Thread: FIGHT AGAINST AG JOBS AMNESTY!!!!!!!TIME TO TAKE ACTION !!!!

Thanks working4change, I knew you would show up and jump on in here!! your alright!!

FAIR update, 10/29. Note this: "Capitol Hill sources indicate that the Farm Bill and the AgJOBS amendment will surface on the Senate floor the week of November 5th." Maybe, just maybe, if we work hard enough now, they'll get the message that we do NOT want and will NOT accept the HUGE AgJOBS amnesty. Read below to see what a terrible amnesty this would be. PLEASE CALL NOW:
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Agjobs Threat Looms Over Farm Bill

Last week, amnesty advocates announced that they planned to bring another piece of the failed Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill to the floor soon. This time the goal is AgJOBS—the name given to the agricultural guest worker amnesty bill—authored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Larry Craig (R-ID). Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told Congressional Quarterly that the legislation (S.340) will be added to the Farm Bill (H.R.2419) currently making its way through Congress.

Strikingly similar to the 1986 amnesty bill, AgJOBS grants amnesty to at least 1.5 million illegal alien agricultural workers plus their families through the issuance of "blue cards." In general, blue card applicants must only establish 150 days of agricultural work during calendar years 2005 and 2006 and pay a fine of $100. Upon obtaining a blue card, an illegal alien will:

-be granted legal status;
-be granted work authorization;
-obtain legal status for his/her family;
-be treated as a legal permanent resident (with benefits after five years);
-be allowed to travel freely to and from the U.S.;
-be put on a path to citizenship; and
-receive amnesty for social security crimes, including buying and selling social security numbers.

In addition to providing mass amnesty, AgJOBS also relaxes the requirements of the existing (and uncapped) agricultural guest worker program, called the H-2A program, making it easier for agribusiness to import foreign labor. To see FAIR's legislative analysis of AgJOBS, click here.

The Senate is no stranger to AgJOBS. Versions of the legislation have been introduced for several years in a row. AgJOBS was part S.2611, the infamous amnesty bill that passed the Senate in 2006, but never made it to conference committee with the House of Representatives. Earlier this spring, AgJOBS was also included in the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill (S.1639), which was subsequently voted down by the Senate. But despite these repeated rejections of AgJOBS by the Senate and the American people, amnesty advocates are still determined to push this legislation forward. They are spurred on by powerful agri-business lobbies that continue to push for an ever increasing supply of cheap foreign labor.

Capitol Hill sources indicate that the Farm Bill and the AgJOBS amendment will surface on the Senate floor the week of November 5th. Some suggest that the failure of the DREAM Act last week has dampened enthusiasm for pursuing the AgJOBS legislation. Shortly after its downfall, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Congressional Quarterly that the DREAM Act vote could kill prospects for any other immigration measure this year, including AgJOBS. Senator Dianne Feinstein, however, was more hopeful. "I think there is no way of telling," she said. "I'm going to try to do AgJOBS at some point, at some time. We are going to destroy agriculture if we don't." (Congressional Quarterly, Oct. 24, 2007).

KILL THE BILL!!! NO AGJOBS!!!

This can be used as a fax it is exactly 1 page!!



Senators,
Don’t betray Americans again by voting for this AG’s job bill you are insisting on attaching to the farm bill extension (HR 2419) We the people have spoken, We do not want any amnesty, or more so called guest workers until our immigration problems are fixed, and under control! We want our laws enforced and our borders closed! And how about some over sight on these so called sanctuary cities aiding, abetting and harboring illegal aliens, and Chertoff aiding them in giving drivers licenses to illegals! Is the man stupid, he is suppose to be enforcing the laws! Unbelievable, The chaos and anarchy in this country is getting worse everyday, 2008 The traitors will go! Don’t betray Americans again by voting for this AG’s job bill you are insisting on.
The entire AGâ€

Numbers is also now reporting that AgJOBS will resurface next week, the week of 11/5. This gives us time this week to take action. Will there be an ALIPAC alert issued?

From Numbers:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced ... that The Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007 (H.R. 2419) is likely to come up for debate on the Senate floor during the week of November 5.

Great, SOSAD! Will do.

The following senators voted against making English the official language of America : How strange its basically the same bunch of traitors that wants amnesty anyway they can get it!!!

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE) Wants to be President?
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY) Wants to be President?
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT) Wants to be President?
Domenici (R-NM) Coward, protecting his Senate seat...
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI) Not unusual for him
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA) Wanted to be President
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT) Disappointment here.....
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL) Wants to be President?
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV) Senate Majority Leader
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-M)


'Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged.'

~ President Abraham Lincoln ' Amen '

Another point to stress to Senate staffers in calls against the AgJOBS amnesty: a Rasmussen poll released yesterday found that Americans overwhelmingly rejected Sen. Durbin's Dream Act amnesty, and instead when they think of immigration reform, they want SECURE BORDERS:
(and thus NO AgJOBS amnesty)!! Excerpt:

"... [i]surveys have repeatedly shown that when voters think of immigration reform, they think first and foremost about gaining control of the nation’s borders. Seventy-two percent (72%) say it is Very Important for “the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration.â€

[quote="Populist"]Another point to stress to Senate staffers in calls against the AgJOBS amnesty: a Rasmussen poll released yesterday found that Americans overwhelmingly rejected Sen. Durbin's Dream Act amnesty, and instead when they think of immigration reform, they want SECURE BORDERS:
(and thus NO AgJOBS amnesty)!! Excerpt:

"... [i]surveys have repeatedly shown that when voters think of immigration reform, they think first and foremost about gaining control of the nation’s borders. Seventy-two percent (72%) say it is Very Important for “the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration.â€