DREAM Update - Needs Action Today!

By way of follow up to the last post, Michelle Malkin gives us an update on the DREAM vote coming up fast:

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 as we head toward the Saturday DREAM Act vote in the Senate.

Operation Buck Up

 has to be in full effect this afternoon.

The White House has enlisted left-wing open-borders religious leaders to lean on Senate Republicans who have supported DREAM in the past. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is also leading a last-ditch push to make illegal aliens' education a priority while strapped institutions are turning law-abiding citizens and law-abiding immigrants away.

And remember: The CBO score estimates that "the bill would increase projected deficits by more than $5 billion in at least one of the four consecutive 10-year periods starting in 2021."

What part of "no more illegal alien waivers" don't they understand?

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From stalwart Sen. Jeff Sessions, one last action alert before the vote:

UPDATED CRITICAL IMMIGRATION ALERT

DEMOCRAT LEADERS PLAN VOTE ON FIFTH VERSION OF FLAWED DREAM ACT

PROPOSAL CONTAINS A SAFE HARBOR FOR CRIMINALS, ELIGIBILITY FOR REPEAT OFFENDERS, AND IS SUBJECT TO MASSIVE FRAUD. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL, FINISH COLLEGE, OR JOIN THE MILITARY AS A CONDITION OF AMNESTY.

Senator Reid has filed cloture of the House-passed version of the DREAM Act, setting up a vote this Saturday as the lame-duck session continues. Stunningly, it is fifth version introduced in the Senate in just over 2 months. Not one of the versions has received committee process. In fact, the House bill was introduced just one day prior to passage. Further, Senator Reid filled the tree, and won't allow any amendments to the bill.

Though the DREAM Act would grant mass amnesty, the lack of hearings and committee process means the public and the Senate have not had time to analyze the proposal. The Congressional Budget Office says that the DREAM Act is expected to add more than $5 billion to the federal deficit—a figure that will grow given that the CBO fails to take into account a multitude of factors, such as the resulting litigation, fraud, and chain migration.

In addition to immediately placing an estimated 1–2 million illegal aliens on a path to citizenship (a number expected to grow since the bill has neither a cap nor a sunset), the DREAM Act will give them access to federal student loans and federal work-study programs. The bill allows illegal aliens to get legal status indefinitely by simply claiming they have a high school diploma or GED, and even opens eligibility to those with multiple criminal convictions.

Once naturalized, aliens granted DREAM Act amnesty will then have the legal right to petition for entry of their family members, including their adult siblings and the parents who illegally brought or sent them to the United States—easily tripling the number of green cards.

Americans reject amnesty as long as the unacceptable lawlessness continues. But this bill simply incentivizes and rewards more illegality. And, if it passes, what principle would lawmakers cite to object to another amnesty, for another group, and another one after that? Its passage will only encourage more people to unlawfully enter our country expecting a DREAM Act of their own.

The election on November 2nd cleaned out a boatload of the open borders crowd and replaced them with staunch supporters of border enforcement and reducing illegal immigration.  If we can hang on through this last desperate push by the amnesty crowd, the cavalry will have arrived by the next time Congress convenes in January, and we've set back the amnesty movement by at least a couple more years, maybe more.  With the vote being held on Saturday, today is your last chance to contact your Senators.  We know that the professional open borders phone-bankers are fully engaged in this fight, so it's up to individual citizens like you and me to counteract their false influence.  Pick up the phone (202-224-3121), write an e-mail, or both.

Do it.