Thread: Well,,, the weasels are back in Washington

Well the weasels are back in Washington and are pushing hard to pass S.1348 this week.
We did a great job holding their feet to the fire over the Memorial Holiday,

"The level of intensity and volume is, I think, surprising,'' CNN contributor and radio talk show host Bill Bennett said. "We've talked to a number of Republican senators, and they confessed to being surprised by the reaction."
Over the break, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) were booed at their state party conventions. Sen John Kyl was quoted as saying "he learned a few new words from his constituents".....
BUT.....
Jeff Flake just blows off the people who elected him.....
"You just have to recognize you will get 300 calls, you'll get conflicts at town hall meetings -- all of them negative," said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who consulted with Kyl and hopes to carry a similar deal through the House in July.
HAVE YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES HEARD FROM YOU?
WELL...THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU ALL THROUGH THIS WEEK!

Last week, we asked you to call on your state's senators and as many other senators as you had time to call. The purpose was to urge them not to vote for any sort of amnesty. The pressure you all have brought on these politicians is beginning to show as they are publicly saying they are getting bombarded with calls against amnesty.

It's imperative that we all keep up the telephone barrage of the US Senators.

All of our elected representatives have showed up back in Washington today saying that the phone calls are dying off and what a good job they did convincing their screaming constituents to back this bill. SOURCE WAPO

THEY ARE LYING....WE KNOW IT AND THEY KNOW IT!


This week is now or nothing. Senators from both sides are going to try and amend the bill.
All the amendments that were proposed to strengthen this sham were voted down last week. But...no amendments will fix this bill.. .IT NEEDS TO BE KILLED!

THE MAIN THING FOR US ALL TO REALIZE THAT THEY DON'T WANT US TO, IS:

1) No one is even willing to take total Amnesty off the table. The Z visa will permit every illegal immigrant in our country to remain here indefinitely.... period. Saying anything else is just a plain lie.
2) The border security provisions of the bill remain totally non enforceable.....and likely will not even be funded (just like the fence they said they were going to build)
3) There is no provision in this bill to do anything to the illegals who just say "screw you we're staying" No way to find them.....No way to make them leave......No real change in employer sanctions besides plans for a vague "TAMPER RESISTANT" ID card......
(I might add they quit calling it tamper proof this week)
3) Besides that, virtually NOTHING has been done to this bill.

NOW HERE ARE THE MAIN AMENDMENTS THAT WILL HAPPEN THIS WEEK:

The Bill supporters are going to introduce two amendments.
One, Senate Amendment 1183, introduced by Sen. Hillary Clinton, New York Democrat; along with Sens. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, and Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat; would perpetuate and expand the current destructive practice of "chain migration" -- that is allowing someone who has already immigrated to the United States to bring many of his relatives into the United States -- regardless of whether these people can support themselves.
The other amendment...Senate Amendment 1194, introduced by Mr. Menendez along with Mrs. Clinton; Sen. Chris Dodd, Connecticut Democrat; and Sens. Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrats; and Mr. Hagel would reduce the "backlog" of family-sponsored immigration applicants by increasing the number of green cards beyond the 600,000 already allowed for in S.1348.

Some Republicans have said they would pull their support for the bill if these amendments pass.........
BUT WAIT....
The Republicans under fire for their support already have a meaningless counter proposal designed to allow them to support these amendments.
The catchword is 'TOUCHBACK'........They are going to "stand firm" on their requirement that illegals must go back to Mexico for 1 day(or 1 hour) before returning to get their Amnesty prize........What the Republicans are holding out for in exchange for this horrible capitulation is a completely meaningless "touchback" provision -- everyone still gets their amnesty, and gets to bring over up to a dozen family members, many of whom will be too young, too old, or too sickly to work to support themselves and will thus do a job many Americans are willing to do (i.e., live off of taxpayer subsidies)

What is this touchback provision supposed to accomplish? Well, it's supposed to convince you (and they must think you're morons,) that this is 1, not an amnesty bill (we require a two hour bus ride back to Oaxaca!) and 2, we're serious about enforcement (see, we make people take unnecessary bus-trips, that's how tough we are!).

OUR MESSAGE THIS WEEK MUST BE TOUCHBACK IS A CROCK....
THIS BILL IS AMNESTY AND THEY ARE LYING IF THEY SAY IT ISN'T....
THE ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS ARE FULL OF LOOPHOLES.....
THE EMPLOYER SANCTIONS ARE DESIGNED TO LET EMPLOYERS OFF THE HOOK...
AND WE DEMAND THAT THEY KILL THIS BILL.!

SO......BACK TO THE PHONES....BACK TO THE FAXES.....BACK TO THE EMAILS....



IN OTHER NEWS......WHICH WILL GET YOUR ADRENALIN UP:

After the capture by federal authorities of six alleged Muslim terrorists, three of whom were illegal aliens, charged with planning a terrorist attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was quoted by ABC News on May 10, 2007, as saying, "I think it would be a real tragedy if we tried to make this immigration debate one dealing with terrorism."
Reid thinks it would be a tragedy if the debate over immigration addressed how potential terrorists enter the United States? Isn't the purpose of an immigration bill to regulate and restrict who enters this country? Shouldn't it be a given that terrorists are to be kept out of the U.S.?

President Bush used equally harsh language to assail his critics. "If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it. You can use it to frighten people,'' Bush said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, put it this way
"Our product is better than those who want to do nothing."

The Clarion-Ledger reports:
"We're here because we want to voice our frustration with Sen. Lott's position on the bill which will be going before the Senate next week and will extend amnesty to 12 (million) to 20 million people that are here illegally," said Rodney Hunt, MFIRE president. Hunt said illegal immigration is a national and local problem that needs to be addressed.

"There are, in the United States right now, 630,000 people who have been ordered to deport by federal immigration judges that have faded into the woodwork, and our government doesn't know where they're at," he said...

BUT....FEINSTEIN?
Sen. Feinstein (CA) was quoted in the Washington Times on Thursday as saying that she needs to receive more than 30,000 calls before she wakes up and smells the coffee.

Besides your own senators, go after the 31 Republican Senators who voted for Cloture (to allow the bill to proceed, rather than kill it).

All Senators voting to allow the bill to proceed:

Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

HERE ARE YOUR LINKS:






You can contact any of these Senators' D.C. offices by calling the toll-free switchboard at 1-866-340-9281.

Special scorn to those Republicans (in red) who negotiated this treachery!

Calling after hours, at night, or on weekends can be the most efficient way of making those calls. No busy signals, no rude/ignorant interns, just in-and-out in two minutes.

When the voice mail message comes on, quickly hit the "#" key and you will go immediately to voice mail. Sometimes you'll need to press "1" to get to the voice mail.

You'll have 1:20 to get your message across.

Tell them that:

* You want nothing to do with Comprehensive Immigration Reform;
* You see that as Amnesty, pure and simple, and that is intolerable;
* You want to see the completion of the Border Fence, not just 2 miles;
* You want to see strict compliance with the current Immigration laws:
* You want to see employers of illegals going to jail;
* You want to see the 650K criminal alien absconders previously ordered deported to be found, and kicked out before they hurt another American again;
* You want the social services and benefits cut off to illegal aliens;
* You believe that, if these steps are taken in earnest, the illegals will self-deport.

We need to keep up with our faxes and emails through the weekend and into next week. Let's run their fax machines out of paper so that every morning when they load it there will be a couple thousand faxes pending!
Send a free fax at Numbers USA
Here's a list of the fax numbers for "our" Senators:

STATE First Last Party Address Telephone FAX

AK Ted Stevens R 522 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3004 202-224-2354
AK Lisa Murkowski R 709 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6665 202-224-5301
AL Richard Shelby R 110 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5744 202-224-3416
AL Jeff Sessions R 335 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4124 202-224-3149
AR Blanche Lincoln D 355 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-4843 202-228-1371
AR Mark Pryor D 257 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2353 202-228-0908
AZ John McCain R 241 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2235 202-228-2862
AZ Jon Kyl R 730 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4521 202-224-2207
CA Dianne Feinstein D 331 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3841 202-228-3954
CA Barbara Boxer D 112 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3553 415-956-6701
CO Wayne Allard R 521 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5941 202-224-6471
CO Ken Salazar R 702 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5852 202-228-5036
CT Christopher Dodd D 448 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2823 202-224-1083
CT Joseph Lieberman D 706 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4041 202-224-9750
DE Joseph Biden D 201 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5042 202-224-0139
DE Thomas Carper D 513 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2441 202-228-2190
FL Bill Nelson D 716 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5274 202-228-2183
FL Mel Martinez R 317 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3041 202-228-5171
GA Saxby Chambliss R 416 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3521 202-224-0103
GA Johnny Isakson R 120 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3643 202-228-0724
HI Daniel Inouye D 722 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3934 202-224-6747
HI Daniel Akaka D 141 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6361 202-224-2126
IA Chuck Grassley R 135 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3744 202-224-6020
IA Tom Harkin D 731 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3254 202-224-9369
ID Larry Craig R 520 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2752 202-228-1067
ID Mike Crapo R 239 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-6142 202-228-1375
IL Richard Durbin D 332 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2152 202-228-0400
IL Barack Obama D 713 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2854 202-228-1372
IN Richard Lugar R 306 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4814 202-228-0360
IN Evan Bayh D 463 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5623 202-228-1377
KS Sam Brownback R 303 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6521 202-228-1265
KS Pat Roberts R 109 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4774 202-224-3514
KY Mitch McConnell R 361A Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2541 202-224-2499
KY Jim Bunning R 316 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4343 202-228-1373
LA Mary Landrieu D 724 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5824 202-224-9735
LA David Vitter R 516 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4623 202-228-5061
MA Edward Kennedy D 317 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4543 202-224-2417
MA John Kerry D 304 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2742 202-224-8525
MD Barbara Mikulski D 503 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4654 202-224-8858
MD Benjamin Cardin D B40B Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-4524 202-224-1651
ME Olympia Snowe R 154 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5344 202-224-1946
ME Susan Collins R 461 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2523 202-224-2693
MI Carl Levin D 269 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6221 202-224-1388
MI Debbie Stabenow D 133 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4822 202-228-0325
MN Norm Coleman R 320 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5641 202-224-1152
MN Amy Klobuchar D C4 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3244 202-228-2186
MO Christopher Bond R 274 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5721 202-224-8149
MO Claire McCaskill D 825A Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6154 202-228-1518
MS Thad Cochran R 113 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5054 202-224-9450
MS Trent Lott R 487 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6253 202-224-2262
MT Max Baucus D 511 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2651 202-224-0515
MT Jon Tester D B40E Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2644 202-228-6363
NC Elizabeth Dole R 555 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-6342 202-224-1100
NC Richard Burr R 217 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3154 202-228-2981
ND Kent Conrad D 530 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2043 202-224-7776
ND Byron Dorgan D 322 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2551 202-224-1193
NE Charles Hagel R 248 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4224 202-224-5213
NE Benjamine Nelson D 720 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6551 202-228-0012
NH Judd Gregg R 393 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3324 202-224-4952
NH John Sununu R 111 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2841 202-228-4131
NJ Frank Lautenberg D 324 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3224 202-225-4054
NJ Robert Menendez D 502 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4744 202-228-2197
NM Pete Domenici R 328 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6621 202-228-3261
NM Jeff Bingaman D 703 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5521 202-224-2852
NV Harry Reid D 528 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3542 202-224-7327
NV John Ensign R 356 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6244 202-228-2193
NY Charles Schumer D 313 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6542 202-228-3027
NY Hillary Clinton D 476 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4451 202-228-0282
OH George Voinovich R 524 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3353 202-228-1382
OH Sherrod Brown D C5 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2315 202-224-6519
OK Jim Inhofe R 453 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4721 202-228-0380
OK Tom Coburn R 172 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5754 202-224-6008
OR Ron Wyden D 230 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5244 202-228-2717
OR Gordon Smith R 404 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3753 202-228-3997
PA Arlen Specter R 711 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4254 202-228-1229
PA Bob Casey D B40C Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-6324 202-228-0604
RI Jack Reed D 728 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4642 202-224-4680
RI Sheldon Whitehouse D B40D Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2921 202-228-6362
SC Lindsey Graham R 290 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5972 202-224-3808
SC Jim DeMint R 340 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6121 202-228-5143
SD Tim Johnson D 136 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5842 202-228-5765
SD John Thune R 383 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2321 202-228-5429
TN Lamar Alexander R 302 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-4944 202-228-3398
TN Bob Corker R B40A Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-3344 202-228-1264
TX Kay Hutchison R 284 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5922 202-224-0776
TX John Cornyn R 517 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2934 202-228-2856
UT Orrin Hatch R 104 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5251 202-224-6331
UT Robert Bennett R 431 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5444 202-228-1168
VA John Warner R 225 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2023 202-224-6295
VA James Webb D C1 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4024 202-224-5432
VT Patrick Leahy D 433 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4242 202-224-3479
VT Sanders Bernard I C2 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5141 202-228-0776
WA Patty Murray D 173 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2621 202-224-0238
WA Maria Cantwell D 717 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3441 202-228-0514
WI Herb Kohl D 330 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5653 202-224-9787
WI Russell Feingold D 506 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5323 202-224-2725
WV Robert Byrd D 311 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3954 202-228-0002
WV John Rockefeller D 531 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6472 202-224-7665
WY Craig Thomas R 307 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-6441 202-224-1724
WY Mike Enzi R 379A Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3424 202-228-0359



.. in case you want to send them a message.

There's a way to get through to each Senator's chief of staff, too, without being dumped into the largely-unread public email system.

I'm told:

If one wanted to contact a particular person, (such as a Chief of Staff) you would use the following format: john_little@Martinez.senate.gov

[i.e.,FirstName_LastName@Senator'sLastName.senate.g ov]

Usually the person at the front desk will tell anyone who calls the main office phone line what the Cheif of Staff's name is. An e-mail would be sent to a different COS in the same format with the proper COS's names and the Senator's name placed in it. That message would go straight to the COS's email account/blackberry and bypass the senate "bulk e-mail" account that most unsolicited constituent e-mail goes into.
This is a critical time.

Make your calls count.

Keep up the fight!
WE WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES.
www.OperationAmerica.com

Thanks mkfarnam. I just printed this off so I can take it to work tomorrow. I want this bill to go away now. I want them to focus on border security and enforcement of current laws.

Enough is enough

Yes. Thank you...I printed it out as well. I especially like the info re: bypassing the bulk mail.


Today, I plan on attending the Presidential Debate rally and party to show support for Tom Tancredo. I will make lots of noise for Tom.

1-202-224-3121
SPEAK YOUR MIND.ONLY THEN ARE YOU SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD