The House vote on the DREAM Act is now expected next week. Please keep calling! 866-967-6018
To assist you in your call, here is the action alert from the National Immigration Forum.
The DREAM Act is moving closer to a vote in the House, and anti-immigrant Members of Congress are getting ready. They are circulating their familiar talking points referring to the DREAM Act as a “mass amnesty,” and claiming that it would result in the “crowding out” of U.S. citizens from U.S. public universities.
We need you to call your representatives to push back on anti-immigrant falsehoods.
Please call your Representative TODAY. Use this number: 866-967-6018, and your call will be directed to the office of your Representative. Ask your Representative to support a vote on the DREAM Act and to vote for passage of the Act.
Briefly, the DREAM Act would give legal status to immigrant youth who were brought here by their parents and who subsequently grew up here, went to school here and now want to go to college or serve in our military. They are American in every way except their paperwork.
Why should your Representative support the DREAM Act?
• Because the public supports it—70%, according to a recent poll by First Focus.
• Because the military wants it. Secretary of Defense Bill Gates recently wrote a letter to the DREAM Act’s sponsor in the Senate in support of the DREAM Act. Retired Gen. Colin Powell has also spoken publicly in favor of the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act will help the military meet recruitment goals, because one of the ways students will qualify is to serve in the military.
• Because taxpayers deserve a return on their investment. Allowing immigrant students to continue their education and achieve their potential will translate into better jobs and higher tax revenue when these promising young people enter the workforce. A single-minded focus on enforcement, as proposed by anti-immigrant Members of Congress would deny taxpayers this return on investment, and result in higher deficits, cuts in other programs, or higher taxes to pay to deport these immigrant youth.
Call your Representative TODAY and ask him or her to support the DREAM Act. Call 866-967-6018.
For more information, go here.
A vote is also looming in the Senate. Contact info for your Senators is available here.