NumbersUSA Report on the Ag Jobs Amnesty Legislation
Posted on Monday, May 19 @ 09:08:37 EDT
Topic: guest worker program illegal immigrants
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 From our friends at NumbersUSA and the desk of Roy Beck.
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FRIENDS,THE AMNESTY BILL IS FAR WORSE THAN WE TOLD YOU.
Because the House of Representatives unexpectedly delayed the Iraq
supplemental spending bill late Thursday, the full Senate won't be
allowed today to vote on the amnesty bill that the Senate
Appropriations Committee unexpectedly took up and approved Thursday.
It now looks like the full Senate won't be allowed to vote on the
amnesty for around 1.3 million illegal alien ag workers (plus their
families) until next Wednesday.
That gives us some time to beat this atrocity.
I don't need to tell you that we can beat this amnesty ONLY if all
of you send the faxes and make the phone calls we've posted on your
Action Buffet corkboard. Please go there now.
And ONLY if you enlist as many of your friends, relatives,
neighbors and colleagues as possible by forwarding this Alert to them.
Especially important is that you pick up the phone and make the calls to your two Senators that we've requested.
202-224-3121
Topics: Ag Jobs, Amnesty, Guest Worker, Temporary Worker, Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Senators, illegal immigration
THE INCREDIBLE INGREDIENTS OF THE SENATE'S NOXIOUS AMNESTY STEW
Rosemary Jenks (our Vice President, Government Relations) just called
me after finishing reading the Iraq supplemental spending bill as it
came out of committee. It would:
Grant a three-year work visa followed by a permanent greencard to
all illegal aliens who have been working as shepherds, goat herders and
dairy herders.
Grant a five-year work visa to the estimated 1.3 million illegal
aliens working in other agricultural jobs -- plus all of their
families. There is no instruction on what happens after the five years.
Grant a tripling of the maximum number of H-2B visas for lower skill, non-agricultural seasonal workers.
Grant industries an extra 218,000 additional permanent green cards for skilled foreign workers.
Friends, perhaps you are thinking what I'm thinking: Don't these
Senators know that we are in an economic recession, or close to it?
Don't they know that unemployment rates have been going up and that
industries across the country are shedding both skilled and unskilled
jobs?
If ever you doubted that U.S. Senators live lives disconnected from
ordinary Americans, you could see it Thursday as 17 of them fell all
over themselves to drastically increase the number of foreign workers
allowed to hold U.S. jobs!
RIDICULOUS CLAIMS ABOUT RUNNING OUT OF FOOD WITHOUT AN AMNESTY
Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) led the way to protect our economy from having
to figure out ways to hire some of the 14 million-plus American workers
who are trying to find a job but can't.
Especially interesting is their claim that we will fail to harvest
crops and feed the world this year without an amnesty for illegal
aliens. They made the same claim in each of the last four years. Each
time that we beat back the amnesty, the harvests still happened! How
many times does Feinstein have to cry wolf (or rotting crops) before
people stop paying attention?
Of course, the outlaw businesses that scream for illegal aliens do
have more to fear this year because various enforcement policies
(federal, state and local) are beginning to drive more and more illegal
aliens home.
What we have to constantly remind everybody, though, is that each
of these outlaw growers at any time can come clean, go straight and
become a legal, patriotic member of the business community by importing
any needed foreign ag workers through the H-2A temporary worker
program. There is no limit on how many they can import as long as they
pay them decently and ensure that they go home.
The North Carolina Growers Association has used the H-2A visa
program for years and opposes all efforts at amnesty for illegal alien
ag workers. If the program works fine for North Carolina farmers, why
do farmers in other part of the country insist that only illegal aliens
will fit the bill?
THE VERY LOW CRITERIA FOR QUALIFYING FOR AN AG AMNESTY
Rosemary says you don't have to have spent much time in the fields to qualify for Feinstein and Craig's amnesty.
You only have to meet ONE of the following three criteria to get the amnesty:
Earned $7,000 working in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.
Or worked 863 hours in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.
Or worked at least a little bit in agriculture on 150 different days during the 2004-2007 period.
That amounts to an average of $1,750 per year ...
.. or 216 hours per year (the equivalent of 4 hours per week) ...
.. or parts of 37 days per year.
DO THEY THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND THAT WE COULD
POSSIBLY ACCEPT THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS WORKING THAT LITTLE IN AGRICULTURE
ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF AGRI-BUSINESS IN AMERICA!!!!!!
The answer is that they really hope we are that stupid or just
incredibly unfocused. All the right-wing business lobbyists, leftist
organizations, religious groups and news media who tried to force the
amnesty last year are cheering this thing on.
We beat them last year because the American people FOCUSED for a few weeks and told the U.S. Senators who is their boss.
Will you please do everything you can to enlist a small army in your community to fight this?
Please keep coming back to our home page several times a day to read the latest news on the Senate amnesty battle.
THANKS,
Roy Beck
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