Thread: IFIRE URGENT ALERT

From: "Cheree" <tony1946@comcast.net> Add to Address Book
Date: 2006/02/08 Wed PM 01:26:21 EST
Subject: Fw: ****IFIRE Alert****



Dear IFIRE friends:

I couldn't have said it better than Tish, co-director of the new IFIRE chapter in Indianapolis!

The President's budget request is arrogant, insulting and outrageous! A guestworker program has not even been passed by Congress, yet he budgets for it while failing to sufficiently fund immigration enforcement provisions that have already passed! I would say this is a stab in the back but it's more like a stab in the heart of hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying Americans!

It's critical that your representatives hear from you on this, no matter what state you live in.

Cheree
www.ifire.org
Valparaiso, IN


The President has requested $247 million in his budget for implementing his "temporary guest worker" program, while he has only requested a combined total of $153 million for immigration enforcement and voluntary employer verification of worker eligibility. This is an outrage! They want to steal more of our hard-earned dollars in order to REWARD illegal aliens! Please write, call or fax your Senators, the President and Vice President to tell them to REJECT this request!

Contact info., below, is followed by the letter I sent today, via e-mail and fax. Go get them, folks. They're going to keep ignoring us just as long as we let them!

Tish

George W. Bush

President (R)



Web:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/


E-mail:

comments@whitehouse.gov


Phone:

(202) 456-1414


Fax:

(202) 456-2461


Address:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
The White House
Washington, District of Columbia 20500-0003




Richard 'Dick' B. Cheney

Vice President (R)



Web:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/


E-mail:

vice.president@whitehouse.gov


Phone:

(202) 456-1414


Fax:

(202) 456-7044


Address:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
The White House
Washington, District of Columbia 20500-0003




Laura Bush

First Lady (R)



Web:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/


E-mail:

first.lady@whitehouse.gov


Phone:

(202) 456-1414


Fax:

(202) 456-2461


Address:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
The White House
Washington, District of Columbia 20500-0003




Evan Bayh

US Senator for Indiana (D)



Web:

http://bayh.senate.gov


E-mail:

Email Web Form


Phone:

(202) 224-5623


Fax:

(202) 228-1377


Address:

United States Senate
463 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, District of Columbia 20510-0001




Richard 'Dick' G. Lugar

US Senator for Indiana (R)



Web:

http://lugar.senate.gov


E-mail:

senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov


Phone:

(202) 224-4814


Fax:

(202) 228-0360


Address:

United States Senate
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, District of Columbia 20510-0001



President George W. Bush

Vice President Richard B. Cheney

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Northwest

The White House

Washington, District of Columbia 20500-0003



All Members of the United States Senate

Washington, District of Columbia 20510-0001





Dear Mr. President, Mr. Vice President and People of the Senate,



I am writing you after learning that $247 million has been requested in the budget to implement a Temporary Guest Worker Program for illegal aliens in our country, while only $153 million is being requested for immigration enforcement and voluntary employer verification of worker eligibility. I urge you to reject this proposal.



With all due respect, this proposal is insane. Americans are already paying billions of dollars each and every year because the federal government has ignored our country’s immigration laws. And now you want more of our money so you can reward illegal aliens for breaking our laws? As an American who voted for you twice, Mr. President, I am appalled. Illegal aliens cost us too much as it is, and they are taking our jobs. Between the years 2000 and 2004, approximately 1.8 million jobs were created. However, the jobs held by native born Americans during that time period actually DECREASED by half a million. Jobs held by the foreign born, including illegal aliens, rose by 1.3 million. Americans are actually being displaced because our government refuses to enforce our country’s laws!! Under those circumstances, how can any United States politician promote legalizing, temporary or otherwise, illegal alien workers? You were all elected to look after your constituents’ best interests, not that of illegal aliens’.



We need our laws enforced, not ignored under pressure of wailing Latin American government officials or American businesses. Rampant immigration only benefits them. It does not benefit Americans as a whole. It is harmful for young American men, especially African Americans who are disproportionately affected, looking for entry level jobs into various industries, jobs which are being given to illegal aliens who will work for lower wages and, in many cases, for cash under the table. The massive influx of illegal aliens over the past decade has also been particularly harmful to our school children whose classes are held back because of the extra time needed to teach English to illegal alien children or children of illegal aliens. The cost to teach English as a second language alone is costing your constituents tens of billions of dollars annually.



American jobs are being taken by illegal and legal aliens in the United States. They are not simply taking jobs that Americans will not do, and this has repeatedly been proven in various recent studies. American workers have to, in many instances, compete with groups of low wage illegal aliens in various industries and jobs – construction, food service, pipefitting, and roofing, just to name a few. Making illegal aliens legal will not help those you were elected to look after – your American constituents.



This does not even take into consideration the numerous other ways Americans are negatively impacted by rampant immigration. Your constituents pay higher medical bills to cover for the costs of care illegal aliens receive but cannot pay for. Hospitals, wherein your constituents are working, are forced to close down services, costing your constituents jobs, because caring for illegal aliens has become too costly. Your constituents are paying higher insurance premiums to cover for the costs of uninsured illegal alien drivers. Your constituents are paying higher education costs because of the influx of people who have come, and continue to come, here illegally. The costs to incarcerate illegal aliens, which reaches tens of billions of dollars annually, are also paid by your constituents, an expense that would not exist had our laws simply been enforced and respected. We are seeing a resurgence of diseases once thought long gone, such as tuberculosis, in cities where high populations of illegal aliens are found. Many of these cases are found to be “drug resistant,â€

Something tells me he better start listening. It's as though you can feel the situation getting extremely heated up. Does anyone else feel that way ?

8:00 pm EST

I just read a district in Texas, wants to hire illegal aliens to teach in their schools....yep, Spanish teachers!

Why are our laws so hard to follow for so many?

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

It's as though you can feel the situation getting extremely heated up. Does anyone else feel that way ?

I feel the same way. I've even emailed Reps. and told them I felt there would be unrest in the streets if they let this continue to fester.

You can feel the anger come across in some of the news stories!