Thread: Numbers USA AG'S bill... ALERT!!!!

AgJOBS Amnesty: Fax your Senator who is supporting the amnesty.

Since your victory over the Comprehensive Amnesty in the Senate in June, the pro-amnesty forces have been planning to mount their new assault. The fight has begun with Congress' return to Washington, D.C.

The pro-amnesty forces' plan: They will forego attempting an amnesty for the minimum of 12 million total illegal aliens. Instead, they will seek an amnesty for 1.5 million illegal farmworkers (which will also result in a few more millions of their close relatives being allowed to be amnestied or invited right away).

The pro-amnesty forces' vehicle: An attempt will be made to add the text of S. 237, the AgJOBS amnesty introduced by Sen.Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), to the farm bill (H.R. 2419), which passed the House on July 27 without amnesty provisions.

DETAILS:

By and large, this is the same AgJOBS amnesty that was introduced last year. The AgJOBS agricultural guestworker-amnesty bill would reward thousands of illegal aliens with amnesty. Of the 1.2 million illegal aliens currently working in agriculture, an estimated 860,000, plus their spouses and children could qualify for this amnesty, so the total could reach three million or more. This bill would also provide amnesty for employers who broke the law by hiring illegal aliens.

Pro-amnesty advocacy groups are telling their members that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Feinstein have promised them that the AgJOBS amnesty will be attached to the farm bill this fall and be passed into law.

Nothing less than the level of your effort in May and June will prevent the Ag Amnesty from going through this fall!

Please send this fax to your Senator who has co-sponsored the AgJOBS amnesty (S. 237). Let them know that you know they are supporting an unnecessary amnesty for illegal aliens and their employers.

Why this amnesty is unnecessary:

POINT #1: Crops aren't "rotting on the vine." Every year pro-amnesty forces use this same scare tactic and it is never true.

POINT #2: The federal government offers the H-2A visa which allows farmers to import unlimited numbers of foreign ag workers for specific short-term work. If some growers lack workers, it is only because they failed to use the legal foreign guestworker program that is available to them.

POINT #3: Growers who refuse to use the H-2A program mainly do so because they have to pay an almost decent wage under the program, while illegal aliens are cheaper.

POINT #4: If growers find the H-2A program too cumbersome, they should direct their lobbyists to support H-2A reforms instead of amnesty.

MAIN POINT: Americans will do this work - at a decent wage. The Department of Labor finds that the majority of farm workers (about 55%) in the U.S. are native-born Americans!

You can find this fax by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=8724

DUH, Just found Zeezil has posted this already. Duplicate. Sorry!!!!