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A Note from Stone: June 26, 2013
U.S. House - Amnesty's Final Battlefield:
Why a Georgia House Race Matters to You and the Nation
Dear Fellow Conservatives;
I'm John Stone, and what is happening this week in the U.S. Senate is a prime reason I'm running for Congress in Georgia's 12th District. I would like to tell you why that should matter to you and the nation.



Arizona, 2005: Illegal aliens flee border patrol through desert: Photo by John Stone
As most of you know, the U.S. Senate is voting on and expected to pass yet another "comprehensive" immigration reform package, granting immediate amnesty to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in our country. This is the same empty promise of 1986, to secure our border sometime over the next 10 years while granting amnesty up front.

What all is wrong with this bill? Rather than list every point, I ask you to read this week's editorial on Red State by one of our few true constitutional patriots in the U.S. Senate, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who points out every flaw in the bill. As Senator Cruz points out, the flaws are not just in the bill, but the process by which it has been rammed through the Senate without a chance for full debate and with all reasonable amendments blocked, just like Obamacare.

REAL BORDER SECURITY EXPERIENCE
Our border stands wide-open for a stampede of illegal immigration if this passes. How do I know? In 2005 while working for the late Congressman Charlie Norwood (R-GA), I was the lead field investigator for a House Immigration Reform Caucus investigation of the Minutemen project. Unlike the typical congressional foray, I led my team without DHS accompaniment into the desert of Arizona where the Minutemen were deployed on the border. There we talked with volunteers, landowners, business owners, deputies, and off-duty Border Patrol officers about what was really happening on the border, and how to fix it.

The result was the landmark study I wrote for Congressman Norwood, Results and Implications of the Minuteman Project, which first recommended placing National Guard and State Defense Force troops on the border. The Bush Administration partially implemented that plan under pressure from Rep. Norwood and other Republicans, but with only 6,000 troops instead of the 36,000 called for in the study. You can read my feature article in Human Events on the outcome. The troop deployment to secure our border has since been pushed heavily by Heritage Foundation in their recommendations for immigration reform.

2010: Lead House Investigator John Stone (center) with Texas Border Sheriffs

Then in 2010 while working for now-Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-TX), I led another team back to the border under the same unescorted conditions. This time we drove 1,000 miles of the Texas border along the Rio Grande from Laredo to El Paso. The Texas border sheriffs told us they were being overrun, and made three requests – help hiring more deputies, better National Guard support, and E-Verify as a national condition of employment. They said eliminating the job magnet for illegal immigration would cut 90% of the problem, allowing them to effectively focus on the remaining drug runners and human traffickers. That report, Broken Neighbor, Broken Border, spurred the writing of three powerful bills for Congressman Carter – the Southern Border Sheriffs Community Impact Aid Act to increase deputy patrols in border counties; the Border States Security Act to allow Governors to call forth their National Guard and State Defense Forces at federal expense to secure the border, and the Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act to mandate the E-Verify system to end the use of fake identification for employment in the U.S.

HERE'S WHERE I STAND – BORDER SECURITY FIRST
We need to secure our border. We need to secure our workplace to end the jobs magnet for illegal immigration. We need the states to certify that this has been done, NOT the federal government which has a decades-long track record of unreliability on this issue.

When those two goals are certified as met by the states, THEN we can deal with those already here illegally. That solution should not involve the straw man argument that those opposed to amnesty intend to round up and deport 11 million people, but it also cannot include amnesty that makes a mockery of our Rule of Law.

From my work with Chairman Carter, I believe the House will pass this better bill. It will not include all the measures that need to be included, such as the Sheriffs and Border troop measures, so that must be tackled in the future. The House and Senate will then attempt to hash out the differences between their bills. The still remaining threat is that RINOs will try to push the Senate bill through the House with a handful of squish Republicans and a majority of Democrats. But I believe the most likely outcome will be the issue will die for this session of Congress, leaving all this up to the new Congress elected in November 2014. That election must result in a House that will continue to stand firm in 2015, if we are to save our Republic.

FIGHTING FOR AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
Before any of us cast our vote for a Republican nominee for those upcoming primary elections, we need to know precisely where the candidates stand on this pivotal issue. You can read where I stand, with a years-long track record of specific legislation I originated and wrote on this issue, and active field investigations on the border - all linked in this email.

I face a self-funded establishment Republican in my primary who has already refused to debate on this issue. The same no-debate tactic Senator Ted Cruz is blasting Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid over. No debates, no specifics, just pile on the money and hope to buy the nomination. It is a pattern we see nationwide, with a new batch of self-funded establishment Republicans seeking to fill seats without any commitment to true conservative values, such as opposition to amnesty.

If you want to block the amnesty stampede that could ruin this country forever, I MUST have financial support from supporters of true immigration reform to compete in this race RIGHT NOW.

Please send everything you can THIS week, either by mail to John Stone for Congress at 2803 Wrightsboro Road, Suite 15-351, Augusta, GA 30909, or donate now online at www.johnstoneforcongress.com/donations. America desperately needs a new batch of true conservative House members to head off the finale on this debate which will likely occur in 2015 after the 2014 elections. The result of those elections will be the cue whether America will continue to be a sovereign nation with secure borders.

If I am going to be part of the House that casts those key votes, I need your help right now. Please send as much as you can now, whether $25, $50, $100, $250, or $1,000. Don't wait till later, as what we raise early will determine the course of this election. The maximum donation allowed by the Federal Election Commission per person per election this year is $2,600.

Thank you in advance for your support, and may God Bless you and your family and our great nation.

John E. Stone
Republican Candidate
U.S. House of Representatives
12th Congressional District of Georgia

P.S. Please make your donation by Friday, as the Federal Election Commission requires us to report by that date, and the total amount we raise will play a big role in determining momentum in this race!



John Stone for Congress
www.JohnStoneforCongress.com
2803 Wrightsboro Road
Suite 15-351
Augusta, GA 30909

(424) 201-5476