Thread: ACTION ALERT!!! They want to add amnesty to FARM BILL!!!!

[quote]Stymied in their attempts to pass a massive increase in immigration, proponents of this notion are trying to attach pieces of the “comprehensiveâ€

[quote="April"][quote]Stymied in their attempts to pass a massive increase in immigration, proponents of this notion are trying to attach pieces of the “comprehensiveâ€

Originally Posted by Delta7757

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I just sent a message through your link April but I am going to send some faxes and make some calls to the Senators that voted against the last Amnesty bill do you know what happen to the list?
Do we know when this is coming to the floor or what bill it is in?

We not only got the 40 votes we needed to win, we got 53!!!!

Alaska: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Ted Stevens
Arkansas: Sen. Mark Pryor
Iowa: Sen. Tom Harkin

Kansas: Sen. Sam Brownback
Kentucky: Sen. Mitch McConnell
Maine: Sen. Susan Collins

Minnesota: Sen. Norm Coleman
Missouri: Sen. Kit Bond
Nebraska: Sen. Ben Nelson

Nevada: Sen. John Ensign
New Mexico: Sen. Jeff Bingaman
North Carolina: Sen. Richard Burr

Ohio: Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. George Voinovich
Virginia: Sen. John Warner, Sen. Jim Webb

We have a new fax for you to thank these Senators. Right now, please forgive all past transgressions and just let them feel the love. Let them know how much better it feels to stand with the majority of voters in your state on this contentious issue.

If you want to call one of their offices and give them Thirty Seconds of Thanks, get the numbers from your My Members page at:
www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers


ALL SENATORS WHO VOTED NO ON AMNESTY TODAY


Alabama: Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. Richard Shelby
Alaska: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Ted Stevens
Arkansas: Sen Mark Pryor

Colorado: Sen. Wayne Allard
Georgia: Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Johnny Isakson
Idaho: Sen. Michael Crapo

Indiana: Sen. Evan Bayh
Iowa: Sen. Tom Harkin, Sen. Charles Grassley
Kansas: Sen. Sam Brownback, Sen. Pat Roberts

Kentucky: Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Jim Bunning
Louisiana: Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. David Vitter
Maine: Sen. Susan Collins

Michigan: Sen. Debbie Stabenow
Minnesota: Sen. Norm Coleman
Mississippi: Sen. Thad Cochran

Missouri: Sen. Kit Bond, Sen. Claire McCaskill
Montana: Sen. Max Baucus, Sen. Jon Tester
Nebraska: Sen. Ben Nelson

New Hampshire: Sen. John Sununu
Nevada: Sen. John Ensign
New Mexico: Sen. Jeff Bingman, Sen. Pete Domenici

North Carolina: Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Elizabeth Dole
North Dakota: Sen. Byron Dorgan
Ohio: Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. George Voinovich

Oklahoma: Sen. Tom Coburn, Sen. Jim Inhofe
Oregon: Sen. Gordon Smith
South Carolina: Sen. Jim DeMint

South Dakota: Sen. John Thune
Tennessee: Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker
Texas: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Sen. John Cornyn

Utah: Sen. Orrin Hatch
Vermont: Sen. Bernie Sanders
Virginia: Sen. John Warner, Sen. Jim Webb

West Virginia: Sen. Robert Byrd, Sen. Jay Rockefeller
Wyoming: Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. Mike Enzi

We also have thank you faxes to those Senators who voted NO on amnesty both Tuesday and today.

So much congratulations to those of you who persuaded BOTH your Senators to stand with the American people.

For those of you who didn't persuade even one Senator, you clearly live in a tough state politically. But I hope some of the victories today will encourage you to keep trying.

We proved that Democratic-dominated states no longer have to go for the open borders side. ONE-THIRD of the Senate Democrats voted with us today.


THE GREAT PROTECTORS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND OUTLAW BUSINESSES


Arizona: Sen. John Kyl, Sen. John McCain
Arkansas: Sen. Blanche Lincoln
California: Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. Diane Feinstein

Colorado: Sen. Ken Salazar
Connecticut: Sen. Joe Lieberman, Sen. Chris Dodd
Delaware: Sen. Joseph Biden, Sen. Tom Carper

Florida: Sen. Mel Martinez, Sen. Bill Nelson
Hawaii: Sen. Daniel Akaka, Sen. Daniel Inouye
Idaho: Sen. Larry Craig

Illinois: Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Barack Obama
Indiana: Sen. Dick Lugar
Maine: Sen. Olympia Snowe

Maryland: Sen. Ben Cardin, Sen. Barbara Mikulski
Massachusetts: Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. John Kerry
Michigan: Sen. Carl Levin

Minnesota: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Mississippi: Sen. Trent Lott
Nebraska: Sen. Chuck Hagel

Nevada: Sen. Harry Reid
New Hampshire: Sen. Judd Gregg
New Jersey: Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Sen. Robert Menendez

New York: Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer
North Dakota: Sen. Kent Conrad
Oregon: Sen. Ron Wyden

Pennsylvania: Sen. Robert Casey, Sen. Arlen Specter
Rhode Island: Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
South Carolina: Sen. Lindsay Graham

Utah: Sen. Bob Bennett
Vermont: Sen. Patrick Leahy
Washington: Sen. Maria Cantwell, Sen. Patty Murray
Wisconsin: Sen. Russ Feingold, Sen. Herb Kohl


I'm trying to find ph#'s. I hope this is the list you meant.

Thanks Delta this helps alot!! April posted Phone #s

I am posting thread link with phone numbers,email and fax info again:

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=68216

Lets make our voices heard!!!! They must not be allowed to do this again. If anyone has any more info on this please post!!!! Thanks!

You guys really need to listen to this. It was a radio interview with Mike Crapo (I) just yesterday or the day before, I think. Near the beginning he talks about the Farm Bill, then 3/4 of the way through, he talks about the AgJobs Bill and how Congress is trying to put pieces of the immigration bill in separately.

http://crapo.senate.gov/multimedia/audi ... _10_07.mp3

I found this on his website, in case it doesn't work.

[quote="SOSADFORUS"][quote="April"][quote]Stymied in their attempts to pass a massive increase in immigration, proponents of this notion are trying to attach pieces of the “comprehensiveâ€

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

You guys really need to listen to this. It was a radio interview with Mike Crapo (I) just yesterday or the day before, I think. Near the beginning he talks about the Farm Bill, then 3/4 of the way through, he talks about the AgJobs Bill and how Congress is trying to put pieces of the immigration bill in separately.

http://crapo.senate.gov/multimedia/audi ... _10_07.mp3

I found this on his website, in case it doesn't work.

I hear you Tiny!!!! I will get a Blitz thread going tomorrow and hopefully eveyone will be fired up again to save out country because this fight is not OVER YET!! They are going to do the push comes to shove thing and once again they have underestimated the American people!

Originally Posted by April

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

You guys really need to listen to this. It was a radio interview with Mike Crapo (I) just yesterday or the day before, I think. Near the beginning he talks about the Farm Bill, then 3/4 of the way through, he talks about the AgJobs Bill and how Congress is trying to put pieces of the immigration bill in separately.

http://crapo.senate.gov/multimedia/audi ... _10_07.mp3

I found this on his website, in case it doesn't work.

I hear you Tiny!!!! I will get a Blitz thread going tomorrow and hopefully eveyone will be fired up again to save out country because this fight is not OVER YET!! They are going to do the push comes to shove thing and once again they have underestimated the American people!

April when you do the Blitz thread explain we do not have a bill number but we must get on this right away as they are trying to combine these bills, if they know we will not go for it we may be able to stop them before they piece this piece of crap together.
We also need to get it out to talk radio and MSM Lou, etc. I will do Lou and ORielly., Hannity tonight and get them out of the way.

Tiny, couldn't get the link to work going to Crapo's sight right now to watch!!

SOSAD, I just tried it from the post and it was working okay for me. Sorry you had trouble with it.

They are in the planning and putting together stages. They need to be slammed!!!! This is a June 29 article, they started planning right after we stopped them last time.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/ ... cs_2997692

AP) Hours after a massive immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, lawmakers and lobbyists began seeking ways to pass bits and pieces of the measure important to their constituents.

A priority for many farm groups is the "Ag jobs" component, one of several programs now needing a new legislative vehicle. It would legalize about 1 million undocumented agricultural workers in the U.S., a key goal of growers whose crops can rot in the fields if not harvested at key times by people willing to work hard at low wages.

The program is considered relatively popular, as is another piece of the stalled bill: the DREAM Act, or Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. It would create a path to legality for illegal immigrants planning to attend college or join the military and who came to the United States with their families before they turned 16.

Some lawmakers said they hope Congress will enact such programs as stand-alone bills fairly soon. Others, however, said it will be difficult to pass even non-controversial parts by themselves. Backers of items likely to be left out, they said, will resist losing the political leverage that a multifaceted package can provide.

In an interview earlier this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. — a backer of the sidetracked bill — said the one-at-a-time approach may prove impossible, even for tougher border-enforcement measures that now seem popular.

"The only way we're going to get Ag jobs or DREAM Act" or pathways to legal status for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, Graham said, "is to do it together. This idea of 'Just do the enforcement,' there are no votes for that."

Other Republicans, especially in the House, disagree. All immigration-related proposals should be postponed, they said, until the Mexican border is secured.

"The American people believe that until we're able to secure our borders and enforce our laws, taking additional steps is really not in the best interests of the country," House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after Thursday's crucial Senate vote that derailed the bill.

Some lawmakers immediately urged President Bush to accept defeat on the wide-ranging bill and ask Congress for an emergency spending bill for more border enforcement activities. "That would be a great next step after this vote," said Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who opposed the bill.

Some lawmakers said it hardly matters, however, because enough money and authority already are in place to do the job.

There should be "a very strong sense of urgency in this country to simply carry out the law, the mandate, for 854 miles of fence that we passed" in the 109th Congress, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told reporters Thursday. "They've only built 13 miles of the fence so far. Let's get it built before the next hot season."

While the security debate simmers, the farm lobby will push for Ag jobs, immigrant advocacy groups will fight for the DREAM Act, and other interest groups will seek avenues for similar pet projects. Some legislative leaders Thursday were noncommittal on how they might fare.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., was asked if his caucus would support Ag jobs by itself. Most Republicans would back a similar program, he said, but he added: "The concern that House Republicans have and have had for some time now is the order in which these things are accomplished. You have securing the border, being sure that workers who are here appropriately are here with ID that's verifiable, that's reasonably hard to duplicate."

Paul Schlegel, public policy director for the American Farm Bureau, said in an interview, "It's a little soon to handicap" the Ag jobs program's future. "The administration has said all along they want a comprehensive approach," he said, and the bureau has worked in concert with the White House thus far.

The immigration bill's collapse forces all key players to rethink their next moves. Individual components may gain support in the coming weeks, but it won't be easy, several lawmakers said.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in an interview before Thursday's vote: "I think it's pretty hard, the way things are set up here, to get anything done on immigration that's not part of a package." © MMVII The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.