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    NumbersUSA Amnesty For 1.2 Million Illegal AG Workers PHONE

    From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
    Date: Thursday 15MAY08 4:30 p.m. EDT


    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 temporary 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 reporting to us that 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 report 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 undocumented 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 supporters 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 illegals the chance to adjust to permanent status and path to citizenship 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 citizenship 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."
    IT'S NOT HOW YOU GET IN, IT'S HOW YOU GET OUT

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    Action thread here:

    http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-115596.html

    Let's call, fax, e-mail tonight!
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