DREAM Act part tres? Shelve this idea today! **UPDATED**

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Senator:

The information below needs to be notated before you accept the numbers being touted by pro-amnesty lobbyists. Just as the numbers for the SCHIP were much higher than was reported to Congress, so are the numbers of “illegal teenagers” this new DREAM Act is supposed to help. Triple the numbers for the first year and then watch them exponentially increase.

VOTE NO on Senate Bill 2205 – the DREAM Amnesty Act. Then enforce the laws already on passed. Build the Fence. Pardon Ramos and Compean, they are heroes not criminals. Illegal Aliens are the criminals; their first crime is “breaking and entering the UsofA unlawfully” and then they compound it by stealing Social Security Numbers and lying to obtain employment. Then they drive cars without benefit of drivers license, taking a driver’s test or auto insurance. Then they swindle the school systems by registering their illegal alien children, causing classroom sizes to expand and giving teachers less time with US Citizen children. Then they want special consideration for their children, so the school uses resources to teach these illegal alien children in Spanish. It’s never ending theft by taking. And Congress is a willing participant in these crimes.

Yes, Congress, the Senate, you, personally are guilty of championing anarchy by supporting illegal aliens and giving them benefits that you are denying to US Citizens. Your NO vote on Cloture will be remembered at the ballot box. It is time to shelve this issue and for Congress to get back to work. This is not a partisan issue, it’s a United States Citizen (and legal alien) issue. And the majority of us vote and have long memories.


DREAM Act Offers Amnesty to 2.1 Million
New Estimate Shows Another 1.4 Million Family Members Could Also Stay

WASHINGTON (October 23, 2007) — 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 18.

• There are an estimated 900,000 parents of illegal aliens under age 18 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 such children.

• 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 difficulty 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.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institute which examines the impact of immigration on the United States.

Thank you for a NO Cloture vote today,
///////signed///////
Retired
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From Senator Saxby Chambliss:
Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 774, the "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act." It is good to hear from you.

S. 774 was introduced on March 6, 2007, and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This legislation would allow illegal aliens to receive post-secondary educational benefits from the state in which they reside. It would also adjust an illegal alien's status to permanent legal resident status as long as they entered the U.S. before their sixteenth birthday and have been in the country for at least 5 years. Should this legislation come before the Senate, I will not support it.
Well, sir, I was concerned with Senate Bill 2205, but I'll take you at your word!