Call-In Campaign for DREAM Act

[Adrian Palma]

Dear ECCSF Reps,

Every year, 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools and less than 10% of them go on to a post-secondary education. These students, like us, have a passion for education and the opportunities that it can provide for a future living. They are our sisters, brothers, friends, roommates, classmates and neighbors. They are not very different from us other than for the fact that they lack a social security number. Lacking legal status as then meant unequal access to a higher education.

As students of Cornell University and as human beings, we acknowledge that we need to be the voice of the voiceless. Their struggle is our struggle, and until they are free, we are free.

We invite you and your organization to join us in the National Call-In Campaign and make calls every day to senators who have not yet cosponsored the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow undocumented youth of good moral character to earn their residency. We urge you to do this throughout the month of September since this is month that Congress will be trying to pass bills before the November elections.

The issue regarding a higher education and undocumented students is an issue of inequality and an issue of civil rights that we must address now. We need to support immigrant youth who dare to dream and who have given themselves to the cause of education and a better world.

Attached (and below) are the instructions for making a call.

 

For Justice,

MEChA de Cornell

Since both of New York's senators have cosponsored the DREAM Act we will target the
senators from Maine. Our targets are Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins. Scroll down to see what you
need to do.

We will make calls every day! It only takes a minute so please encourage others to make calls!
There is no specific place or time to do it since the phone operators run 24/7.

What you need to do!

1. Call 1-888-254-5087, an operator will answer
2. You will tell the operator "Please connect me to Sen. Snowe" or "Please connect
me to Sen. Collins."
3. Once you are directed to them or their answering machines, just read this script:

“Hi, my name is _________ and I am calling to urge Senator ________ to co-
sponsor the DREAM Act Now (S.729). The DREAM Act allows immigrant youth
of good moral character to make crucial economic contributions to the United
States. Thank you"

 

We are NOT limited to call Sen. Snowe or Sen. Collins only. Feel free to call your
home state senators if they have not yet cosponsored it (using the same number).
Another great target is the Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Reid from Nevada.

*For a list of senators who have not yet cosponsored the DREAM: http://action.nclr.org/
t/4777/content.jsp?content_KEY=4046

PASS THIS ON !!