Thread: **CRITICAL TO CONTACT THESE SENATORS**

We all must contact Senator Lamar Alexander's and Senator Bob Corker's Offices today. These Senators are working with Kay Bailey Hutchinson to make the Senate Bill more acceptable to some holdouts.

PLEASE Contact their Offices in Washington, or if busy their Tennessee offices or other listed numbers.

http://alexander.senate.gov/index.cfm?F ... ntact.home

http://alexander.senate.gov/index.cfm?F ... ct.Offices

Email:
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http://www.lamaralexander.com/index.cfm ... actUs.Home

SENATOR BOB CORKER

http://corker.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm


Don't forget Alexander came up with the lame idea that 3 out of 4 border governors will sign off on the security of the border along with Secretary Chertoff.

Senator Bob Corker of Chattanooga is from a city overrun with illegals, gangs, drugs, and other criminal actiivty. ICE, the Dept of Homeland Security and local law enforcement form gang suppression units to keep the city under control.

(quote)

Senators bargain for votes to revive stalled immigration bill

Alexander and Corker co-sponsor provision to toughen application requirement

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Associated Press Writer


Published: Saturday, 06/16/07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Tennessee Republicans are co-sponsors of a compromise that could help keep an immigration reform bill alive.

Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker have co-sponsored a provision crafted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, to toughen a requirement that unlawful immigrants seeking green cards return home to apply for permanent legal residency.

Senate leaders' announcement Thursday that they would allow the immigration bill a second chance came after getting assurances from key negotiators that they could produce enough support to steer the measure through a procedural minefield, including attempts by conservatives to block it.

The fragile compromise would grant millions of illegal immigrants lawful status while tightening border security and creating new measures for weeding out illegal workers at job sites. Championed by President Bush, it has sparked an outcry among conservatives who regard it as amnesty for lawbreakers.

An appearance by Bush on Capitol Hill this week to prod action on the measure -- and his subsequent OK to immediately pumping a new $4.4 billion into border security -- helped set the stage for its resurrection. But it was raw trolling for votes by key Republicans and Democrats that made the difference, said lawmakers and senior officials involved in the talks.

The coalition drew up a tentative list of 22 amendments _ divided equally between the two parties -- whose consideration would give a handful of Republicans the comfort they needed to allow the bill to go forward. That would take 60 votes -- a threshold the bill missed by 15 last week, when just seven Republicans backed ending debate and moving to complete the bill.

Allowing votes on the proposals "has as its goal bringing more people on board," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a lead Republican negotiator, said in an interview Friday. "They're going to get input that will make them feel better," Graham said of wavering Republicans.

"I do believe that with this new process, there will be enough votes to get to final passage, but the pressure's immense," Graham said. "I'll be going senator to senator" next week to persuade Republicans to back it.

Bush plans to keep blocks of time open next week in order to be able to jump in as needed with pointed remarks and calls or meetings with lawmakers, aides said.

"Each day our nation fails to act the problem only grows worse," the president said Friday at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. "I will continue to work closely with members of both parties to get past our differences and pass a bill I can sign this year."

The package is not yet final, and key players probably will be hammering it out even as it unfolds on the Senate floor -- as has been typical of the delicate immigration deal, the product of virtually constant negotiation and renegotiation this spring.

For some GOP holdouts, the promise of votes to make the bill more punitive toward the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants who would get lawful status might be enough to persuade them to support moving ahead.

Negotiators hope that's the case for Alexander, Corker and Hutchinson.

Under the emerging framework, there would be a vote on a their proposal to require all illegal immigrants to go home within two years in order to receive a Z visa to live and work lawfully in the U.S.

The plan also is expected to allow a vote on an amendment by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining lawful status until border security and workplace enforcement measures were accomplished. As written, the bill would allow those immigrants to gain probationary legal status to live and work in the U.S. until the so-called triggers were in place.

Proponents of the bill are hoping others will like the prospect of the binding commitment of new money for strict border security and workplace enforcement measures. That proposal is geared toward satisfying the concerns of Georgia Republican Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, who have called on the Bush administration to request separate emergency funding for those purposes before any action on a broader immigration bill.

Key Republicans also believe they can secure the backing of some centrists who supported an immigration overhaul last year, including Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. To better their chances of persuading him, they are expected to allow Coleman a second vote on his proposal -- narrowly defeated last month -- to allow law enforcement officials to question people about their immigration status.

Seemingly resigned to the bill's passage, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., now says he plans to block a conference that would be needed to reconcile House and Senate versions before an immigration bill could be signed into law, his office said on Friday.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., "has sold us another bill of goods and I don't trust him to make even more changes to it behind closed doors in a conference with the House," DeMint said through a spokesman.

Democrats, too, were looking for ways to appease skeptics within their ranks.
Among the proposals that would see a vote under the still-incomplete plan, according to aides and lobbyists familiar with it, is one that would increase the number of green cards available for family members of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal is not final.

Another proposal expected to be considered would remove a measure known as REAL ID, which requires states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally.(quote)

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... S/70616006


Chattanooga is a few minutes from Dalton, GA already consumed by illegal aliens, crime, drugs, gangs. Spanish is the norm and the FBI and ICE have regualr visits to this area. Cleveland, Tn is now a de facto sanctuary city with MS 13 gang activity in schools, on the streets, drugs, crime, increased DUI's, and a total lack of enforcement of housing codes for overcrowding of homes and apartments harboring illegal aliens. Mayor Tom Rowland of Cleveland, TN and the City Council has been approached about the 287 (g). The Mayor nor the Police Chief Wes Snyder have showed signs of stepping forward protecting Cleveland, TN.

GeorgiaPeach posted:

**CRITICAL TO CONTACT THESE SENATORS**

Would you please post this or a modified version here where it will keep going and reach more folks!!! It's very important info--let's get it out there as much as we can!!!!


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