Next Stop? The Senate! Check Out Our New Dream Toolkit!

July 18, 2019

Dear Presidents' Alliance Member,

With the Supreme Court now deciding to consolidate and hear the various legal cases challenging the rescission of DACA, continued delays by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, including DACA and TPS & DED applications (highlighted in a House Judiciary Committee Hearing yesterday and through the Alliance’s live tweeting ), and the ongoing threats of raids, it is critical for higher education to continue to push for the Senate to act to protect undocumented students.

Senate action is particularly important considering that the House passed its own legislation , the Dream and Promise Act, H.R.6.

In this member update, we unveil our toolkit for Dream and TPS & DED Advocacy in the Senate that you and your campuses can start using this summer. The advocacy toolkit is geared for members and college and university campuses, including students, faculty, and staff to share resources and opportunity for advocacy on behalf of Dreamers, and TPS & DED holders in the Senate.

This toolkit contains resources for Dream Act of 2019, S.874 and the SECURE Act, S.879 , two bills pending in the Senate that would establish a roadmap to citizenship for these populations. It also includes information regarding the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, H.R.6 which passed the House in June of 2019.

Visit the online toolkit at our website or download and view the latest version at this link .

For presidents and chancellors who wish to contact their Senators directly and need contact information for key staffers for Senate offices, visit this page and use password “congress” to access. You can find a script for presidents and chancellors at this link .

Please consider sharing the online portal we’ve set up with the Hispanic Association of Colleges Universities (HACU) with campuses, students, and staff:

https://bit.ly/DreamSenate

Through this portal, campuses and students can quickly find out who their Senators are and utilize custom scripts and talking points.

Here are sample tweets you can share about the toolkit and the online advocacy portal:

Share widely! @PresImmAlliance released its toolkit to encourage the Senate to pass protections for Dreamers and TPS & DED holders, check out the toolkit here: http://bit.ly/SenateDreamToolkit #ProtecttheDream #DreamAct2019 #SaveTPS #SaveDED
Ask the Senate to act on Dreamers and TPS & DED holders and pass the Dream Act of 2019 and SECURE Act! Use the @PresImmAlliance and @HACUNews advocacy portal to contact your Senator: https://bit.ly/DreamSenate #ProtecttheDream #DreamAct2019 #SaveTPS #SaveDED

Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @PresImmAlliance to get all the latest updates on our Senate efforts!

Finally, below we share some toplines regarding a new report from Boundless Immigration regarding family-based immigration to the United States.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miriam Feldblum, Executive Director, and Jose Magaña-Salgado, Director of Policy and Communications

Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration

Surprising Findings on Family-Based Immigration

Yesterday, Boundless Immigration , released a new report highlighting family-based immigration, including their relation to U.S. citizens and high-skilled workers. You can read the report here . The report, titled Top 10 Surprising Facts About Family-Based Immigration , has some key toplines you can use in your education, outreach, and advocacy, including the following (taken from the press release):

The vast majority of family-sponsored immigrants are immediate relatives—spouses, parents and unmarried children under 21—of U.S. citizens.
Nearly half of all family-based and diversity-visa immigrants combined are college-educated, or “high-skill.”
The level of education among immigrants has increased over time. Recently arrived immigrants are more likely to have a college degree than native-born Americans.
Nearly 4 million immigrants are currently waiting in line for a family-sponsored green card.