DREAM Act hunger strike spreads

Do you really care?

Hey folks,

I don't. So some kids, with skulls full of mush, having been brainwashed into thinking that America is Evil and the cause of all the problems in the world, have decided to go on a hunger strike. Why? They want Congress to pass the Dream Act.

What is the DREAM Act? Amnesty. Amnesty in the guise of compassion for those who where Minors when they arrived here. So a Kid, or Teenager of an Illegal Alien would, under this Bunk, being here at least five years, {Proved by how?}be allowed to "Earn" Citizenship, through attending Two Years in College and or the Military. They would have to be "good Moral Character," {As determined by whom?} and they would have to be on the road to getting a College Degree.

Basically, it is a step toward Amnesty. That's all this is. Yet, some Students in Universities across Texas and San Antonio, have gone on a Hunger strike to pressure U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to vote for the DREAM Act. No doubt they have been Brainwashed by those Liberal Institutions to think that all these people want is a better life, and America's Immigration Laws are Draconian and Evil. Then again, many of them that ARE Striking ARE Illegal to begin with.

Anyway, as I said, who cares? According to SA.com - DREAM Act hunger strike spreads By Melissa Ludwig - Express-News Web Posted: 11/24/2010 12:00 AM CST

University students across Texas this week joined San Antonio students in a hunger strike aimed at pressuring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to vote for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for students and soldiers brought to the country illegally as children.

Started two weeks ago by a dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the hunger strike spread this week to UT campuses in Austin, Dallas, Arlington, Brownsville and Edinburg, as well as the University of North Texas in Denton, according to members of DREAM Act NOW!, the UTSA student group that organized the strike.

The group is part of a national coalition called United We DREAM, which brings together activists in each state. Universities in Florida and Indiana have also begun striking in solidarity, members said.

“Now that they have seen we are still going and not planning to stop, some have joined us,” said Claudia Sanchez, one of the UTSA strikers. Sanchez, 29, is a U.S. citizen, but many of her fellow strikers are in the country illegally.

Hutchison met with a DREAM Act activist in Washington last week in hopes the meeting would end the hunger strike, according to a spokeswoman. Sanchez said San Antonio strikers want a face-to-face meeting with Hutchison when she comes home to Texas for the holidays.

“We want to start talking about the specifics of the DREAM Act so she can tell us exactly what she doesn't agree with,” Sanchez said. “We are giving her until Thanksgiving. If not, we are going to start stepping up our campaign. We will put more pressure on her.”

If she cares. What does it matter to her if YOU eat of not? What does it matter to ANYONE but YOU? I don't care. Most Americans do not care. Most Americans do NOT want the Dream Act. What we want, is for those that wish to come to this country, to do so LEGALLY. It really is not that hard a concept. Come here LEGALLY, and we will welcome you with open arms. Come here ILLEGALLY, and you fall privy to the LAW that is on the Books. YOU are then a CRIMINAL and NOT worthy of a chance to circumvent the system. Sorry.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Hutchison said she would not support the current bill because it “goes far beyond the intended group of children who grew up in the U.S. and attended primary and secondary schools here.”

Hutchison is concerned for the safety and welfare of the students, but has already met with people from many parts of Texas on the issue and does not plan change her position, the statement said.

Like I said, who cares. They are Striking for those who are ILLEGAL. This does not sit well with most law abiding Citizens. Should we care if there were a group conducting a Hunger Strike for Bank Robbers? Of course not. We would hope that you have enough money to buy new jeans after you lose the weight from not eating.

Sanchez said she hoped Congress would vote on the bill next week during the lame-duck session.

The act would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the country before the age of 16. To be eligible, the immigrants must have no criminal record and either attend college or serve in the military for two years. It would likely benefit about 825,000 immigrants, the vast majority under the age of 35, according to the Migration Policy Institute

Yeah she wants it jammed through while the Lib Loons still have some power. I do not think that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has anything to worry about. It's not coming up for a Vote any time soon. They have too much on their plate than to worry about something that they know they do not have the Votes for. Sorry Kiddies. But think of it this way. Maybe you'll lose some weight and look good for Graduation and or the up coming Spring Break. {Smile}
Peter

Sources:
SA.com - DREAM Act hunger strike spreads

The DREAM Act

Hey folks,

Yes Amnesty is still alive and well. Anyone that speaks out against it, is being labeled racist by the Loony Libs that WANT this. It keeps failing. They keep trying. The latest is The DREAM Act.

Back on September 19, I posted a plea from Roy Beck, of Numbers USA. On September 20, I posted the Heritage Foundation’s take on what this actually is, AMNESTY. The bill you killed again and again. Now the vote is coming. According to this release by The Center for Immigration Studies, which is an independent research institute which examines the impact of immigration on the United States, Mark Krikorian is executive director,

The Senate is currently considering the DREAM Act (S.2205). Some have argued that only 60,000 illegal immigrants would be granted amnesty annually under the Act, but a new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of 2007 Census Bureau data shows millions of potential beneficiaries.

-- An estimated 800,000 illegal immigrants under age 17 have been here long enough to qualify for legalization under the DREAM Act. There are a total of 1.7 million illegal aliens estimated to be under age 17.

-- There are an estimated 900,000 parents of illegal aliens under age 17 who qualify. It is unclear whether the government would deport these parents.

-- The DREAM Act is also unclear as to what will happen to the siblings of legalized illegals who are themselves illegal, but do not meet the Act's requirements. There are an estimated 500,000 of these siblings.

-- The DREAM Act also allows illegal aliens ages 18 to 29 to legalize if they claim to have arrived prior to age 16. We estimate 1.3 million meet this requirement. There are a total of 4.4 million illegal aliens in this age group.

-- Thus the total number of potential amnesty beneficiaries is 2.1 million (assuming no fraud). This does not include 1.4 million siblings and parents of qualifying illegals who may end up receiving a de facto amnesty.

-- Prior legalization programs have been plagued by fraud. One-fourth (700,000) of those legalized in the 1986 amnesty are estimated to have done so fraudulently.

-- Given the difficultly in determining whether an applicant meets the DREAM Act's amnesty requirements, coupled with the overworked nature of the immigration bureaucracy, fraud could be a significant problem.

Methodology: These estimates are based on a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the March 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) collected by the Census Bureau. No estimate is definitive, of course, but the Urban Institute, the Pew Hispanic Center, and the INS have all used the March CPS to estimate the size of the illegal population. We estimated that the survey included more than 11 million illegals in 2007. This is entirely consistent with prior research. The above numbers do NOT include those illegal aliens missed by the Census Bureau's survey. The Department of Homeland Security and other researchers have estimated that 10 percent of illegals are likely missed in Census Bureau surveys of this kind. Thus, the actual number of potential beneficiaries is almost certainly higher than the numbers discussed above.

We use the demographic characteristics of respondents to distinguish legal and illegal immigrants in the survey. We combine this with the estimated number of legal immigrants in the country. This method is based on some very well-established facts about the characteristics of the legal and illegal population and is consistent with other research that employs the same approach to estimate the illegal population.

Folks, the Lib.s do not want to give this up. They WANT Amnesty. They are trying to sneak it in with the DREAM Act. Make no mistake about it. AMNESTY is ALL this is about. Once again, YOUR voices need to be heard.
Peter

Sources:
OPNTalk- Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
OPNTalk- Amnesty Again, and They Seem Worried For HIS Safety?
The Center for Immigration Studies

Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA


A few more hours of phoning today ... You are creating more doubts ... Make this radioactive

FRIENDS, PLEASE DO NOT LET UP!

Call the Senate switchboard at:
202-224-3121

The momentum is with us. We started the day with only 4 Senators committed to vote NO on the DREAM Act Amnesty. As I write this, the list is up to 18.

Your calls are making a big difference. Our Capitol Hill Team called many of these offices this morning and couldn't get a commitment to oppose this amnesty. But by this afternoon after being flooded by your calls, many of them were calling US to get their names off our home page list of wafflers!

Current debate and agenda on the Department of Defense authorization bill suggest that the DREAM Amnesty amendment could happen as early as later Wednesday.

Please phone today until switchboards shut down. Then start again first thing tomorrow (Wednesday).

SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP ON OUR SIDE

Even Senators Graham (R-S.C.), Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Lott (R-Miss.) have called to pledge a NO. They were three of the basic Republican leaders for the June amnesty attempt.

You folks in South Carolina, Arizona and Mississippi have done a fantastic job to get a turnaround like this.

This means the top two Senate Republicans (McConnell of Kentucky and Lott) are pledged to stop this amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

When you call Republican Senators in your state, you might ask them to follow the path of their leaders (McConnell and Lott) and also note that three of the biggest pushers of amnesty in June (Graham, Kyl and Lott) have switched sides on this amnesty because it so very much worse.

DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP BEING PRESSED BY OTHER DEMOCRATS TO DROP AMNESTY VOTE

Because Senate Democratic leadership has been so extraordinarily pro-illegal alien, I know that many of you with Democratic Senators have felt that your calls to those offices don't make much difference.

But we are getting reports that your calls are starting to make a big difference.

First, remember that 25% of Democratic Senators voted with us and against amnesty in June.

Secondly, they and a lot of other Democratic Senators know that these pro-illegal votes are really hurting the Party's image among independent and more moderate Democrats.

It appears that many of the Democratic Senators are questioning Senate Democratic Leader Reid about the wisdom of allowing the Defense bill to get all tied up with immigration bickering.

Your calls to your Democratic Senators may not succeed in getting them to pledge a NO vote on the amnesty. But you may be causing them behind the scenes to get the amnesty amendment pulled.

Please don't let up.

KEEP WATCHING THE WHIP LISTS ON OUR HOME PAGE

Talk Radio and newspapers across the country are relying on our "whip lists" that change by the hour on our home page based on how well you move Senate offices to declare their opposition to this latest amnesty.

Please post this page of "whip lists" on every blog and chat room you can find. We must get everybody focused on the culprits. And this page is the only place where people can find an up-to-date list.

The url to post is:
www.NumbersUSA.com

The home page provides a link to a list of anti-amnesty champion Senators who have pledged to vote NO on the DREAM Act amnesty.

More importantly, the home page shows all the waffling Senators who voted NO on the Comprehensive Amnesty in June but thus far are unwilling to pledge to vote NO on this amnesty.

Within 15 minutes of a Senator's office telling us to put him/her on the No Amnesty page, we will take his/her name off the home page.

Tell the waffling Senators that you are shocked to see their names on NumbersUSA's list of Senators who are declining to pledge to vote NO on the DREAM Act Amnesty. Pull talking points from lower in this email and from the Phone action notes on your Action Buffet corkboard.

If the staffers try to tell you that their Senator is probably against the amnesty or definitely is, tell the staffer that NumbersUSA is reporting that at this minute the Senator has declined to make the pledge. Tell them that they need to call NumbersUSA to straighten that out.

If you don't have a waffler Senator in your state, phone your Senators who are on the list of Pro-Amnesty Senators, the second list on our home page.

Most Senators have not declared either way on this DREAM Act Amnesty. We need many more people on our NO list to persuade Senate leaders that this amnesty is too controversial and would just drag down all the rest of the Senate's work.

Find all the phone numbers for your two Senators at www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers.

Find DC and local phone numbers for ALL Senators at www.NumbersUSA.com/congressinfo/.

NEW Talking Points to Stop the DREAM ACT AMNESTY

The DREAM Act (Amendment 2237 to the Defense Authorization bill) is a nightmare. It is a massive amnesty that extends to the millions of illegal aliens who entered the United States before the age of 16.

The DREAM Act allows illegal "teens" to petition for their parents, leading eventually to their aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins:

The big argument for this amnesty is that it is for teenagers who are here illegally because their parents broke the law. As you will see in later bullet points, far more than teens can get this amnesty. Nonetheless, the argument is that the teenagers should not be punished for the crimes of their parents.

But as soon as DREAM amnesty citizens are over 21, they can bring in their parents who broke the law to get them into the country. The chief criminals will be rewarded after all.

And because of Chain Migration, the amnestied "teens" can see their aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents getting permanent U.S. residency as well.

The DREAM Act does not Protect Americans from Terrorists and Criminals:

Illegal immigrants are not required to submit fingerprints or undergo background security checks at any point in the DREAM Act process. Therefore, DHS has no way of learning whether an alien seeking DREAM Act amnesty is a terrorist or criminal. This security failure is compounded by the confidentiality section of the DREAM Act, which is a relic from pre-9/11 days (it’s modeled on the fraud-prone 1986 amnesty). This section basically requires DHS to hide information about terrorist and criminal aliens from itself. If a DHS adjudicator at USCIS learns from a DREAM Act application that an alien poses terrorist or criminal concerns, the adjudicator is prohibited from alerting ICE enforcement officers at DHS, and in fact, if the adjudicator did volunteer such information to ICE, he could be fined $10,000. To cap it all, DHS is prohibited from removing from the United States all aliens, including criminals, terrorists, fraudsters, and other ineligible aliens while they have a DREAM Act application pending, even if that application is based upon fraud or the alien is ineligible.

The DREAM Act Offers Citizenship to Illegal Aliens Who Lack Good Moral Character:

The DREAM Act does not require that aliens have a history of good moral character; it only requires that they have good moral character from the time that they apply. This means that criminal aliens, terrorists, and other aliens who lack good moral character before they apply get an amnesty for their pre-application period conduct, no matter how bad or extensive that conduct.

The DREAM Act is Not Just for Young People:

Sponsors insist that the point of the DREAM Act is to provide legal status to “kids” and “young people.” However, the DREAM Act is not directed at minors, as there is no age cap involved. Anyone, regardless of age, who illegally entered the United States before the age of 16 and has illegally remained here for 5 years or more will qualify for lawful permanent residence (and eventual citizenship) if they satisfy the easily-met criteria for DREAM Act amnesty.

The DREAM Act is a Big Amnesty:

It’s estimated there are some 2 million illegal immigrant children in the United States. They are only a portion of the millions of aliens who will likely qualify for the DREAM Act amnesty, because the DREAM Act does not place a cap on the number of people who qualify, does not limit the age of those who qualify, and applies retroactively to anyone who first entered before age 16.

The DREAM Act is Deceptive:

The marketing campaign for the DREAM Act makes as though the amnesty is intended for high school graduates who are on their way to college or military service. But the bill as written ensures that illegal immigrants don’t have to attend high school or go to college to qualify for the amnesty: they need only take an ability-to-benefit test and complete a 1-year vocational program to get eventual citizenship (and there’s no requirement that they actually complete their college education). Nor do aliens have to join the Armed Forces: they need only go to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or Public Health Service for 2 years to get eventual citizenship.

The DREAM Act is a Fraud Machine:

We know from experience that amnesty from immigration laws generates massive fraud, and the DREAM Act is no exception. Nothing in the DREAM Act will prevent a 50-year old alien from asserting that he entered the United States before the age of 16 and has remained here ever since. The DREAM Act is silent on how DHS will determine the veracity of such claims. The DREAM Act will actually promote fraud because it prevents DHS from deporting aliens who’ve applied for the amnesty until their applications are resolved – a process that will likely take years, because DHS lacks the resources to rapidly process the millions of applications it will receive. Even if DHS eventually decides that some aliens do not qualify for the amnesty, DHS cannot use the statements aliens made in their applications to deport them, because their statements are protected by the confidentiality section in the DREAM Act.

The DREAM Act is Unfair to American Students and Taxpayers:

The DREAM Act would repeal the 1996 law which says that State colleges and universities cannot offer in-state tuition benefits to resident illegal immigrants unless they offer the same benefits to students who are U.S. citizens. So, an 18-year old United States citizen attending school in a different state will pay substantially more money for his college education than a 30-year old illegal alien residing in that state. Because public colleges and universities are heavily subsidized by taxpayers, Americans end up paying the bill for educating illegal immigrants. Further, because the repeal of the 1996 law is retroactive, illegal aliens who formerly paid out-of-state tuition will have the ability and motivation to sue for the difference between what they paid and the in-state rate.

The DREAM Act Puts Illegal Immigrants at the Front of the Line for Green Cards:

The DREAM Act requires that applications for its amnesty must be expedited, bars DHS from charging fees for expedited service, and fails to provide DHS the additional personnel and equipment needed to handle expedited applications. Because millions of people will file applications for DREAM Act amnesty (regardless of whether or not they eventually qualify), DHS will experience a significant backlog of cases that will necessarily slow DHS’ ability to process conventional

business and family visas, and applications for naturalization. This will adversely impact our economy, and disrupt the settled expectations of intending legal immigrants to the United States.

The DREAM Act Will Allow Dangerous Criminal Aliens to Remain At Large in the United States:

DHS lacks the resources to detain all criminal aliens it encounters in the United States, and so DHS has to pick and choose which criminals to hold for deportation. When DHS deports a criminal alien, the detention or “bed space” vacated by the out-going criminal is immediately filled by another criminal alien. The DREAM Act does not disqualify anyone (even criminals) from filing an application and bars DHS from removing any alien who’s filed an application for amnesty. Thus, criminal aliens who have no desire to be deported will file DREAM Act applications to halt or slow their deportations, which means they will spend more time taking up detention space which could be used to house other criminal aliens. That means more criminal aliens whom DHS cannot house will be free to roam the United States. The DREAM Act also creates an opportunity for extremely dangerous criminal aliens to be released into the general population. By law, a criminal alien who is subject to a final order of removal must be released from DHS custody within 90 days if his removal is not “reasonably foreseeable.” As mentioned previously, the DREAM Act does not allocate resources to DHS to process the millions of applications that are sure to be filed, which will result in very lengthy delays. The result? A dangerous criminal alien who would otherwise have been removed from the United States files his DREAM Act application, and when that application stalls at DHS with millions of others, he can file a petition in a district court after 90 days to effect his release because his removal is not “reasonably foreseeable.”