I Have Got To Be Dreaming
March 30th, 2009 by 
Kevin
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Surely our Congress critters aren\’t this insistent upon flaunting the will of the American public? Yeah, that\’s right, the DREAM Act has been introduced yet again in Congress, with bi-partisan support. Despite the fact that the public has responded with overwhelming opposition every other time it\’s been brought up, it\’s still dragged out for another shot.
It\’s been introduced in both the Senate (S 729) and the House (HR 1751). It\’s Republican supporters are Senators Lugar and Martinez. It\’s time to once again remind the inmates that apparently run this asylum, that when we said we didn\’t want the DREAM Act the first 200 times we actually meant it. Seriously, not kidding. So first things last, how you get involved, and THEN I\’ll tell you why you should get involved.
Pick up your phone, your Congress Critters need to hear from you ASAP.
Senator Klobuchar – 202-224-3244
Representative Michelle Bachmann – 202-225-2331
Representative Keith Ellison – 202-225-4755
Representative John Kline – 202-225-2271
Representative Betty McCollum – 202-225-6631
Representative James Oberstar – 202-225-6211
Representative Erik Paulsen – 202-225-2871
Representative Collin Peterson – 202-225-2165
Representative Tim Walz – 202-225-2472
If you’ve never made a call or aren’t sure what to say, I’ll spell it out for you.
Hi, my name is xxxxxxx yyyyyyy, and I live in Minnesota. I’m calling about bill S. 729 or H1751, the DREAM Act, and I would like to ask Senator Klobuchar/Representative ???? to please vote against this bill of amnesty. Thank you.
It’s really that simple. Depending on the Congress Critter’s office and/or the staffer, they may ask your city or zip code or may just say thank you. Now if you want to say more you can, but BE POLITE! Passions run wild and emotions get high. You may think the Senator/Representative would be a perfect outlet for those statements, but remember, you’re talking to a staffer who has already talked to hundreds of people like you.
Now….about those bills. The actual text of either bill isn\’t yet available, but past revisions of the DREAM Act have all been pretty similiar and have included the following:
Amnesty – Basically any illegal immigrant can claim he was brought into the country before a certain age and they get amnesty. Generally no checks are required to actually verify this information, so presumably simply a signed statement is enough. And there is generally no age limit, so you could be 80 years old and claim to have been brought in by your parents 65 years ago. Some educational requirements have typically come with this in order to preserve the feel-good aspect of the legislation, but those requirements have been so broad and/or vague as to be pretty much non-existent.
Free Instate-Tuition – It provides in-state tuition for illegal aliens at public universities. We don’t even provide in-state tuition to most American citizens from other states. In a nutshell, you are giving foreign students an advantage over American students, and putting illegal aliens on a fast track to citizenship over legal aliens who have played by the rules. So while your son/daughter is struggling to afford college, your tax dollars are being used to pay for some 30-year old illegal alien to attend college just look enough to exploit a loophole.
Chain Migration – Once a student is amnestied they can take advantage of what\’s called \”Chain Migration\”. Basically they earn the right to legally bring in their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousin\’s roommate\’s sister\’s best friend\’s babysitter, etc etc etc. Which is why border enforcement activists have so vigorously opposed the DREAM Act, it\’s really a broad amnesty under the guise of a feel-good educational program.
Summary – So basically in a time of high unemployment, we\’re going to flood the job market with illegal aliens who will compete with real Americans. In a time of huge deficits at all level of government, we\’re gonna to take on the additional cost of paying for the education of illegal aliens.
Sounds like a great plan huh??
No, then you know what to do…I told you at the top of this post.
[Crossposted at True North]
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5 Comments »
March 31st, 2009 at 5:20 am
Such irony. When I filled out the FAFSA to find out how much my family is expected to pay for our kids’ college, I found that even though our income dropped (my husband is a former police bomb tech who is permanently disabled due to a blast injury), the amount that we are supposed to pay for college WENT UP.
We applied for federal benefits for permanently totally disabled police officers, and were turned down. We are in the process of filing an appeal. Meanwhile, our oldest son (who was 17 at the time of the injury, now 21) joined the Army. It is the only chance he has of being able to afford college. We are very, very proud of him, but it makes me so angry to know that there are people in congress that care more about the children of illegal aliens than about the children of a cop that nearly died.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:13 am
You have my sympathies, and you might want to ask that very question of Senator Klobuchar. Because if there is a chance of defeating the DREAM Act it’s likely going to be in the Senate.
In the meantime, I hope that you can find comfort in the pride of having both a husband and son that have served. Hopefully your son never has to make as big of a sacrifice as your husband did, but instead merely uses the experience as a way to better himself.
March 31st, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Nope. You are not dreaming. You are having a NIGHTMARE, along with, 306,000,000 other, U.S. citizens. Our traitors in Congress, are bent on representing Illegal Foreign Aliens, instead of US, U.S. citizens.
It is up to us, to stop this. This is our country and WE THE PEOPLE, are suppose to be telling them, Congress, what to do. They work for us. We must fire, all of them, come 2010.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Take an unbiased moment to consider that this entire website is twisting information for the easy digest of the opposition.
There are infants brought here, who never leave this country, grow up here, become honor students, never commit a crime, graduate highschool with high honors. Can you really say THEY dont deserve college? They want to live here legally but they cant because current law doe not allow them. Do you believe this is right? It takes extreme apathy for that.
The instate tuition argument, many were raised in the state but are not caused “in state residences” because current law refuses to give them that title. 500,000 kids who have lived in the US due to the choices of their parents and without ever going back home, are potentially strong citizens but due to current legislation, are refused even the option, and then are denied higher education, employment, social security, travel, retirement, and more.
THEY are not the criminals, THEY did nothing wrong. THEY are as AMERICAN as one born on this soil, the only difference were a few months and geography. They only know America, that is all they believe in. Support the DREAM ACT, no one is taking advantage of Americans, its an act to recognize Americans.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 am
David you have to learn to think more than 1 step ahead. Let’s say I accept your argument and we pass the DREAM Act. Just how do you think that effects potentially future illegal aliens??
They know they can just drag their kids across the border, get them amnestied and then their kids use chain migration to legalize all of them.
On the other hand if we refuse to grant amnesty to the kids, the parents will have less motivation to cross the border in the first place.
There is no reason my tax dollars should go to pay tuition for an alien who is here illegally and therefore by definition is a criminal. Most real Americans don’t even get in-state tuition in most colleges.
You can play all the semantics games you want, it doesn’t change the facts.
If this is truly about the kids for you then would you agree to not include chain migration and in-state tuition??? If your answer is anything but yes, you expose your own arguments as nothing more than deceptive fluff.