Operation Buck Up: Stop the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout
The obituary for the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout is premature.
You know this because I’ve been writing about the ceaseless push to pass this brazen shamnesty plan for years.
The Washington Post pronounced it “shelved” over the weekend.
Not so fast.
Via the Hill, the open-borders lobby is claiming momentum:
When House Democrats last week passed the DREAM Act before the Senate had staged its vote, the timing was no accident.
Instead, the chronology was part of a carefully designed strategy — orchestrated, with some tension, between the two chambers — to grant the proposal its greatest shot at success. The fast-evolving process required behind-the-scenes scheduling changes; an 11th hour hearing; constant lobbying from supporters; and a risky-but-successful show of procedural gymnastics in the Senate — all aimed at lending momentum to the hot-button bill in hopes of enacting it by month’s end.
In short, supporters say, the process has infused life into the policy.
“It actually gives us a chance to win,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, an advocacy group lobbying for the bill.
Adey Fisseha, policy attorney for the National Immigration Law Center, echoed that message. “It makes it real, and it increases the pressure,” Fisseha said. “They thought they had the votes. They wanted to lock it in. And they did.”
Indeed, had the Senate voted first, the bill likely would have failed, and the House would have lost its appetite to stage a vote at all, according to both supporters and critics of the proposal.
The DREAM Act zealots are targeting Senate Republicans with more protests and hunger strikes. Those Republicans need bucking up.
GOP Sen. Scott Brown has been steady in his opposition to all forms of illegal alien amnesty, but a supportive call (or two or three) would be helpful as he faces a pro-DREAM p.r. onslaught:
A coalition of advocates, educators and religious leaders have scheduled a press conference Monday at Boston City Hall to pressure the Massachusetts Republican to vote for the federal proposal.
Same with Sen. Hutchison:
WASHINGTON – A national Hispanic Republican organization denounced Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s opposition to the DREAM Act on Friday and warned that the stance may hurt her re-election prospects in 2012 should she decide to run.
“We are conservative Republicans who hold traditional military and social values,” the group Somos Republicans wrote in a letter to the senator. “We are troubled by the fact that you failed to recognize that Hispanics in Texas are overwhelmingly in support of the DREAM Act.”
Useful phone numbers for Operation Buck Up:
SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON 202-224-5922; 214-361-3500
SEN. SCOTT BROWN 202-224-4543
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN 202-224-2235; 480-897-6289
SEN. OLYMPIA SNOWE 202-224-5344; 207-874-0883
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI 202-224-6665; 907-271-3735
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS 202-224-2523; 207-945-0417
SEN. SAM BROWNBACK 202-224-6521; 785-233-2503
While you’re at it, you might want to put in a special phone call to retiring open-borders Utah GOP Sen. Bob Bennett (good riddance) and ask him to name names of the Republicans who support massive, costly illegal alien amnesties that undermine immigration enforcement and put law-breaking workers and students ahead of law-abiding ones. Do tell:
Outgoing Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) said Friday he’s privately discussed the prospect that Republicans would pursue their own version of the DREAM Act next year.
Bennett said he would vote for the immigration legislation, which gives immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children a conditional pathway to citizenship, if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) brought it to the floor under the right conditions.
If that fails, the outgoing senator said, Republicans have privately discussed the prospects of writing and passing a version of the DREAM Act that could make its way through Congress.
“Now, I know a lot of my colleagues are not happy to vote for it, and I don’t think the votes … are there to pass it in this Congress,” Bennett said in his final conference call with Utah reporters. “And as I’ve talked, particularly to my Republican friends, I’ve said we really need to do this. Their reaction has been to me, privately, ‘You’re right. We do really need to do it.’”
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I wonder if Alaska is regretting giving Murky the senate seat yet.
Riiiiight.
Same old GOP, and Boehner cries again on “60 Minutes” last night (is that guy mentally disturbed or something?).
This is symptomatic of the deep differences between Republicans and Conservatives! Your list of Republicans, coupled with the ouster of Michael Steele shows that conservatives truly need to form a third party and leave the mushy middle to try to get money out of the people who really don’t care much about politics. Steele is being tossed because we conservatives DIDN’T send money to the RNC this past cycle, but instead sent our money to conservative candidates directly. It would appear the mushy Rino sect didn’t fund the RNC either, but that’s because they have no core beliefs worth funding and fighting for. So we will end up with another “compassionate conservative” RINO as RNC chair, and we conservatives still won’t support the RNC and without conservative votes and money, the blue dog democrats/rino republicans will lose in the primaries and we will be picking candidates between liberals and conservatives. Murky may be able to get the Alaskan welfare vote, and McCain may be able to fool a lot of people in Arizona who are gullible enough to believe that a 1600 sq foot home in the f’ing deasert is worth $400k, but the tide is turning rapidly. The mushy middle lost last month, and while some conservatives in very blue states lost, the conservatives did way better than the rinos and blue dog democrats.
this is the same GOP whose newt gingrich sat on a couch with pelosi and warned about “climate change”; the same GOP that sucks mccain’s man parts whenever he’s feeling mavericky. The best we can hope for when our tea party reps get in office is repeal!!
A faint-a ruse. As when the Parthians would start to retreat and lure their enemy into the open only to greet them with a rain of arrows.
Hunger strikes? Not my problem.
A national Hispanic Republican organization? That is a problem-theirs. Those “Republican Hispanics” who are concerned with Mexico First should join the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) . If they had any cajones they would do so openly.
Elections have consequences? Not if we keep electing one coward to replaced another they don’t. La Raza and the street gangs are well represented-sadly we aren’t.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Resistance is mandatory
The Dream Act: The whole idea of giving preference to illegal aliens over American citizens is INSANE!
Rather than spending taxpayer dollars on this nonsense, how about spending it on securing our Southern borders before narco-gang inspired genocide becomes commonplace in our country? The Mexican narco-gangs have no problem morally, in killing their own people, so how do you think they will treat gringos, whom we know they have little, to no regard?
Do Tea Party blogs and H.Q. have that phone list? The membership acts like the word never got out.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
1 Employed illegal = 1 black American on Welfare + resultant social consequences.
That is if they don’t get seduced and co-opted by the “good ol’ boy” club that currently maintains the leadership positions……
#1 On December 13th, 2010 at 9:38 am, ErinF said:
The next chairman of the RNC needs to be the one who states that Murkowski will not be allowed to caucus with the Republicans, she will not have permission to use the word “Republican” on any official correspondence, and she will never again receive any funding any national Republican organization.
I DREAM of a world without Liberal thieves.
Will Murkowski be listed as a Republican? Independent?
Hey cool it you bastage (hat tip to Cheddar). John worked as a custodian to put himself through college. It was a traumatic time. He wants better for the children of illegals.
It is hard to figure out who to trust right now. A call to both Hutchison and Cornyn reveal they are supposed to vote for cloture on the current tax rates today. They do not know the amount of additional spending but according to Kay’s office it will be close to $1 trillion. They do not know the sponsors of the spending as the language they are to vote on has yet to be released. Hot Air headlines says 60-70 senators are on board but these two say they have not made a decision.
It appears to me the dems and a few republicans are loading this thing up for one more grab at our kids prosperity. If they can’t get a clean bill that speaks directly to the issue this congress has avoided for the entire year I say shut down this congress and start over next year.
Basil Fawlty: You’ll have to forgive him. He’s from Barcelona.
Worse, Mario Cino (Conservative In Name Only?) was the primary lobbyist for Pfizer and a major advocate for Cap and Trade. That is why Karl Rove’s American Crossroads is pushing hard for her.
(How many commenters here really miss Bush yet? Really? Seriously)
No. You don’t.
There is already a ‘path to citizenship’. It’s called ‘go back to your home country and get in the back of the line’.
If the R’s did as much caniving(sp?) and backroom dealmaking as the D’s to get this passed, the LSM would be all over it like stink on poo.
Us C’s have so many fronts to fight:
D’s
Media
RINO’s
Old dog R’s
Deaf-n-Blind R’s
And …..
From NumbersUSA:
Full Article and online Anti-Amnesty fax to Congress HERE
This is it in a nutshell. The RINOs want to claim credit for amnesty.
We are living through the movie “Groundhog Day“. Doing the same thing Over and Over again until they get it wrong!
Question of the day-
Do US congresspeople represent the citizens of the US or the invading army?
I’m starting to think they are the invading army.
Ah, but you repeat yourself.
They are, at least, the 5th column.
The representatives we have elected are more concerned about citizens of other countries who are in our country illegally than about U.S. citizens.
We must correct this while we still have a country.
Are you listening AZ?
Why do they bother. Whatever the DIABLOS try to do in groveling to a perceived Dem bloc, the Dems will make sure the Dems themselves get the credit.
Pass or fail, take names of Yes votes.
The list will come in handy in 2012.
@#27…you bet take names and then start working on their pink slips…
Any mushy-headed liberal who feels sorry for illegal alien “children” (up to age 35, with no written proof needed), I propose they fund their education in the student’s HOME COUNTRY – and then they can stay in their home country, work hard, contribute to their HOME country’s economy! Win – win!!
DO NOT TAKE MY TAX MONEY AND SUBSIDIZE ILLEGAL FOREIGN INVADERS, WHO WILL DISPLACE AMERICAN CITIZENS! OUTRAGEOUS!
Once again. If they get this ‘citizenship’, then lets annex the effing country. All the way to the narrowest tip of the Yucatan. Would make an easier place to build fence.
Tip should have been part. Oops.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.- Mark Twain
and a new favorite quote from Mark Twain: It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
[All of a sudden, Don Corleone rises from his chair and gives Boehner a savage shake]
Don Corleone: YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!
[gives a quick slap to Boehner]
Don Corleone: What’s the matter with you? Is this what you’ve become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? “Oh, what do I do? What do I do?” What is that nonsense? Ridiculous!
How true.
If they don’t reap the benefits of the DREAM act, believe me, something will be worked out. The way Mexico is devolving into drug lord rule and chaos nationwide, watch for TEH WON’s administration to take advantage of such chaos and “invade” Mexico to deal with the drug lords, while offering permanent refugee status to the 100s of thousands if not millions swarming across the border to escape.
As another blog mentioned, Mexico will be our next Afghanistan….much sooner than we think.
We need Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, not reform. We need to restore respect for the law and the faith of the American people that their government is not selling them out. Amnesty for the illegal aliens is also amnesty for the corrupt companies who have been employing them. Money trumps everything, including love of country. Multi-nationals have no loyalty to country by definition, they see us as a market, not a nation. They see people as workers, documented or undocumented, no difference. If they can’t send the work to where the labor is cheaper, then they want to bring the cheap labor here. If citizenship becomes meaningless, this is no longer The United States of America.
If we love our Constitution and our representative Republic and we intend to keep it we must not surrender our sovereignty or abandon the rule of law. Profits must not supercede security. We should not create a new path to citizenship. We have a path to citizenship, more generous than any other country, illegal aliens have ignored it and bad choices do have consequences.
We have become a nation of compromisers. We have laws against drugs, we don’t enforce them because it’s too hard or expensive. We have laws against prostitution, we don’t enforce them because ditto. We have laws against illegal immigration, we don’t ditto. We have laws against voter fraud, we ditto. We have laws against murder, but if you are a hollywood movie star, the punishment is a fine. Believe me, we have enough laws, we really need some enforcement of those laws. Our police only enforce laws carrying monetary penalties like speeding, and the cities have put up cameras to do the cops job, so why are we still paying cops and their ludicrous pensions? Our nation is being run by the lunatics in the asylum, and every special interest group and cause has lawyers and judges on staff to promote that cause.
This explains why the priest at our parish mentioned the DREAM Act during his homily and urged parishioners to take a flier at the back of church and get informed on the facts. Thinking the act was already dead, I was only mildly annoyed by this blatant politics from the pew. BTW, our parish is primarily Irish Catholics with less than one percent Hispanic parishioners. I wonder if this push for the DREAM act was played out in all left leaning parishes.
I know the type that mock ‘old white guys’. My sister is a raving liberal, who works at a university and decided to live a lesbian lifestyle.
Everytime she talks about ‘old white guys’, she refers to them as red-necks and thinks that is suppose to be insulting.
The left has no respect for anyone who doesn’t obey their philosophies.
Sorry, posted in the wrong thread, meant it to be posted regarding UCLA prof.
Yes.
It sickens me how ‘social justice’ has infiltrated the Church.
In my mind, obeying the law and observing the borders is ‘giving unto Caesar what is Caesar’s’.
The murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is all the justification needed to stop the DREAM act. The border is not secure –don’t even think about any amnesty for any illegal when the cartels are bringing their wars to the US. AMERICA FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS!!
Reid:202-224-3542 Fx 202-224-7327
He gave in once push– the jerk until he buckles again!