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The Senate is days away from passage of the DREAM Act, a bill that opens the door to higher education and military service for young people whose parents brought them to this country as children without proper documentation. This bill will allow hundreds of thousands of youth to fulfill their dreams and contribute their talents to the strengthening our nation. You can help ensure this happens by calling the members of the Senate listed below at 866-996-5161 and letting them know how important this bill is to our future.
- George LeMieux
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Ensign
- Mark Kirk
- Olympia Snowe
- Susan Collins
- Sam Brownback
- Richard Lugar
- Bob Bennett
- George Voinovich
- Judd Gregg
- Lisa Murkowski
- John McCain
- Jon Kyle
- John Cornyn
- Scott Brown
- Lindsay Graham
Read Senate's Most Wanted press release.
Here are some of the common sense reasons you can tell them why they should vote for passage of the DREAM Act: - Some of the nation's best and brightest students face a bleak future, because their immigration status prevents them from pursuing educational and employment opportunities. Passing the DREAM Act will provide deserved opportunities for thousands of young people.
- The DREAM Act allows the U.S. to benefit from the economic and social contributions of immigrant youth. The benefits would extend to our economy through a larger tax base resulting from a better educated and more productive population.
- The DREAM Act would help the United States compete in the global economy. Those individuals that will benefit from the DREAM Act are precisely the individuals that we want in our country-they include honor roll students, star athletes, talented artists, and aspiring engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs.
- The DREAM Act would be greatly beneficial to the military, by expanding the opportunity to serve to hundreds of thousands of high-quality people who would bring much needed translation and cultural expertise to our armed forces.
The DREAM Act has long enjoyed the support of both Democrats and Republicans. |
