Thread: AG JOBS AMNESTY BEING DEBATED NOW!!!!PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

Should we still use the other thread for the action thread?

I'm on it and have been calling. Remember, as FAIR noted, Sen. Feinstein's changes are meaningless.

PLEASE EVERYONE, CALL, DON'T LET THEM SNEAK THIS HUGE AMNESTY THROUGH!

Originally Posted by Populist

Should we still use the other thread for the action thread?

I'm on it and have been calling. Remember, as FAIR noted, Sen. Feinstein's changes are meaningless.

PLEASE EVERYONE, CALL, DON'T LET THEM SNEAK THIS HUGE AMNESTY THROUGH!

I started this thread to bring attention to the urgency of the matter, so it might be good to keep posting on it so it stays at the top. PLEASE EVERYONE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!! CALL FAX AND EMAIL!! MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND THAT NO MEANS NO!!!!

Sounds good April. Everyone, let's call, fax etc. !

Does anyone have a feel about where we stand???????

There they go again- using that "comprehensive"word. You know that its a bad plan when that word comes up.

Originally Posted by butterbean

There they go again- using that "comprehensive"word. You know that its a bad plan when that word comes up.

They can use all the BS they want , it is not going to fly!!!! WE ARE AS MAD AS HELL AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!

It's hard to say redbadger. There's about 30 co-sponsors of AgJOBS, other senators want to keep the immigration AgJOBS debate out of the already contentious Farm Bill, but there are powerful interests pushing AgJOBS and "lobbying furiously" for its passage, and many Senate offices advising "no statement" yet. So we have to keep fighting.

Here's some main points against the AgJOBS amnesty just released by the Center for Immigration Studies:

"For several years stories in the media have reported a farm labor shortage. This study examines this question and finds little evidence to support this conclusion. First, fruit and vegetable production is actually rising. Second, wages for farm workers have not risen dramatically. [If there were a shortage, wages would be rising much more rapidly.] Third, household expenditure on fresh fruits and vegetables has remain relatively constant, averaging about $1 a day for the past decade."

http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back907.html

OK I am still here and have been faxing since Spectors office pissed me off.

LETS KEEP THE CALLS GOING SO THEY HEAR US LOAD AND CLEAR!!

Chambless said he wants to hurry and get this bill to conference!

CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL AND KEEP CALLING!!!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

OK I am still here and have been faxing since Spectors office pissed me off.

LETS KEEP THE CALLS GOING SO THEY HEAR US LOAD AND CLEAR!!

Chambless said he wants to hurry and get this bill to conference!

CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL AND KEEP CALLING!!!

THANKS SOSAD!!! LETS LET THEM HEAR US ROAR!!!

In case anyone missed this:

Ok, here is a preliminary list, based on the limited info we have at this time; on Senators who apparently have not yet taken a public position and/or are not listed as co-sponsors of AgJOBS. So please include them in calls. Correct me if/where applicable and post and add any info you obtain on Senators I missed, omitted or improperly included as this list is not complete. (I haven't seen a NumbersUSA call list yet.) This list is mostly GOP, some Dems (I believe Sens. Chambliss, Dole, Isakson, Sessions oppose AgJOBS amnesty):

-Alexander
-Allard
-Barrasso
-Baucus
-Bennett
-Bond
-Brown
-Brownback
-Burr
-Byrd
-Cardin
-Cochran
-Coleman
-Collins
-Conrad
-Corker
-Cornyn
-Crapo
-Dorgan
-Ensign
-Enzi
-Graham
-Grassley
-Gregg
-Harkin (said he will "resist" AgJOBS being attached to Farm Bill)
-Hatch
-Hutchison (office advised she is working on “middle groundâ€