DREAM Act supporters press LeMieux, but he won't budge

Students, some undocumented, turned up Wednesday at the Miami and Orlando offices of Florida Republican Sen. George LeMieux to keep up pressure on him to vote for the DREAM Act, which would legalize hundreds of thousands of foreign students brought here illegally by their parents when they were children.

In Doral, about 15 students lined up in front of LeMieux's office holding symbolic immigration petitions for legal status and signs in favor of the DREAM Act. Two of the students, Stephanie Wall of Colombia and Vanessa Núñez of Venezuela, stepped forward and before TV cameras identified themselves as undocumented foreign youths hoping for passage of the bill.

Though LeMieux on Tuesday indicated he likely will vote against the DREAM Act, the students said they want to hear a definitive statement from the senator on how he intends to vote. LeMieux voted against the bill in September when it came up as an amendment to a defense spending measure.

"Last September, Sen. LeMieux was very evasive about his position on the DREAM Act, until he finally voted against it," said Felipe Matos, a Brazilian who was one of four South Florida youths who earlier this year walked from Miami to Washington to lobby for the bill. "We want to know if he will betray Florida's youth one more time."

In an interview with The Miami Herald in Washington on Tuesday, LeMieux strongly suggested he will oppose the DREAM Act again.

Asked if he was going to vote against the bill, LeMieux replied: "The way it is postured now I am. If you could do border security and tighten something up, I'd be willing to look at it. I think you have to secure the borders before you talk about other immigration issues."

LeMieux also said that though he understood the foreign students' plight, he did not think this was the time to help them given enforcement concerns.

"I'm sympathetic to them," LeMieux said. "But we've got a huge problem... If we could do a significant border security measure, then I'd be willing to talk about this situation with these kids who are brought here by no fault of their own. But until we do that, I'm not supporting it."

keep pressing him

leave him some voice mails

Washington Office:

(202) 224-3041

keep Pressing Him, I've Read He Is Thinking Of Running For Governor In Florida, He Would Need The Cuban Vote, And There Is A Cuban Fellow Dreamer Beneficiary, Mention This When You Call His Office, I Did And The Staffer Asked For A Zip Code Swiftly

^^^ D.C. full, call here, C'mon Dreamers its been ten long years, lets push it to the finish line:

Orlando:
201 S. Orange Ave., Suite 350
Orlando, FL 32801
Tel: (407) 254-2573
Fax: (407) 423-0941
Toll-Free in FL: (866) 630-7106

Fort Myers:
2120 Main Street, Suite 200
Fort Myers, Florida 33901
Tel: (239) 332-3898
Fax: (239) 332-3447
Jacksonville:
1650 Prudential Drive, Suite 220
Jacksonville, FL 32207
Tel: (904) 398-8586
Fax: (904) 398-8591

Miami:
8669 NW 36th St., Suite 110
Miami, FL 33166
Tel: (305) 418-8553
Fax: (305) 594- 4014
Fort Lauderdale:
642 N. Federal Hwy.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Tel: (954) 760-4124
Fax: (954) 760-4598

Pensacola:
1 N. Palafox Street, Suite 159
Pensacola, FL 32502
Tel: (850) 433-2603
Fax: (850) 433-2554
Tampa :
3802 Spectrum Boulevard, Suite 106
Tampa, FL 33612
Telephone: (813) 977-6450
Fax: (813) 977-6593

its only an excuse, if they do add border security they will say that its not enough border security and so on and so on......

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Shut your sarcasm. Nows not the time, get his phone ringing.