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
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
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