Thread: ALERT!! from NumbersUSA

Okay, we need calls to Senator Sessions office to get him to talk about this on the floor, and any other Senator who is on our side.

[It] would provide temporary limited legal immigration status to experienced farmworkers who must continue to work in agriculture for five years after enactment.

Workers, however, could not obtain legal permanent resident status (green cards), the program would be capped at 1.35 million workers nationwide and eligibility would be limited to those who can prove agricultural employment for at least 150 days or 863 hours or who have earned at least $7,000 working in agriculture during the 48 months prior to Dec. 31, 2007.

The plan would also require emergency workers to labor at least 100 days per year in agriculture for each of the next five years, pay a $250 fine plus processing fees and restricts them from receiving social security benefits based on prior illegal employment.

Well, at least there is no green card attach IF THEY CAN ENFORCE THIS BILL. Also, how are these workers going to prove all this? FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS??? There must some way they have to submit a limited number of documents for authenticity.

If it passed a committee vote, then its not attached to the Irak bill until the entire senate votes on that particular amendment.
Bills go through committee first and then to the Senate floor. If the amendment is approved on the floor, then the entire bill must be vetoed by the President or the particular amendment could be taken off in a Conference Committee between the House and the Senate.

It is not an amendment it is part of the Iraq spending bill that passed committee, the only thing left is to contact the whole Senate if they don't vote down the whole spending bill ( chances are between slim and none) but the only thing left is to contact the whole Senate....especially contact people like sessions, vitter ect, our friends!!

let them know are pissed at this underhanded dirty trick...

The only other hope is Bush Veto's the bill!

Originally Posted by Populist

Senator Dianne Feinstein's robotic quest to help growers in California and otehr states obtain cheap labor continues as she will apparently offer the "Emergency Agriculture Relief Act of 2008", as described here:

[It] would provide temporary limited legal immigration status to experienced farmworkers who must continue to work in agriculture for five years after enactment.

Workers, however, could not obtain legal permanent resident status (green cards), the program would be capped at 1.35 million workers nationwide and eligibility would be limited to those who can prove agricultural employment for at least 150 days or 863 hours or who have earned at least $7,000 working in agriculture during the 48 months prior to Dec. 31, 2007.

The plan would also require emergency workers to labor at least 100 days per year in agriculture for each of the next five years, pay a $250 fine plus processing fees and restricts them from receiving social security benefits based on prior illegal employment.

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007595.html

Absolute pure crap mumbo jumbo to legalize the illegal employment practices of criminal employers and legalize the illegal aliens who have been illegally holding jobs here in agriculture.

We need to contact Senator Sessions, Inhofe, and Vitters offices to see if they can enter an amendment to the Iraq spending bill to knock it out. If it has to go to the House then we have to hit them big because today the House did not pass the spending for Iraq on their side.

Here it is. We have more work to do:
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The Hill.com
Senate panel adds immigration measure to Iraq supplemental
By Manu Raju
Posted: 05/15/08 04:06 PM [ET]

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday added to an Iraq spending bill a controversial provision to help pave the way for undocumented agriculture workers to win legal status, a move that may reopen the divisive immigration debate on the Senate floor.

The so-called Ag-Jobs amendment, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would create a process that allows undocumented workers to continue to work on farms. Without the amendment, Feinstein warned that the U.S. would lose $5-9 billion to foreign competition, tens of thousands of farms would shut down and 80,000 workers would be transferred to Mexico. The bill would sunset in five years.

"Agriculture needs a consistent workforce," Feinstein said. "Without it, they can't plant, they can't prune, they can't pick and they can't pack.

"This is an emergency situation," she added.

The amendment was approved by a 17-12 vote with defections from both parties. Critics say the amendment amounts to amnesty for people who entered the country illegally. A broader comprehensive immigration overhaul, with a path for citizenship for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, failed in a divisive Senate vote last year.

"No matter how one characterizes it, this enormous amendment still amounts to amnesty," said Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). "I oppose amnesty. All these immigration issues should be addressed through the regular order."

The committee is moving Thursday to approve three separate measures: one to fund domestic priorities; another to provide $169 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and a third to alter President Bush's war policy.

The Senate plans to take up the bills next week, and is likely to reject the war policy measure, but will likely approve the funding for the wars.

It is unclear whether Democrats have the votes to approve the domestic-spending provision since a number of Republicans want to add their priorities. The measure remains one of the few vehicles likely to get enacted before the election in November. The addition of a slew of amendments could doom its prospects in the Senate.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/sen ... 05-15.html

Originally Posted by Gogo

We need to contact Senator Sessions, Inhofe, and Vitters offices to see if they can enter an amendment to the Iraq spending bill to knock it out. If it has to go to the House then we have to hit them big because today the House did not pass the spending for Iraq on their side.

I was just watching c-span they broke away for a news conference..Boehner said they did not pass it because the tricks the Dems pulled with the bill, he said they wanted to pass a clean spending bill for Iraq....then they broke off and went back to c-span and we did not get to hear the whole thing

But Bush said he would veto the houses bill and said that the Senate bill was better than the house bill....I could scream!

I called Inhofe's office since I'm a campaign supporter. They said they were aware of it but didn't know if they had any plans to fight it yet. She said to call back at the beginning of next week.

Has anyone called Senator Sessions or Vitter's offices.

From FAIR:

Breaking News: Senate to Consider Partial Amnesty for Agricultural Workers

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) obtained passage today of an amendment to the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill to provide partial amnesty for illegal immigrants working in agriculture. The amendment would provide legal status for 1.35 million agricultural workers and lessen current protections for Americans and new foreign workers taking agricultural jobs. The amendment was adopted 17-15 in the Appropriations Committee and will be part of the bill put to the full Senate for a vote. In a parallel move, apparently Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is attempting to use a similar amendment to reopen temporary visas for unskilled workers outside the annual ceiling.

[FAIR Comment: Experience with partial amnesty provisions of this type demonstrate that partial amnesties become permanent amnesties at the end of the ‘temporary’ period. The argument becomes that the U.S. has allowed these people to put down roots and it would be unfair to try to uproot them now.]
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