Call your Representative to support amendments denying Social Security to illegal aliens




CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REDUCTION AMENDMENTS

We are asking for your help today and tomorrow to call your Representative and ask them to support two illegal immigration-reductions amendments expected to come to the floor of the House this week.

One amendment will be offered by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and one amendment will be offered by Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ). See details below.

You will recall that your phone calls last week were instrumental in passing an illegal immigration-reduction amendment offered by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to dissuade cities from adopting "sanctuary policies" to protect illegal aliens.

KING AMENDMENT TO DENY IN-STATE TUITION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS

Rep. Steve King is going to offer an amendment to the Labor/HHS appropriations bill that will effectively prohibit states from rewarding illegal aliens with in-state tuition rates. This is essentially the same amendment that passed by voice vote last year.

The King Amendment basically says that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by the Labor/HHS appropriations Act may be used in contravention of 8 USC 1623(a). (This section of law prohibits states from providing taxpayer subsidized in-state college tuition to illegal aliens unless the states also provide the same benefit to Americans from other states.)

HAYWORTH AMENDMENT TO DENY SOCIAL SECURITY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS

Rep. Hayworth is going to offer an amendment to the Labor/HHS appropriations bill that will prohibit any funding in the bill from being used to pay Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to administer any benefits that would not be payable but for a totalization agreement with Mexico. The effect of this would be to prevent the U.S.-Mexico totalization agreement from taking effect -- at least during this Fiscal Year -- since SSA employees could not be paid for any work they do to determine or pay benefits under the agreement. The U.S.-Mexico totalization agreement would allow both legal AND illegal aliens working in the United States to qualify for Social Security benefits.

WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL

Your message can be as simple as:

"This is ________. I am calling from _____ to ask Rep. _____ to vote in favor of the King Amedment to the Labor/HHS appropriations bill to deny in-state tuition to illegal aliens. I would also like to ask Rep. _____ to vote in favor of the Hayworth amendment to the Labor/HSS appropriations bill to stop Social Security for illegal aliens from Mexico."


PHONE NUMBERS

Phone numbers

You can find your Representative's phone number online here:

http://www.numbersusa.com/myMembers

or here:

http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/



THANK YOU

We realize this is short notice, but appreciate all of you who are able to call your Representative today or tomorrow.

We will let you know the results of the vote.

ANNE