Thread: NumbersUSA: Tuesday Amnesty Update

Send the faxes, but do the calls to Senators local offices. It was very satisfying to hear from staff that my local citizens are with me. It wasn't always like that.

Just sent by FAIR:

Amnesty Amendments Set to Hit the Senate Floor Today
Call Your Senators NOW!!

As we reported last week, during the Senate Appropriations Committee mark-up of the Iraq War Funding Bill, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Larry Craig (R-ID) successfully attached a version of AgJOBS onto the bill. This special interest legislation is intended to protect sources of cheap labor by granting 5-year amnesty visas to 1.35 million illegal aliens plus their spouses and children. To see a summary of the amnesty portion of the Feinstein-Craig amendment, click here. THE SENATE IS SET TO BEGIN DEBATE ON THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL AS EARLY AS TODAY!!!! FAIR is urging all members, activists and friends to call their Senators NOW and urge them to strip all immigration amendments from the bill.

If that weren't enough, the Senate Appropriations Committee also saddled the Iraq War Funding Bill with:

An amendment authored by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) that will dramatically expand the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers entering the U.S. each year;

An amendment authored by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) that will make approximately 218,000 more green cards available for multinational executives and so-called "highly skilled workers" by "recapturing" visas from as far back as 1994; and

An amendment authored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that grants a 5-year extension to a program that helps wealthy investors get green cards.

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AND URGE THEM TO STRIP ALL IMMIGRATION AMENDMENTS FROM THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL!!! As soon as you have called your own Senators, please also call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). These two leaders are the most powerful, influential, and able to strip these disastrous amendments from the Iraq War Funding Bill. When you call these Senators, please tell them:

The American people overwhelmingly rejected amnesty for illegal aliens in 2007;
You are outraged the Senate is once again attempting to sneak amnesty and other immigration amendments aimed at appeasing corporate interests into an unrelated appropriations bill;
The debate over the funding for the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan should not be held hostage by the corporate cheap labor interests in Washington, DC!

To find your Senators' contact information, click here.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
DC Office (202) 224- 3542
District Office (702) 388- 5020

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
DC Office (202) 224-2541
District Office (502) 582- 6304

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
DC Office (202) 224- 3542
District Office (702) 388- 5020

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
DC Office (202) 224-2541
District Office (502) 582- 6304

Make sure tpo call these two. For MConnell, state you expect him to show leadership in opposition to the amnesty and immigration provisions (which are not germane) in the bill

For Reid, just tell him he works for the American people, not for illegal aliens and special interests in as nice and as professional terms as you can.

Feinstein is not going to have any trouble finding "AgWorkers" She's probably listening to a few whiny--s agribusiness moguls who won't take enough time away from their golf games to go the state employment department and get some.