Quit Wasting Your Time on the Internet

[Clio the Leo]

.... and CALL your Senators and ask them to vote YES on the Dream Act.

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Senate to Consider DREAM Act Immigration Reform

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports: If you thought last month’s bipartisan border security package was the only immigration reform Congress would consider this year, think again.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that he will offer the controversial DREAM Act as an amendment to a major defense bill expected to receive a Senate vote next week.

“This amendment will ensure that millions of children who grow up as Americans will be able to get the education they need to contribute to our economy,” Reid in a statement.

The DREAM Act, which has some bipartisan support, would allow young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before age 16, and have been here for at least five years, to earn legal status if they pass background checks, attend college or serve in the military for at least two years.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/senate-to-consider-dream-act-immigration-reform.html

.... when you're done calling, THEN you can go back to wasting your time on the Internet .... like I am. :)

[jdlh8894]

1. Why is he attaching it to the other bill?

Can't it stand on it's own?

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Probably couldn't get the voters for it on its own

[BklnDem75]

4. In a word, no.

Several versions of the Dream Act failed to make it through Congress since 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act#Legislative_History

[Clio the Leo]

5. Attaching things to Defense bills is a tactic as old as Congress itself. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. To force the Repubs to either vote for it, or to vote against a

Defense bill - make some Repub heads explode.

[madmax]

3. There ya go! +10 Clio nt