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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
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.
yw. Good luck!
I'm sick of the defeatism in this thread. CALL YOUR STATE REPS AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU WANT AND DEMAND!
Also call these two.
Majority Leader Boehner (R-OH) (513) 779-5400
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
NOW MOVE.
I can almost understand how some might feel depressed. But I lost 2 family members in various wars, defending the honor and freedom of America, and I go down only by my cold dead hands.
Semper Fi
Hey, it works with voting, right?
What War on Terror? The one where Americans are strip searched and their items pawed through at the airports while thousands of miles of border remain wide open? The one where the government and its friends at Fox News tries to keep us in fear of "terrorists" thousands of miles away to distract us from all the ones walking in via Canada and Mexico?
But of course! If the illegal aliens are naturalized, won't they demand health care, retirement bennies, paid vacation, family leave and sick days? In fact they won't have to demand it the law would require it wouldn't it? The employers will let them go and hire all new illegal foreign nationals who will be coming here in a ratio of 3-1, like last time amnesty was granted, because of what they see has just happened. Again.
If all you do is vote, it doesn't really matter who you vote for. If you are serious about the Constitution party, you need to get busy, reforming the ballot access laws in about 40 states. Until all states have equal ballot access, for all partys, the Constitution party will remain irrelevant.
The fight is not over yet! Tancredo, Hayworth and the rest of the 90 + members of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus (CIRC) still have a very powerful ace up their sleeve, if they are willing to use it.
What they have to do is first go up to Hastert and warn him that if he packs the House side of the Conference Committee with those who favor amnesty, then they will do the following:
1. Immediately announce that they are publicly withdrawing their voting support for Speaker Hastert, probably by temporarily leaving the Republican Caucus. That would mean that Speaker Hastert would no longer have the majority of votes in the House to remain speaker. Remember, for voting on the Speaker of the House, the whole house votes for the Speaker, not just the majority party. Remember the bru ha ha a few years back when a Democrat crossed party lines to vote for Hastert as Speaker.
2. This would then force Hastert out as Speaker immediately, since he no longer has the majority of the House backing him as Speaker.
3. There would then be two possibilities of this:
a. This would mean that if the GOP wants the next Speaker to be from the GOP for the rest of this Congress, then they had better pick someone who the CIRC approves of. The CIRC can really show some leverage here, either they will cast their votes for someone who agrees with them on immigration or if they do not support whom the rest of the GOP puts up as Hasterts replacement, they then can:
b. The CIRC membership does not cast a vote for Speaker, sits out the election and Pelosi picks up the Speakership by default (YIKES). I doubt the rats would vote to retain Hastert or any other Republican as speaker.
The CIRC potentially holds an awful lot of leverage and power here, if they are willing to exercise it. I suggest we all contact the members of the CIRC and remind them of this. Give them the encouragement they need to pull this off. Below is the link to the CIRC membership where you can get contact info for their members:
http://tancredo.house.gov/irc/members.html
I know this is a stretch, but it can happen and should happen (option a. above, hopefully), if this story is true and Hastert intends on selling the American People out. If this story is true, then Hastert deserves to be fired IMMEDIATELY by his House collegues. Contact the CIRC members immediately and remind them of this.
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