Posted on 03/28/2006 1:14:56 PM PST by jmaroneps37
I have great faith in the power of our system. We fight amongst ourselves but in the end, the America people "get it right" a lot more than we blow it. Now is the time for us to get it right.
Today we are facing the long simmering question of what to do with the illegal invaders who flood our country. Americans are a slow to boil over, live-and-let-live people. We are a nation of immigrants. We don't hate people because of where they come from and we are always looking to open our doors to those who want to follow our laws and become good Americans. Nevertheless, enough is enough.
All we want is to see a sensible end to this question. We have let the politicians try to handle it as we sat back and waited. The time for waiting is now over. These people obviously need a quick infusion of backbone.
We must be the adults here. We must remind these children, Democrat and Republican alike, about just how they got to where they are. We put them in office and we can take them out of office. Now is the time to send the message loud and clear. "Get this thing solved now!"
Each of the Senators listed below is up for election this year. Contact your Senator and send the message: Enforce the borders, Send criminal illegals back first then as many others as we can, and hand out stiff punishments to employers who make this county a temptation these illegals can't resist. And of course DO IT NOW! Don't tell us these illegals waving Mexican and other flags through our streets have had an effect on you. We don't want to hear that. We are the American voter and you damned well better listen to us!
Akaka, Daniel K.- (D - HI) 141 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6361 E-mail: senator@akaka.senate.gov
Allen, George- (R - VA) 204 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4024 Web Form: allen.senate.gov/index.cfm?c=email
Bingaman, Jeff- (D - NM) 703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5521 E-mail: senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov
Burns, Conrad- (R - MT) 187 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2644 Web Form: burns.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Contact
Byrd, Robert C.- (D - WV) 311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3954 Web Form: byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html
Cantwell, Maria- (D - WA) 717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3441 Web Form: cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.html
Carper, Thomas R.- (D - DE) 513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2441 Web Form: carper.senate.gov/aemail.htm
Chafee, Lincoln- (R - RI) 141A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2921 Web Form: chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm
Clinton, Hillary Rodham- (D - NY) 476 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4451 Web Form: clinton.senate.gov/contact
Conrad, Kent- (D - ND) 530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2043 Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/webform.html
Dayton, Mark- (D - MN) 123 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3244 Web Form: dayton.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm not running
DeWine, Mike- (R - OH) 140 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2315 Web Form: dewine.senate.gov
Ensign, John- (R - NV) 356 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6244 Web Form: ensign.senate.gov/forms/email_form.cfm
Feinstein, Dianne- (D - CA) 331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3841 Web Form: feinstein.senate.gov/email.html
Frist, William H.- (R - TN) 509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3344 Web Form: frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.C... not running but running for president
Hatch, Orrin G.- (R - UT) 104 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5251 Web Form: hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact
Hutchison, Kay Bailey- (R - TX) 284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5922 Web Form: hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm
Jeffords, James M.- (I - VT) 413 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5141 Web Form: jeffords.senate.gov/contact.html not running
Kennedy, Edward M.- (D - MA) 317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4543 Web Form: kennedy.senate.gov/contact.html
Kohl, Herb- (D - WI) 330 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5653 Web Form: kohl.senate.gov/gen_contact.html
Kyl, Jon- (R - AZ) 730 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4521 Web Form: kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Lott, Trent- (R - MS) 487 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6253 Web Form: lott.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email
Lugar, Richard G.- (R - IN) 306 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4814 E-mail: senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov
Menendez, Robert- (D - NJ) 502 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4744 Web Form: menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Nelson, Bill- (D - FL) 716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5274 Web Form: billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Nelson, E. Benjamin- (D - NE) 720 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6551 Web Form: bennelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Santorum, Rick- (R - PA) 511 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6324 Web Form: santorum.senate.gov/contactform.cfm
Sarbanes, Paul S.- (D - MD) 309 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4524 Web Form: sarbanes.senate.gov/pages/email.html not running
Snowe, Olympia J.- (R - ME) 154 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5344 Web Form: snowe.senate.gov/contact.htm
Stabenow, Debbie- (D - MI) 133 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4822 Web Form: stabenow.senate.gov/email.htm
Talent, James M.- (R - MO) 493 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6154 Web Form: talent.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm?pagemode=1
Thomas, Craig- (R - WY) 307 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6441 Web Form: thomas.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
I couldn't agree more. Clearly they think they can just walk over us, and the only power we have is our vote. Neither of my senators is up for election this year, but I'm writing to them anyway.
bttt
The traitors will NOT listen to we the people. They proved that yesterday didn't they? I emailed, faxed and called my "representatives" to pass HR4437 and even stronger legislation, sure dream on.
See them all at the polls in 2006 and 2008. Of course we won't have to worry about 2008 anymore the socialist liberal democrats who were once referred to as illegal aliens, have been allowed to stay in this Country so guess who they will vote for?
Amen!!! If they fail us on this issue, I'm ready to support a future 3rd party candidate who will truly represent the American Electorate.
Down with the status quo and business as usual!!
You a few others will support a third party candidate, this ensuring Majority Leader Reid & Speaker of the House Pelosi.
That'll teach them a lesson!
Just what legislation of Reid and Pelosi's do you support?
Sadly, getting Lugar out of office or even threatening to vote him out, just won't work in Indiana.
Hoosiers will go kicking and screaming to change their alarm clocks this weekend. Change here just doesn't happen.
But I wrote him anyway.
I agree 100 Per Cent. I might add that I think the key is to gain control of our borders (all of them), any immigration bill is just an amnesty plan in disguise.
We already have plenty of laws on the books. Enforce them.
Bump for reference.
Welcome to Free Republic.
The Dims spend all of their time trying to find ways to make Bush look bad while, the Pubes run around trying to not fall into the same pit the Pres. is in. 6 Yrs. of wasting time instead of dealing with the important issues.
Fascinating! Tell me more.
If Jon Kyl let's this go through, not only will I not vote Republican, but I'll vote Democrat. Remind us what the Republican Congress has accomplished anyway?
Your problem is that you support the Party no matter what they do even when they fail to represent their members and the supposed party platform. I'm tired of people like you using this scare tactic to try to get members to fall in line telling everyone that if we don't vote for any Republican we'll end up with a Pelosi or Reid.
The Party is beholden to its core members, i.e., those that elected them. Perhaps the Republican Party needs to lose a couple of elections in order to start to voting its membership. I thought this was a representative government.
Exactly. hillary is just securing her voter base, since getting the vote for felons and the mentally disabled didn't happen.
They got where they are by getting the money ... and "those what brought them" are the large, cheap-labor loving corporations..
You mean that people vote for a candidate based on fundraising totals?
Please enlighten us on this conspiracy theory.
ping to use ...thanks
Just what is better about the Rinos in office now? We have to do something or they will continue to do business as usual and we are the fall guys. If we vote third party they get the drift and start acting like conservatives, maybe. At anyrate we can't be any worse off then we are now, the few real conservatives in the republican party can't hold the line against the Rinos.
I agree. I think the new Justices are great, but can they force the Executive branch to enforce the Immigration Laws on the books?
I can talk big, because the Republicans (Kyl, Franks) that I would vote for our going to win no problem in November, with or without me.
So I emailed them, as well as McCain, and threatened to vote Democrat anyway, if anything except border security is passed.
No, but the majority of voters are not politically engaged or informed and tend to go by what they see on TV. And that means cash to get the message out, to higher people and to maintain "visibility" before the election. A lot of cash. A typical Senate campaign is several million. This isn't being raised from the $10 and $20 from the normal person. It's the people who can marshall many donors to pony up the $2100 or whatever the max is.
The politicians spend a huge chunks of their time fundraising all through their terms (with the 2-year cycle of Congress, it's almost continuous). And the big donor base tends to favor the corporist interests over those of the normal working person.
So if you need at least $5M to run your campaign, and here are groups of persons who can raise several thousands, and over there are people who will give you - much less, let's say, who will the average politician be inclined to please?
Thank you for your well thought-out analysis. I don't have TV, and the people I associate with are well-informed conservatives, pure partyline Republican/Democrat voters or don't vote at all. It leaves me feeling the pols are wasting a lot of money on TV time.
Besides, I've been seeing a few stories that people don't even watch commercials anymore and the price of marketing is going down, so that could be good too.
Maybe they are better off spending money to influence TV Commentators, newspaper editors, authors, bloggers and columnists instead?
To me, the illegals are marching and waving Mexican flags to show Americans that there are enough of them here to wrest control of our democracy away from us. And they may be right. If not today, in the not too distant future. Everyone should be concerned.
You're damn right it will.
That will automatically invalidate the election and call for revolution!!!
People have asked me why I am so angry about this,because my family members fought to secure this Nation , and to see a bunch of people take advantage of the good people of America, spit in their faces and make demands when there are some good immigrants who respect us, our Country who are getting screwed by those in Washington, I feel betrayed.
It's a sad day to see the in your face illegals who are making demands when we taxpayers have to support them and the very kids who are out there throwing rocks at an American, throw it at one of us you throw it at all of us.
Pass HR4437 place an armed national guard on the border with shoot to kill orders.
I've been making phone calls and sending faxes all day. Well, not all day. I had a dentist app't this morning. :)
Really something, isn't it, when the illegal aliens in this country get listened to by the American Citizen's Congresscritters, but they will not listen to US!!!! Absolutely incredible, but I will WILL NOT FORGET COME NOV 7, 2006!
You are under the misperception they'll listen.
Dear Senator Nelson,
As my Senator you are charged with upholding the Constitution of the United States; not part of it, all of it. Our current immigration laws specifically prohibit illegal entry across our borders by anyone who has not gone through proper legal channels.
Amnesty is not the answer, nor is it justification for "allowing illegals to fill jobs that Americans supposedly refuse to fill." I have no problem with people wanting to make and earn an living, but it must be done legally.
How about urging Mexico gets it's own house in order? Why must we be expected to look the other way, while more Mexican citizens pour across our borders unchecked?
Sir, I have no problem with immigrants wanting to become Americans and seek a better way of life, but I don't approve of changing our immigration laws to suit those who have broken and continue to break our laws. Granting one set of law breakers amnesty, while insisting that other lawbreakers be prosecuted is wrong. All lawbreakers should be treated equally. Otherwise, you owe every criminal now sitting in prison an apology.
Needless to say, I am against the Kennedy Senate Immigration Bill or any other Bill that may come before Congress that seeks to allow illegals a pass.
Changing the rules to satisfy those who habitually break our laws is a slap in the face to those immigrants who honorably entered this country the right way.
Thank you for your time.
They're used to marching in the streets to overthrow governments and install dictators. Look at the history of Mexico and Latin America. Poverty, corruption, murdering gangs killing their opposition, Marxists infiltrating and controlling villages. This is what we're importing--people who have little or no respect for the rule of law or they wouldn't be deliberately breaking the law to get here.
The media keeps saying the tough House bill will make them "felons." They already are felons--they're trespassing and violating another country's sovereign right to have borders.
We are not the silent magority, we are the ignored marority.I don't think, the American people, are buying the crap. Please God, let me be happy, after the 2006 elections, and I WILL BE HAPPY the rest of my life.....
> That'll teach them a lesson!
It may in fact teach them a lesson.
It'll teach them that if you abandon your base, your base may very well abandon you.
> Just what legislation of Reid and Pelosi's do you support?
None. Just what sort of stick would you use to beat these RINO turncoats into sanity?
Amen....I have e-mailed and called these damned fools
John Conyers as head of Judiciary because you get your panties in a twist? Boy that is sum gud thinkin'.
And Charlie Rangel as head of Ways and Means. That is a worthy goal to punish the GOP for not falling all over itself kowtowing to morons.
> That is a worthy goal to punish the GOP for not falling all over itself kowtowing to morons.
Oh, nice insults. You think we're morons because we insist that Republicans act like Republicans? This lot has spent us into a deep abyss where the promissory notes are held by islamofascists and ChiComs, and has compromised our security and sovereignty by gleefully letting millions stream in through our porous borders to satisfy the slave labor needs of their biggest donors.
What do you suggest we do? Got any constructive suggestions? Or does this state of affairs suit you fine?
No I think attacks on the GOP will damage National Security AND EVERY SINGLE thing you believe in. Those using this excuse to do so are from the "Are We There Yet?" Wing of the Party. Perpetually Pissed Off and ready to jump from the frying pan into the fire in the deluded belief that will make them cooler. Many don't even vote GOP and have no plans to.
Those who believe we are endangered by having DEBT purchased by other nations don't have much of a grasp of realities economic or otherwise. Sorry if I cannot pretend to be dealing with unemotional people who carefully think about what they believe.
My "solution" is only a stop gap like all others. I would like to see Cities which refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities lose ALL federal funding.
I would like to see Citizen border control under STRICT control by state or federal officers.
I would like to see Churches which are accessories in the protecting illegals from the authorities be either fined heavily or removed from taxempt status.
Until a better handle is gotten on this I would like to see federal reimbursement of the extraordinary expenses of local communities for dealing with the illegals.
My community has huge numbers of illegals but here they are not that big a problem. Here there are probably as many from Poland, Ireland, Russia and Eastern Europe as from Mexico.
But the reality is that the GOP must be supported because only it will continue the fight against the terrorists (our most important National issue) and reduction of taxes (probably second) and the appointment of conservative judges (third). The Illegal issue has been vastly overblown in importance and is useful only as a means to attack the GOP.
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