Thread: URGENT!! IS AMNESTY ALMOST LOCKED IN? ~~ Repubs CAVING?!?!

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 12MAR07 12:30 a.m. EDT


Phone Republicans in House & Senate ....... Their leaders are signing off on new Bush amnesty

IS AMNESTY ALMOST LOCKED IN?

It appears tonight that the GOP leadership in both the Senate and the House may be giving the White House assurance that they will back the new Bush amnesty plan.

The only thing that stopped Pres. Bush, Sen. McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) from passing the amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens last year was that the GOP leadership in the House opposed it.

Deep sources in Congress told us earlier in the evening that the White House is bragging to many Members of Congress that the GOP House leadership has now agreed to the new Bush plan!

This is much worse than the information I gave you early Friday morning. (Thanks for the more than 150,000 faxes you have sent in the three days since then!!!!)

ACTION NOW -- You must phone Republicans -- especially GOP leaders -- all day today if we are to have any chance to avoid this disaster. See all the instructions below. Please do not procrastinate.

If you have never phoned a congressional office, just click on the phone note on your Action Buffet corkboard at:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet


WHAT IS THE NEW BUSH PLAN?



Our sources say that was the new Bush plan that Sen. Isakson (R-GA) was outlining on Fox & Friends on Friday. Without identifying it with the White House, Isakson said this is what is needed:


Lots of enforcement that may have to go into effect before any amnesty is offered. (But one Senator told us that he has been given no details to suggest that the amnesty would actually have to wait for enforcement to be implemented.)


The 12 million illegal aliens would get at least a temporary amnesty to allow them to remain and work in the U.S., for many years.


If the illegal aliens want to become citizens, they have to step out of the U.S. before coming back in to claim it. Does that mean they can't come back in until they qualify under existing greencard quotas and criteria? Maybe. But one Congressman told us that he feels certain that the Bush plan will have gigantic increases in annual green cards to accommodate all the illegals -- and perhaps millions more foreign workers each decade.

How is this any different from Kennedy and McCain's amnesty?

Bush's probably has some real teeth in its enforcement provisions. But the net result would still be 12 million illegal aliens rewarded with the legal right to live and work in the U.S. and millions more illegal aliens enticed to come over the next decade.

The fact that Isaakson appears to have signed off on the amnesty or is at least doing publicity for it is a terrible sign. Up until this moment, all of his immigration actions have earned him an "A" Immigration-Reduction Grade.

Isaakson was a leader in some of the really tough amendments to try to stop and gut the Senate's amnesty bill last year.

What is he doing joining the White House's push for millions upon millions of more permanent foreign workers? We are told that Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) are in the thick of this bill. Last year, they came up with a semi-awful Temporary Amnesty that was supposed to require illegal aliens to go home after a few years of legal work. But they have steadfastly and publicly proclaimed themselves opposed to a permanent amnesty.

Have they given up any semblance of interest in protecting American workers and communities from the negative effects of the 12 million illegal aliens already there?

I hope that your calls will get denials from these leaders. I hope you will be able to back them off any thoughts of compromising with our nation's future.


CALL A REPUBLICAN SENATOR
AND/OR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TODAY


We will have faxes for you to send later in the day.

But your phone calls combined with the faxes will multiply many times over the influence you have in those congressional offices.

Instead of waking up my writing staff, I am asking those of you who see this before my staff posts faxes and phone notes on the Action Buffet to go ahead and start calling based on what I am writing here.

The phone note (which should appear by mid-morning) will take you to advice on how to make a phone call. Everybody who has ever tried it a first time says it isn't difficult at all. Just state your name and quickly explain why you are calling and give one or at most two of your biggest concerns or arguments. Let your passion show, but be polite to the staffers. Then get off the phone quickly.

Call the Capitol Switchboard
202-224-3121


HERE ARE YOUR TOP PRIORITIES TO CALL


No. 1: Your own REPUBLICAN Senator or U.S. Representative

Tell them the horrible news in this email.

(If you don't have one, move to the next priority)

No. 2: Republican House Leadership:

Rep. Boehner (R-OH)
Rep. Blunt (R-MO)
Rep. Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Shadegg (R-AZ)
Rep. Putnam (R-FL)

No. 3: These Republican Senate Leaders:

Sen. McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Lott (R-MS)
Sen. Kyl (R-AZ)
Sen. Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Isakson (R-GA)


HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS YOU MAY WANT TO USE



Anything that provides extra greencards to allow illegal aliens now here to remain permanently in the U.S. is an amnesty.


You can't believe that the Republicans are going to give Teddy Kennedy the amnesty reward for illegal aliens.


There is no urgency to deal with the 12 million illegal aliens already here. They are damaging American workers and communities, so it is important to be using enforcement to cause them to go home over time. We want them to go home as fast as possible, but if it takes awhile that is far better than giving them legal status and qualifying them for extra taxpayer benefits while thrusting them permanently on the American people.


Don't trust general promises from the White House. Maybe it has promised certain things, but past experience suggests you can't believe any promise about immigration until you have seen the actual legislative language. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a master at writing legislation that looks like it protects Americans but which actually is meaningless.


ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT works. More and more reports are arising in other countries that the moderate increase in enforcement here is deterring a lot of people from trying to come here illegally.

Many believe that the White House staff is secretly working with the Kennedy staff and that if it can get a sufficient number of Republicans to OK the amnesty, Kennedy may be willing to compromise slightly by advancing the Bush plan instead of his own.

On the other hand, we can always hope that Kennedy and many Democrats and special interest groups will refuse to add the tougher enforcement that the Bush plan will probably have. That could lead to the inability to get majority support.

So, it is important to push as many Republicans as possible to at least insist on tough enforcement measures that Kennedy might reject.

This is an extreme emergency. Please act now.

THANKS,

-- ROY

This is disgusting! What is it about shady deals in Washington and Sunday nights? I'll be checking on this in the AM for sure.

Slam these horrible traitors!!

Slam them with everything you have..........these back room deals are going to stop, folks. They're negotiating with laraza, maldef, Chamber of Commerce Horrors and every other anti-American group including the government of mexico>>> but what about the AMERICANS that they're supposed to REPRESENT?????

These SENATORS are REPRESENTING ILLEGAL ALIENS & FOREIGN ENITITIES

It passed in the senate in May, hit the Democrats extra hard or it will pass. Pray to god we can stop this.

Originally Posted by Matthewcloseborders

It passed in the senate in May, hit the Democrats extra hard or it will pass. Pray to god we can stop this.

HIT THE REPUBLICANS!!!

they're the ones who are sneaks and weak kneed!

What DEALS are they getting???

I hate these freakin "back door deals"! I am going to bombard them all day.
It made me even angrier watching Bush travel all over South American countries, promising more trade and easier immigration. VOMIT!

Originally Posted by firecracker

I hate these freakin "back door deals"! I am going to bombard them all day.
It made me even angrier watching Bush travel all over South American countries, promising more trade and easier immigration. VOMIT!

Not to mention more of our $$$$

First we give them our jobs...then our money....what's left for America's middle class and our poor?

TRAITORS!!!! I am on it and I am AS MAD AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!

Called McConnell's office and they said basically nothing and stumbled a lot...So I let them know where I stood and what was acceptable. No increase in green cards, nothing that allows illegals already here to remain here, etc...

bttt