverage of this legislation.
And when it passes, we lose the whole ballgame.
the rights of the citizens are being depleted in order to provide ‘rights’ to those here illegally. taxation without representation sound familiar? we need to stop this now….
“On September 20th, 2007 at 10:27 am, flenser said: It’s going to pass. The right have ignored this in favor of OJ, Rather, and other silly fluff.”
I wouldn’t say it is the right ignoring it as much as I would say it is the ‘media’ that has decided what they will present to the public. I have read other blogs regarding this issue and received many activist emails.
I say we let it pass and then organize a lawsuit against any state that does pass it. I’d love to sue for all the money we’ve spend on my wife’s out of state tuition costs in CA state universities. Nothing like free money.
Nothing at all at NRO or Hugh Hewitt, both of which played a big role the last time around. It does not even get top billing here. It is being largely ignored by the big blogs on the right. I don’t know if talk radio is on the case, but I suspect not.
But you can find out all about Adhmadinejad’s trip to New York.
With all due respect to Grassfire, I think they need to reconsider the fee they are charging for sending faxes. I elected to pick up the phone and call my senator Brownback and urge him to vote against the dream act and why. It didn’t cost me anything other than as part of my unlimited long distance calling plan. I realize Grassfire deserves to cover their expenses, but why pay for faxes when we can pick up a phone and do the same thing?
That said, get on the phone or if you choose to use Grassfire, do that but DO SOMETHING.
I guess I finally figured it out, from a democrats standpoint. If you can violate a law, and not get caught at it, like, fundraising, losing documents, getting across the border, for at least some small time, then the law doesn’t apply to you and yours. You may then violate other laws at will.
p.s. MY Senators from Georgia have stated they will NOT vote for this outrage.
South Carolina is NO also.
Thank God for that. Graham finally saw the light.
Like the final days of Rome…
Nothing for it. The government is too corrupt to reach, and the sheeple are too slow to catch on.
And the cycle continues, Fox News reporting that a cop was murdered by an Illegal Invader.
Absolutely NO coverage in NC on local media outlets.
When Dole/Burr are from this state, why is no one mentioning it….it’s not even in the papers!
The media is liberal for the most part.
I want these same embeciles to complain WHEN their kids don’t get fair treatment.
Our Congress…at least most of them….are as crooked as you can get.
Those that vote in favor of yet another ludicrous freebie should resign or better yet……IMPEACHED.
Can they?????
I read about the cop in Phoenix being shot in the face and killed for stopping an illegal invader who had been deported once for J-walking. The invader grabbed a hostage and was caught about an hour later and gunned down when he threatened to shot the hostage. Nice shooting by the Phoenix PD did not hit the hostage and sent the illegal invader to his just reward. May he roast in hell forever!
Also heard a statement this morning getting ready for work on Fox News this was being laid in the lap of the administration for their failure to control the illegal invasion of our borders. We are quickly reaching a tipping point where we will have to do what the Government refuses to do for us. If they continue to violate Article IV Section IV of the US Constitution we will no other choice.
I too believe they are going to smoke this by us. The MSM has kept this really quite and can’t understand why more conservative blogs and talk radio aren’t blasting this out.
It hasn’t had time to permeate, which was obviously why the scum in DC are doing it this way, they slipped it in so that the opposition can’t build momentum.
We can hope that either this thing fails miraculously, or the reaction to it is nasty enough that it backfires and they backpedal or the amnesty lot gets voted out, those are really all I’m seeing as options at this point.
They pass it at their peril. This is one bill Americans aren’t going to forget. I don’t see them getting 60 Senators, or the majority of the House, to sign-on to political suicide.
According to NumbersUSA, Allard and Cornyn are telling callers that they will oppose the bill, but are not willing to go on the record with that.
I’ve also heard that Domenici said he will vote against it. Can anyone confirm that?
I have made phone calls and have sent faxes on this issue. Kit Bond yesterday went into the NO column. Clair McCaskill’s offices keep telling me that she is not going to vote for it, but she has not publicly so stated. Because of that, I have wasted time this morning contacting her yet again.
I haven’t had time to look at the entirety of my blog list, so I wasn’t aware of how little this is being covered on right blogs. That is really sad. This fight needs to be fought every single time it rears it’s head.
It’s quite bizarre. I have to wonder if some donors with deep pockets have leaned on National Review to stay away from this. Even Mark Krikorian is silent.
Neither Webb nor Warner would commit. Meanwhile, I sent an email to my favorite Local News Station (NBC4 in DC, as I like their Sports and Weather coverage) to ask if they knew about this and, if so, why they haven’t reported it. Not holding my breath.
Colorado is half-assed.
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Allard in for NO vote.
.
Salazar is the ass half.
Back to phones…calling all states now.
We really need to fight this one HARD. Why? Because…
a) no one else is.
b) we can’t let them think they can get away with these tactics (disguised bill, under the radar, distractions in the news, worn out voters from the last fight).
My strategy for ratcheting it up a notch is to hold the entire party responsible.
Right on down to the lower house. Right on down to the state and local level. Right on down to the college young republicans.
Let them know that they can’t get away with blaming a few “rogue” senators. Or the Senate. Or Congress. Or Jorge. They are ALL going to be held accountable for this.
Fair? No. But I am fed up with the GOP. I am way too young to need to be worrying about my blood pressure.
I sent a threatening (politically) email to the GOP party officials here:
Chairman@gop.com, Info@gop.com, Administration@gop.com, Counsel@gop.com, Political@gop.com, Finance@gop.com, MemberRelations@gop.com, ecampaign@gop.com
You can copy that into the TO: field of your email program/webmail if you wish. Two of the addresses bounced with odd errors (too many hops) but I guess that means the rest made it through.
I am going to try harvesting the email addresses for the GOP officials at the state level as well. Meanwhile, if someone can figure out a way to submit one web form to multiple pages we can bombard all the Republican senators as well.
I’ve forwarded MM’s articles and links to everyone in my address book. Have written several senators. Received four(4) very lengthy responses by their staffers. Two dems and two repubs responded. No matter the difference in wording, they all said the exact same thing. Odd? Coincidence? Or, are both parties on the same page on this travesty?
Here are as many as I could get.
Remeber: It’s not going to do a bit of good if I’m the only one doing this. If you didn’t help last time, the least you can do is take 10 or 15 minutes to let the entire Republican party know that they can’t get away with this.
algop@algop.org, rpa@acsalaska.net, asgop@mail.com, info@azgop.org, webmaster@cagop.org, office@ctgop.org, admin@delawaregop.org, info@dcgop.com, webmaster@rpof.org, info@gagop.org, headquarters@gophawaii.com, info@ilgop.org, newsroom@indgop.org, iowagop@iowagop.org, republicanparty@ksgop.org, kygop@rpk.org, mainegop@mainegop.com, press@mdgop.org, info@massgop.com, elephant_ear@migop.org, info@mngop.com, info@msgop.org,
info@mogop.org, mtgop@mtgop.com, info@negop.org, info@nevadagop.org, info@nhgop.org, info@njgop.org, administrator@rpnm.org, Nygop@global2000.net, email@ncgop.org, info@ndgop.org, dpwpio@vzpacifica.net, okgop@okgop.com, info@orgop.org, info@pagop.org, contact@rigop.org, chairman@scgop.com, administrator@southdakotagop.com, feedback@tngop.org, info@texasgop.org, info@utgop.org, vtgop@vtgop.org, info@rpv.org, luke@wsrp.org, wvgop@wvgop.org, hq@wisgop.org, wygop@coffey.com
Here are the national ones, minus the two addresses that bounced:
Chairman@gop.com, Info@gop.com, Administration@gop.com, Counsel@gop.com, Political@gop.com, Finance@gop.com, MemberRelations@gop.com, ecampaign@gop.com
More stuff to do:
To contact national senators, go here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=party&Sort=ASC
and fill in a web form to send email indirectly.
Send a free fax via the web, just fill in a form:
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxcenter?action=preview&ID=8792
You’re not alone.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Back atcha YP.
Found email addresses for two senators:
Shelby, Richard C.- (R - AL)
E-mail: senator@shelby.senate.gov
Lugar, Richard G.- (R - IN)
E-mail: senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov
Lugar is voting yes. I’m not sure about Shelby.
I’m going to try to guess the email addresses of the rest. They seem to follow a pattern.
If you’re looking for their email addresses, follow this link
The disgrace of this is that - at the heart - most of the Republican Senators are PRO amnesty. Like the Democrat fascists, they don’t give a rip about what the people want. There’s an agenda they are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure it’s accomplished.
If we are ever to preserve any small remnant of “America,” drastic action is required. Flooding the phones, email boxes, and fax machines is never going to be enough to change things. No matter what we oppose; no matter how destructive it is; no matter how vocal we are; the politicians are ultimately going to do what’s best for them, not what’s best for the nation.
The list to target, from NumbersUSA.
Alaska: Murkowski, Stevens
Arkansas: Pryor
Florida: Martinez
Idaho: Crapo
Indiana: Bayh
Iowa: Grassley, Harkin
Kansas: Brownback
Louisiana: Landrieu
Maine: Collins
Michigan: Stabenow
Minnesota: Coleman
Mississippi: Cochran
Missouri: McCaskill
Montana: Baucus, Tester
Nebraska: Nelson (Ben)
Nevada: Ensign
New Hampshire: Sununu
New Mexico: Bingaman, Domenici
North Dakota: Dorgan
Ohio: Brown, Voinovich
Oregon: Smith
South Dakota: *Johnson
Texas: Cornyn; Hutchison
Utah: Hatch
Vermont: Sanders
Virginia: Warner, Webb
West Virginia: Byrd, Rockefeller
Wyoming: Barrasso
All of these need to be called or emailed.
Yup. Maybe in the next cycle we can make some improvements. If we can get pro-American senators in for Hagle, Warner, Craig, and Graham, that would send some sort of message.
Not nominating another open borders President might be a good idea also. But one thing at a time.
Here are all the Senate email addresses that didn’t bounce immediately.
senator@Allard.senate.gov,senator@Bennett.senate.gov,senator@Cochran.senate.gov,senator@DeMint.senate.gov,senator@Graham.senate.gov,senator@shelby.senate.gov,senator@Warner.senate.gov,
senator_Allard@Allard.senate.gov,senator_Cochran@Cochran.senate.gov,senator_Collins@Collins.senate.gov,senator_DeMint@DeMint.senate.gov,senator_Grassley@Grassley.senate.gov,senator_Hatch@Hatch.senate.gov,senator_Lott@Lott.senate.gov,senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov,senator_McCain@McCain.senate.gov,senator_Sessions@Sessions.senate.gov,senator_Warner@Warner.senate.gov,
I also pruned the GOP email addresses:
algop@algop.org, rpa@acsalaska.net, asgop@mail.com, info@azgop.org, info@dcgop.com, webmaster@rpof.org, info@gagop.org, headquarters@gophawaii.com, info@ilgop.org, newsroom@indgop.org, iowagop@iowagop.org, republicanparty@ksgop.org, mainegop@mainegop.com, press@mdgop.org, info@massgop.com, info@mngop.com, info@msgop.org,
info@mogop.org, mtgop@mtgop.com, info@negop.org, info@nevadagop.org, info@njgop.org, email@ncgop.org, info@ndgop.org, dpwpio@vzpacifica.net, okgop@okgop.com, info@orgop.org, info@pagop.org, contact@rigop.org, chairman@scgop.com, administrator@southdakotagop.com, feedback@tngop.org, info@texasgop.org, info@utgop.org, vtgop@vtgop.org, info@rpv.org, luke@wsrp.org, wvgop@wvgop.org, wygop@coffey.com
Chairman@gop.com, Info@gop.com, Administration@gop.com, Counsel@gop.com, Political@gop.com, Finance@gop.com, MemberRelations@gop.com, ecampaign@gop.com
I don’t know how many (if any) of those addresses are actually being read anymore. If you want to make sure they get it, go here and use the web form for each individual senator.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Calling or faxing is better anyway, this is just for people (like me) who want to bombard the entire party at once.
Okay, I’m finished now.
Excellent work Y Prime. Thank you! I have tried to do my part although I haven’t been as energetic as you.
Still faxing away…
C’mon Kay Baily, smell the coffee already. This is embarrassing!
Found this on American Renaissance: