Thread: What Does Amnesty Have to Do With Funding Our Troops?

What Does Granting Amnesty Have to Do With Funding Our Troops in Iraq?

Ira Mehlman

There is an unwritten rule in Congress that the appropriations process should not be used to pass major legislation. So when the Senate Appropriations Committee makes an exception to this rule, you can bet that they are doing so only to deal with some burning crisis.

For the Senate Appropriations Committee to break with tradition, the interests at stake must be so compelling that circumstances demand that the cumbersome legislative process be bypassed and that the issue be dealt with immediately. And when the legislation gets tacked on to not just any old appropriations bill, but an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to fund our servicemen and women fighting in Iraq, one can assume that the most vital national interests hang in the balance.

What were the compelling interests that led the august Senate Appropriations Committee to include major legislation as part of the military spending bill on Thursday? Amnesty for illegal aliens, and lots of new foreign workers for powerful business interests.

In one afternoon, the Appropriations Committee approved amnesty for 1.35 million illegal alien agricultural workers, and made available an additional 650,000 skilled and unskilled foreign guest workers over the next three years. That’s 2 million new, or newly legalized, foreign workers entering our labor force over the next three years – even as our economy has been losing jobs.

The 2 million figure does not include the dependents of the amnesty recipients or new workers who could be admitted under existing agricultural guest worker programs. Under the agricultural amnesty – written by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at the behest of the California agricultural lobby – the spouses of amnesty recipients will also be authorized to compete with American workers for jobs in any sector of our labor market. Nor does it include the potentially unlimited number of new guest workers agricultural employers will be able to import under a “streamlinedâ€

Send this to every Senator this weekend!!!

This bit of stupidity is one more reason to get rid of the "tenured"
DINOSAURS IN CONGRESS.

They still don't get it.......WE CAN'T BE FOOLED ANYMORE.

WE HAVE SEEN EVERY BIT OF SUBTERFUGE YOU CAN PULL SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2007 AND YOUR TIME IS RUNNING SHORT.

There is an unwritten rule in Congress that the appropriations process should not be used to pass major legislation. So when the Senate Appropriations Committee makes an exception to this rule, you can bet that they are doing so only to deal with some burning crisis.

It has been proven that our elected officials are incapable of obeying an "unwritten" rule regarding appropriations and the piggybacking of attachements which would have never seen the light of day on their own merits. Obviously, the term "burning crisis" is quite subjective as Feinstein has clearly demonstrated.

Their now needs to be a written, "formal" rule that would forbid this process. If legislation is so important and needed, it shall be discussed and passed on it's own merits and not attached to other legislation which may be needed and approved of.

Pretty shady people on the hill . Everyone has got to go except a hand full of Patriots .
Isn't Feinsteins Amnesty on hold till Thursday ? Don't we have a host of Senators ready to fight it ?
I'm even being stood-up by both my sorry Senators . Not even a form letter.
they are that yellow and classless

Unfortunately, Feinstein happens to be my Senator. Just sent this to the witch. Also sent to Barbara Boxer.

Let's stay active; keep calling, faxing etc.

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Call the Senate: NO AgJobs Amnesty !

Originally Posted by Populist

Let's stay active; keep calling, faxing etc.

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Call the Senate: NO AgJobs Amnesty !

Did that too...
Made calls and sent e-mails.

Amnesty has about as much to do with funding our troops, as REAL ID does. The same tactic was used to make REAL ID the law of the land.