Posted on 04/27/2006 1:37:09 PM PDT by Mike10542
The Hagel-Martinez Guest Worker Amnesty Plan: Round 2! The Senate returned from recess this week with plans to take up immigration reform again during the month of May. Both Senator Frist and Senator Reid have publicly announced they plan to have an immigration reform package voted out of the chamber by Memorial Day recess and FAIR has learned that the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” is still the vehicle of choice. During the floor debate three weeks ago, Senators tried to market the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” as some moderate version of the massive McCain-Kennedy guest worker amnesty. The American public was not fooled then, and they will not be fooled now.
What the public doesn’t see is the back door negotiating taking place on Capitol Hill right now. Some Senators are trying to pressure House Members to back down from their enforcement-only (HR 4437) legislation so Senators have wiggle room to pass a massive guest worker amnesty program like the one in the Hagel-Martinez legislation. Thus, while the battleground appears to be in the Senate, do not forget the only way an amnesty will pass is with the consent of the House. You must make sure to tell both your Senators and Representatives you oppose all forms of amnesty and want enforcement-only immigration reform.
With all of these factors in play, May has now become Round 2 in the battle to win enforcement and defeat amnesty. FAIR’s Government Relations staff will keep you updated to let you know what YOUR elected officials are doing.
Tell the House Majority Leader Americans Want Enforcement-Only Immigration Reform!
While Members of Congress were in their districts for the Easter/Passover recess, we asked you to make calls and visits to your elected officials to let them know enforcement is the only reasonable answer to our immigration crisis. Newspapers across the country are reporting the overwhelming response Members received from you. Most notably, Majority Leader Boehner was quoted as saying, "Until you strengthen the borders and begin to enforce the laws, we're not making any progress. Americans are very upset about the porous nature of our borders."
Let’s make sure the Majority Leader never forgets he uttered these words and the American public is who they should take direction from, not from the open-borders lobby. Our national security and sovereignty is more important than businesses profiting from slave labor. The Majority Leader will be in his district office for Friday, April 28th and Monday, May 1st. Please reach out to his office at the number below.
Majority Leader Boehner (R-OH) (513) 779-5400
FAIR Learns from Hill Sources: Hastert will Buck the American Public and Appoint Members Favoring Guest Worker Amnesty to House Conference Committee Throughout the Senate debate on immigration reform, members of the Senate have tried to develop strategy around the Conference Committee. The Conference Committee will be made up of Members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate appointed by the Leadership of each chamber. The Conference Committee is responsible for hammering out the differences of the enforcement/border security bill the House passed in December (H.R. 4437) and whatever legislation the Senate can pass.
As we explained above, the Senate will bring up the Hagel-Martinez guest worker amnesty legislation as they try to address immigration reform once again. If the Senate manages to pass a guest worker amnesty, which we will fight every step of the way, the guest worker amnesty will be “conferenced” with the House’s H.R. 4437. Speaker Dennis Hastert will help decide which Members of the House he will send to work with the Senate on a final immigration reform package. Speaker Hastert is indicating that he favors appointing members who support amnesty to the Conference Committee. Both President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are pressuring Hastert to secure a guest worker amnesty for which the President can claim credit by stacking the Conference Committee with amnesty backers!
Why President Bush, Majority Leader Frist and Speaker Hastert are more than willing to give this country away is anyone’s guess, but we need you to help. We urge you to contact all four of Speaker Hastert’s offices. He needs to know that he should be siding with the American public and not with the corporate special interests Bush and Frist want to please.
Please call all four telephone numbers to tell Speaker Hastert that backers of H.R. 4437 should be in any Conference Committee! Strong enforcement-only Members of the House to represent the American people!
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) Office Phone Numbers Speaker’s Office (202) 225-0600 Hastert’s Personal DC Office (202) 225-2976 Batavia District Office (630) 406-1114 Dixon District Office (815) 288-0680
Don’t Forget to Thank Our Friends! The exact timing of when the Hagel-Martinez bill will return to the floor is uncertain. However, before it does, we would like you to take a minute of your time to make some “thank you” calls to Senators who have stood up for America and the nation’s best interest rather than special interests. These are some of our friends we would like you to thank.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (202) 224-4124 Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) (202) 224-5754 Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521 Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) (202) 224-3643 Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) (202) 224-6551 Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) (202) 224-3954
If we have to make calls its lost. Its time to choose sides anyway.
Re: Boehner...Never trust a man that values a suntan. Grandpa told me.
That's it- amnesty is a done deal if this report is true. You folks can make your calls and e-mails if you like, but Hastert's House was the last obstacle.
I will be voting for the Constitution Party from now on.
This isn't really a country any more- it's more of a "zone." A free trade and migration zone. And our politiicans and (judging by recent polls) a lot of Americans are apparently ok with that.
So the great RINO illegal amnesty sellout skedaddle begins.
Ditto, one and all, the pols know by now how we feel on the issue. It is a direct slap in the face, I now look forward to paying back the RINO party in full measure come November.
No our last hope is with the states, it may be time to consider articles of secession......
Speaker Hastert is indicating that he favors appointing members who support amnesty to the Conference Committee. Both President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are pressuring Hastert to secure a guest worker amnesty for which the President can claim credit by stacking the Conference Committee with amnesty backers!
* * * Please call all four telephone numbers to tell Speaker Hastert that backers of H.R. 4437 should be in any Conference Committee! Strong enforcement-only Members of the House to represent the American people!
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) Office Phone Numbers Speaker’s Office (202) 225-0600 Hastert’s Personal DC Office (202) 225-2976 Batavia District Office (630) 406-1114 Dixon District Office (815) 288-0680
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Argh! It's crazy! Some just said...the lunatics are running the asylum. Especially after 9/11, how does allowing whomever is here, with whatever criminal background (and medical/mental health problems) they have, benefit America and its legal citizens? The risks for sleeper cells coming in (never mind those that may still remain) have been eliminated.....how?
It's fine if anyone wants to call and e-mail, but this isn't 1986 when the issue kind of snuck up on everyone. Hastert and the rest of the party know only too well by this point how incredibly strongly we feel about this issue. They just don't care.
I am truly looking forward to voting for the Constitution Party for years to come. If enough people join me just maybe the Republican elites will look at the surprising number of Constitution Party voters and regret having sold us out.
The passage of amnesty will be liberating in a way because I really won't care very much who gets elected or what gets passed. Republicans act like Democrats now anyway- the passage of amnesty will just make it official.
Dennis Hastert is a fat-ass. How can I respect a man who doesn't even respect himself.
I've already received my pamphlets from the Constitution Party. And you're right, "Republicans act like Democrats now anyway- the passage of amnesty will just make it official." There difference is only a matter of a few degrees under an already simmering pot.
Well if you like the Constitution Party you agree with the following which is essentially an isolationist policy with treatment of terrorists like criminals. This is enough of a reason by itself to reject the Consitiution Party. If we're not willing to go to war against international terrorists and anyone who harbors them then nothing else much matters.
"The USA PATRIOT Act permits arrests without warrants and secret detention without counsel, wiretaps without court supervision, searches and seizures without notification to the individual whose property is invaded, and a host of other violations of the legal safeguards our nation has historically developed according to principles descending from the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Since we will no longer have a free nation while the federal government (or the governments of the several states, as the federal government may authorize) can violate our historic rights under such laws, we call for the rejection of all such laws and the ceasing of any such further proposals including the aforementioned Domestic Securities Enhancement Act.
The Constitution Party is unalterably opposed to the criminal acts of terrorists, and their organizations, as well as the governments which condone them. Individuals responsible for acts of terrorism must be punished for their crimes, including the infliction of capital punishment where appropriate. In responding to terrorism, however, the United States must avoid acts of retaliation abroad which destroy innocent human lives, creating enmity toward the United States and its people; and
In accord with the views of our Founding Fathers, we must disengage this nation from the international entanglements which generate foreign hatred of the United States, and are used as the excuse for terrorist attacks on America and its people. The 'war on terrorism" is not a proper excuse for perpetual U.S. occupation of foreign lands, military assaults on countries which have not injured us, or perpetual commitment of taxpayer dollars to finance foreign governments."
oops...There difference = The difference.
Nic...I posted this am on the daily how Ill. has a secret way of impeaching Bush and I don't not understand my party, not for one minute, all the values that I thought they represented are nothing like I was brought up
~Shaking head
It's time to drop the ball in Iraq...Get the soldiers home to protect our country...
If the gov't will scam us on our borders, they'll scam us on Iraq as well...
Not me either; my grandma's probably rolling in her grave. She lectured me about the parties when I was in high school, and I committed myself to the cause of conservatism and registered as a Republican. This party is nothing like the party my grandma told me about, nor even close to what it was like when I registered.
Well of course he does. Hastert is a crapweasel RINO compromiser in the finest tradition of a long line of RINO compromisers like Trent Lott, Bob Dole and the venerable silk sock country club RINO himself, Bob Michael. I wouldn't trust Hastert as far as I can throw Jerold Nadler. When Hastert hired that Red China lobbyist, Nancy Dorn, for a senior staff position, that did it for me.
Don't forget the tollfree number
1-888-355-3588
Well at least we had a good 230 years.
To coin a phrase: "Compassionate conservatism in action"....RINO's leading the way.
Bump!
Message just sent to Hastert.
We'll still scrape along for a while longer, so 2006 isn't a end point, just as the country was far from up and running in 1776.
But 2006 will mark the formal announcement to the world that a new political reality exists on the North American continent, and that this reality no longer includes a completely sovereign country called the United States that is willing to defend its borders, culture, or language.
I called all numbers. (But the toll free didn't work on my cell). Anyways, I left a message with live people for the (202) area codes; a phone message with Batavia and......
THIS MAIL BOX IS FULL: Dixon District Office (815) 288-0680
so no message could be left, lol!
Thanks for the ping. It's bad news on top of bad news these days.
Tancredo and the rest of them fought the good fight and still are but if any kind amnesty passes the game is over and I hate to say it but we all pretty much lost. We will be so overwhelmed with new illegals, guest workers, family chain members and all their offspring that a 400 to 500 million population and rising in a generation will not be out of the question. And most of the new people coming in will be voting for socialist governments, it's a fact the GOP leadership cannot seem to grasp. Or maybe do...
Dont you think thats a little extreme...secession?
To paraphrase Reagan, the Republican party is leaving me, not the other way around. If they pass this monstrosity there's no way I could ever in good conscience vote for them anymore.
Not only that they will be the biggest union this country has ever seen. If they can shut down the country for one day don't you think they will use their power to get better wages when they get their way with amnesty?
If Congress gives in to these thugs they'll see they can do that to get anything they want, including the changing of all our laws to suit them. There's a whole lot at stake here that appears to be completely over the heads of the GOP leadership.
Hastert?
Constitution party doesnt support thw WOT or war in Iraq. Theyll never get my vote. On defense theyre worse than DEMS...Id vote for Lieberman any day over the loons from the CP
Well, I don't believe it is over their heads. They are scrambling to get their place at the power table. There will be no borders and they all know it. Go here and read this article. Print it and take it to bed with you--it is long but very detailed.
http://www.augustreview.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=4&pid=12
yw. Sadly, I have to agree.
They want the globalization I know that but what's over their heads are the consequences of such a policy. Unless they plan to live on a remote island somewhere they'll be stuck in the same type of third world socialist country they're creating as the rest of us. If they're lucky they and their kids can have their gated communities and 200 acre spreads but that'll only get them so far.
ping
IMO, there is only one way this issue will get turned around and that's if there is trouble at any or all of these marches, if or when any number of people decide to gather their courage and counter protest, letting the voices of the majority of americans against amnesty be heard. Previous protests took us by surprise. This time, the more their plans are 'announced' in the media, the angrier people are getting about it.
Should national guard have to be called out across this country, I think our leadership would go from being the cowards they are, to facing, in immediate and realtime, the reality of what their ignorance has brought upon this country and the threat that really lies behind those American flags. They will see these people for who they are, invaders DEMANDING from us what is NOT theirs for the taking. Individual cities and their law enforcement have permitted the gathering of numbers far beyond their control, creating a security nightmare. As far as I'm concerned, by doing so, they are unprepared for a worse case scenario that could happen all across this country, endangering the lives of everyone and the govt. has no one to blame but themselves.
D.C. needs a wake up call and as 'distressing' as it would be, they just might get it on, coincidentally, Mayday.
I gave you the wrong article. I am looking for the one on CFR that tells how Bush, Fox and Canada made an agreement to more or less eliminate the borders as we know them. Damn, I can't find it. I will keep looking.
Anyway, how can the politicians be so stupid. If you and I believe we know the ramifications of globalization (and I don't know about you but I am NO rocket scientist) how can they not know. It is very discouraging. I do believe we will be a third world country waiting for China to take over.
"Constitution party doesnt support thw WOT or war in Iraq."
So you support spending thousands of lives and 300 billion dollars to create a Shiite-led Iraq that is an Iranian puppet state? Because that's what it's going to be the second we finally leave there. I think our strategic situation was better before the war- at least Saddam was a counterweight to Iran.
I have no problem with the Constitution Party's position on Iraq. I support the Afghanistan war- if they don't then that's something we disagree on but no party is going to support everything I do.
Canada seems to be going in the opposite direction lately. If there's going to be a merger expect it to be between the US and Mexico. We have very little historical ties to that country other than being a neighbor but there's just too much cheap labor down there for the big corporations to ignore. And they have lots of oil.
thank you for so succently articulating why I will never vote CP...BTW the CP doesnt support the war in afghanistan either.
This is not the exact article because the one I saw gives dates specific of an agreement but this one is similar. I am sure you probably have seen it. Couple this with the Trilateral Commission and I fear we are doomed.
"March 14, 2005 - Three former high-ranking government officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are calling for a North American economic and security community by 2010 to address shared security threats, challenges to competitiveness, and interest in broad-based development across the three countries." Quote from below link.
http://cfr.org/publication/7914/trinational_call_for_a_north_american_economic_and_security_community_by_2010.html
If you read this and then the other link it is a pretty sure thing as far as I am concerned.
Yes I've read that, thanks for the link. Schlafly has also written about it. We now have William Weld, who had his hand in that running for governor of NY. He needs a one-way ticket back to wherever he came from.
I'm calling them all tomorrow morning.
Thanks.
Yep.
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