Your help is needed! The Senate will be taking a critical vote on the DREAM Act this Tuesday. Anti-immigrants are campaigning in force to stop this critical piece of legislation. Please counter their opposition and show your support by calling Senators Feinstein and Boxer to ask that they vote in favor of the DREAM Act. A call is better than an email – and it should only take a few minutes to dial and express your view. Every vote counts!
Here are the details:
The Senate is going to vote on a Defense Appropriations Bill on Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Attached to that bill as an Amendment will be the DREAM Act (S.729). This small piece of immigration reform is desperately needed by many bright, innocent, high school and college students.
According to other advocacy groups, anti-immigrants are drowning out support by 10 calls to 1.
1.) Please call, email, or fax our Senators. As noted above, calls are preferable.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
Email
Senator Barbara Boxer
Phone: (202) 224-3553
Email
2.) Another option to contact Congress is to go to Reform Immigration for America website and donate $30 to sponsor 100 calls.
3.) Phone calls to other Senate offices - Dial: 1-888-254-5087 if busy or not working call the switchboard directly at 202-224-3121
Ask for the following people and leave a message with their office.
Suggested Call-in Statement:
“I am calling to ask that Senator _______ vote for the DREAM Act."
Sen. Hatch of Utah
Sen. Bunning of Kentucky
Sen. Bennet of Utah
Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire
Sen. Bailey-Hutchison of Texas
Sen. McCain of Arizona
Sen. Voinovich of Ohio
Sen. Snowe of Maine
Sen. Collins of Maine
Sen. LeMeiux of Florida
Sen. Brownback of Kansas
Sen. Roberts of Kansas
Sen. Hagan of North Carolina
Sen. Pryor of Arkansas
Sen. Landrieu of Louisiana
Sen. Conrad of North Dakota
Sen. Dorgan of North Dakota
Sen. Nelson of Florida
Sen. Baucus of Montana
Sen. Tester of Montana
Sen. Feinstein of California
At this stage of the game, one of the main factors that Senators will consider are the numbers of contacts made in favor and in opposition to the DREAM Act.
4.) Please encourage anyone you know to contact Congress and urge support for the DREAM Act.
Many immigration attorneys have received calls from a young adult brought into this country at a young age that grew up in the United States and knows no other country but this one. The impact of telling that young person that he or she has no option to obtain legal status can be haunting. The only hope you can offer is the prospect of the passage of the DREAM Act.
Regardless of what you may read in the press about the chances of passage, this may be the best chance for the passage of any positive immigration reform for some time. Now is the opportunity to act. Please don't sit on your hands on this one.
Thank you again for all of your efforts!
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