Reid Delays Dream Act But Promises Passage This Fall!

By Steve Elliott

Wednesday evening, Sen. Majority Leader Reid tabled the Dream Amnesty Act until later this fall. Reid and Durbin all-but guaranteed the bill will be back in the next 6 weeks. Reid said the battle is “still on” and “we will move to proceed to this matter before we leave here.” But for now once again our grassroots pressure made the difference.

This from the Houston Chronicle:

“With conservatives being barraged with calls, faxes and e-mails from anti-illegal immigration groups that view the DREAM Act as amnesty, some Republicans who supported the measure in the past have been reluctant to do so now”

Grassroots Activism Works!

Grassfire team members alone sent over 260,000 faxes to the Senate in less than two weeks. Add to that tens of thousands of phone calls along with the combined efforts of NumbersUSA and other groups, “barraged” is a very good description of what YOU did.

Again, unless citizens stood up and spoke out, the Senate would have passed this amnesty package as an amendment to the Defense spending bill.

Dream Amensty Vote Still Looming

In the face of overwhelming citizen opposition to this latest amnesty effort, Reid and Durbin still vowed to pass this bill — highlighting their arrogance and determination to push their amnesty agenda.

That’s why our staff is already preparing for the next round of this Dream Amensty battle. We expect a more intense liberal media PR effort from the Amnesty Senators focusing on heart-tugging sob stories of teenage “undocumented victims” of the system. We are ready.

Grassfire will be unleashing a major expansion of our “Where’s The Fence?” ad campaign which juxtaposes this latest amnesty push with the the government’s unwillingness to build the border fence. Most importantly, citizens like you once again will be needed to rise up and to take action to stop the amnesty agenda.

For more on the bill, read this excellent editorial from the Washington Times last night.

Article Source: FireSociety.com

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Grassroots Answers the Call

The turnout to defeat this latest attempt by open border lawmakers was unprecedented, and spectacular! Dianne Feinstein, a strong supporter of the bill reported receiving more than 4,000 phone calls since September 13. A spokesman for her office reported that while 239 calls were in favor of the bill, 3,805 were opposed!

And that doesn’t even include the hundreds of thousands of faxes that literally poured into every Senate office on Capitol Hill over these last few weeks!

Once again the arrogance of our leadership underestimated the strength and power of the people–the citizens of the U.S, who once again demanded enforcement of our existing laws, the building of the fence and absolutely NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS!

Simply stated, without your efforts, Durbin and his open-border cohorts would already be celebrating the bill’s passage with amnesty special interests.

But, as in the past, we cannot rest on our laurels. Instead we must remain vigilant for the next deceptive amnesty charge. In fact, Harry Reid probably did us all a favor by promising it would be coming again in the Fall.

Again, thank you so much for your passionate efforts to secure our border and protect our sovereignty!

Steve Elliott, President
GrassFire.org

P.S: Just yesterday, the House passed a measure for illegal aliens to gain access to additional taxpayer funded benefits, including healthcare. Our staff has compiled an exclusive backgrounder for our team. Click here to access the report: http://www.firesociety.com/article/17956/?src=111

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