Reid Delays Dream Act But Promises Passage This Fall!

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 amnestyy 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.