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.
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