Reid Plans DREAM Act Vote for Lame-Duck! Call Your Senators & Representatives Now, NO AMNESTY!!

Reid Plans DREAM Act Vote for Lame-Duck! Overnight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on his Twitter account that he will bring the DREAM Act to the floor during the lame-duck session of Congress.  Reid remarked, “It's good for the economy & Pentagon says good for [national] security.” (Politico, Nov. 17, 2010)  Almost simultaneously, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced two new versions of the DREAM Act (S.3962, S.3963), and then, by invoking Rule 14—which allows leaders to skip the committee process—put them directly on the Senate floor calendar. Sen. Reid’s actions come on the heels of Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairwoman Rep. Nydia Velazquez’s (D-NY) announcement that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tentatively set a vote on the DREAM Act for as soon as November 29th, and President Obama’s statement that he wants the DREAM Act passed during lame-duck as a “down payment” for further amnesty bills. (Capital Wire PR, Nov. 16, 2010; Politico, Nov. 17, 2010) Call your SENATORS and your REPRESENTATIVES NOW and tell them that you want our immigration laws enforced, not another amnesty that encourages more illegal immigration. Tell them: The DREAM Act rewards those who broke U.S. immigration laws and only encourages more illegal immigration; The DREAM Act unfairly allows illegal alien students to tap federal and state benefits, when those benefits are desperately needed by Americans who are struggling every day to make ends meet. The open borders lobby is counting on you to be distracted during the Thanksgiving holiday so that they can pass this amnesty bill as soon as Congress returns! Please act now and continue to reach out to your Senators and Representatives next week while they are home in their districts. If you don’t take action, the only voices they will hear will be the ones that support amnesty, open borders, and immigration policies that serve special interests, not the interests of Americans. To find the phone numbers of your Senators, click here.  To find the phone numbers of your Representatives, click here.  Look for an update on all the action regarding the DREAM Act in Monday’s Legislative Update…

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