Update 03/13/06 Hi all, A new activist work week begins. Maybe it would be useful and motivational to post our contact with ANY Senators here, or post THEIR positions as you know them from any recent news articles.

Thanks, Sylvia
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Hi All, I'm sure we have someone from every state here on Alipac. could I ask you please to post here whatever responses you are getting from your senators? I have been stonewalled more than usual this week, even by the aids of Senators with good to excellent voting records on Border Control, Interior Enforcement and etc.

Could you try to find out WHAT BILL they are intending to support? Or even ask generally what their stances are in illegal immigration? I'm sure you know the position of your Senators from experience.

This week, I was asked immediately if I was from the state of the Senator I was calling, whereas last week I was not asked as much.

HERE IS THIS WEEKS PHONE REPORT:


ACCORDING TO WHAT AIDS FOR THE SENATORS TOLD ME THIS WEEK;
Definitely Will Not Support a Guestworker program

Jeff Sessions-AL - Aid says Senator will not accept any guestworker program for illegals already here in the country.

Saxby Chamblis-GA - Aid says Senator is against guestworker programs. (this is what the aid said, in spite of the fact that the Senator is the sponsor of agricultural bill S2087)

John Ensign-NV - Aid says the Senator thinks illegals should NOT be rewarded.

Orin Hatch-UT - On one call, the aid seemed anxious to say Senator is AGAINST amnesty and will not support a guestworker program. On another call, a different aid told me the Senator might support a guestworker program if it does not abuse the system.


DEFINITE MAYBES


Charles Grassley-IA - Aid was anxious to say the Senator was NOT for amnesty but willnot comment on the guestworker program.

I'm getting so many "don't know" answers that it is maddening. Some would say they were connecting me to the aid who handles that issue, but invaraibly I was sent to a message machine.

I have felt STONEWALLED this week on my calling, more so than last week.