From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 15MAY08
Senate committee adds amnesty for 1.2 million illegal ag workers to Iraq
spending bill -- PHONE NOW
DEAR FRIENDS,
On a 17-12 vote this afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee added
Sen.
Feinstein's ag amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.
This bill could come up for a vote before the full Senate tomorrow.
Every phone of every Senator should be ringing off the hook as soon as I
click
SEND on this alert.
Please pick up your phone the minute you read this and call:
202-224-3121
Call the offices of both of your state's U.S. Senators and tell them:
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon committed an
outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the
citizens of this country by attaching an illegal-alien amnesty to the Iraq
spending bill.
Urge the Senator to vote and work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq
spending
bill on the floor.
You - or the Senator - may already oppose this spending bill. But if the
Senator is inclined to vote YES on the Iraq bill, ask the Senator to
definitely vote NO and send it back to committee if the amnesty is NOT
stripped.
There is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There
already
is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an
unlimited
number of tem****ary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and
ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just
trying to
protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that
farmworkers
labor under.
Here are additional talking points (and the names of your two Senators,
plus
additional phone numbers):
http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=10121
Expect that many staffers will either have no idea what is going on or
will be
lying to you. Some of you were re****ting to us t hat Sen. Feinstein's
staffers
were telling you that she had no intention of attaching an amnesty this
afternoon at the precise time that the committee was voting on her
proposal to
attach!!!!!
Unless Senators see an outpouring of disgust and outrage similar to what
you
waged a year ago, they will interpret it to be safe to vote an amnesty
this
year.
Besides an estimated 1.2 million illegal alien ag workers, all the
millions of
illegal aliens in their families would apparently get an amnesty, also.
Good luck. You are the only force that stands between some semblance of
the
rule of law and massive rewards for illegal immigration.
THANKS,
P.S. We will be constantly adding new information as we obtain it on our
home
page at: www.NumbersUSA.com A lot of details are still fuzzy right now.
Please
keep checking back to our home page.
P.S.S. Just as I was starting to click the SEND button, this re****t
arrived
from The Hill news service:
The so-called Ag-Jobs amendment, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would create a process that allows
undo***ented workers to continue to work on farms. Without the amendment,
Feinstein warned that the U.S. would lose $5-9 billion to foreign
competition,
tens of thousands of farms would shut down and 80,000 workers would be
transferred to Mexico.
The bill would sunset in five years.
NOTE FROM ROY: Open-borders sup****ters believe that if they can just help
illegal aliens sink roots for a few more years that it will be impossible
for
the government later to try to make them leave.
My staff is just now reading through Feinstein's language and tell me that
it
looks like she will give all ille gals the chance to adjust to permanent
status and path to citizen****p at the end of the five years.
"Agriculture needs a consistent workforce," Feinstein said. "Without it,
they
can't plant, they can't prune, they can't pick and they can't pack.
"This is an emergency situation," she added.
The amendment was approved by a 17-12 vote with defections from both
parties.
Critics say the amendment amounts to amnesty for people who entered the
country illegally. A broader comprehensive immigration overhaul, with a
path
for citizen****p for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants,
failed in a divisive Senate vote last year.
"No matter how one characterizes it, this enormous amendment still amounts
to
amnesty," said Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). "I oppose amnesty. All
these
immigration issues should be addressed through the regular order."
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