The DREAM Act, MN's Focus

The DREAM Act, an important piece of legislation that would allow immigrant students brought here as children or younger than 16 years of age to gain access to legal status through a robust process.

Well, such an important bill might come up in DC during the current lame duck session. It is time to get to work. There are certain things we need to know of course.

One if that there are people opposed to the DREAM at it, of course. One of them is Mr. Session, Republican of AL. That is expected of course.

Both of our MN Senaotrs are co-sponsors of the DREAM Act. Here's Sen. Franken's remarks about the DREAM Act a couple of months ago. Please thank them and ask them to continue their support.

Of the 134 co-sponsors in the House, the only MN cosponsor is Keith Ellison (please thank him as well). We need more Minnesotans to vote for it! The National Immigrant Law Center has a target list for the nation. In MN, these are their targets:

Betty McCollum D 202-225-6631
James Oberstar D 202-225-6211
Tim Walz D 202-225-2472

Though, I think that we also need to target some of the other representatives of the state:

John Kline (R) 202-225-2271
Collin Peterson (D) 202-225-2165
Erik Paulsen (R) 202-225-2871

For more info about the DREAM, here.