Thread: FAIR Urgent Call Your Rep NOW!

From: Federation for American Immigration Reform Date: 2007/05/15 Tue AM 11:18:39 EST
Subject: Urgent - Call Your Representative NOW...Oppose Guest Worker Amnesty!

Decision on Immigration Reform May Come Within 24 Hours!
Call Your Representatives NOW to Tell Them You Oppose Guest Worker Amnesty!

Once again, FAIR is urging all of our members to IMMEDIATELY CALL your Representatives and Senators to urge them to reject the all guest worker amnesty legislation!!! THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE!

Right now, amnesty proponents are using a dual track to get a guest worker amnesty bill through Congress. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reintroduced last year's notorious guest worker amnesty bill, now numbered S.1348, and announced that he will use Senate Rule 14 to skip the committee process and bring the bill directly to the Senate floor on WEDNESDAY!!! At that time, according to Senator Reid, the Senate will vote on a motion to proceed with debate.

Meanwhile, a group of about ten Senators, led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), has been negotiating behind closed doors with the White House to create a new guest worker amnesty plan-one they hope will buy off more Republican support. According to various news sources, this plan is similar to one proposed by the White House at the end of March. That plan contained a new Z visa program that would allow illegal aliens to stay and work in the United States indefinitely. It also contained two guest worker programs for high-skilled and low-skilled workers that would allow hundreds of thousands of foreign workers come to the U.S. to compete with American workers.

Negotiators are hoping that if they can get a compromise finished by TONIGHT, they will bring the new language to the floor on Wednesday amend it onto the Senate bill instead of debating last year's language. But whichever proposal lands on the floor, the Senate is on track to pass guest worker amnesty legislation unless you stop it!!

It is IMPERATIVE that you call your Representatives and Senators IMMEDIATELY and tell them you oppose both last year's bill and the White House plan.

Please call your members and tell them that true immigration reform means creating an immigration policy that serves our national interests. We must stop illegal immigration by securing our borders and punishing employers who hire illegal aliens. Creating guest worker programs or granting amnesty to law breakers will do nothing to stop illegal immigration and will only further burden our broken immigration system. Moreover, granting amnesty fundamentally unfair to those all over the world, who play by the rules and patiently wait in line.

CALL YOUR MEMBERS AND URGE THEM TO REJECT BOTH GUEST WORKER AMNESTY PROPOSALS!!!