Posted on 05/20/2008 5:49:58 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The good news: Republican senators went on record against the Feinstein/Craig illegal alien farmworker amendment today in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The bad news: There were only 10 of them willing to put their names on the letter:
[Image of letter included on site.]
Sen. Inhofe wants you to sign the No Amnesty letter. You can do so here. The text:
Dear Majority Leader Reid:
We write to express disappointment that the Senate Appropriations Committee chose to include in the War Supplemental more than 100 pages of immigration language that would grant legal status to more than one million illegal alien agricultural workers and their families. We urge you to remove these controversial provisions from the bill so we can enact essential funding for our troops without delay. If these provisions remain in the bill, you can expect a vigorous debate on immigration policy.
As noted here previously, Sen. David Vitter will offer an amendment to strip the Feinstein/Craig provision from the Iraq war supplemental bill.
From Vitter’s office:
U.S. Sen. David Vitter today joined fellow immigration reform-minded colleagues in a letter to U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid expressing disappointment in the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s inclusion of the Feinstein AGJobs language to the Iraq War emergency funding bill and urging for the controversial provision to be removed. Vitter joined U.S Sens. Jeff Sessions, Charles Grassley, Tom Coburn, Johnny Isakson, Saxby Chambliss, James Inhofe, John Barrasso, Elizabeth Dole and Jim Bunning on the letter.
“The Democratic leadership is building a reputation for sneaking unpopular provisions that would never see the light of day as stand-alone bills into larger necessary pieces of legislation, like the Iraq War supplemental funding bill,” said Vitter. “When will the amnesty proponents learn that the American people want border security and enforcement as their immigration reform policy, not sweeping amnesty for millions of illegal aliens? I join my colleagues in urging the Democratic leader to remove the Feinstein AG Jobs provision.”
Vitter also announced that he will introduce an amendment today to strike that Feinstein AGJobs language from the Iraq War emergency funding bill.
“My clear and concise amendment will simply state that the immigration amnesty language should be removed. We need to fight this bad policy and raise the awareness of the American people,” added Vitter.
Vitter is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Border Security and Enforcement First Caucus.
Make your voice heard.
and you think Obama will stop amnesty and finish building the fence.
In the world of reality, the choice is Obama or McCain
You can vote third party which is another vote for Marxist Obama and his frickin wife.
Someone correct me on this, if I am wrong.
The letter is fine, but it’s just symbolism. Can’t one member of the Senate hold up a bill by himself? I don’t recall what it is called, but there is some sort of objection a single Senator can make on the floor that will gum up the works.
So, quit with the whiney protest letters and start throwing sand in the parliamentary gears.
I have a lot of old, Democrat only friends. (I’d as soon argue politics with them as I would my dog.) If Obama gets the nod...they say they will not vote at all.
“Amnesty alert: 10 GOP Senators protest Feinstein/Craig illegal alien farmworker amendment”
Only ten? WTH is wrong with the rest of ‘em?
Why doesn’t Juan step up for once and be an American instead of a Mexican stooge by voting down this bill before Obambi kicks his tired old liberal lite ass to the curb this November? At least he could go out with some sense of dignity.
Too busy re-working the GOP platform for a change republicans can believe in.
BTTT
You can see by my tag line, Duncan Hunter was my candidate,
the person who has done the most over the past many years to get the fence going, and other issues on the border and against amnesty.
I live around 15 miles north of the busiest border crossing in the world, San Diego - Tijuana
Not thrilled about McCain but between he or Obama, McCain has a clue re the war against the IslamOfascists.
If we don’t win this, we won’t have to worry about the border.
I hear ya! ;-)
Once upon a time, a scorpion and a turtle both found themselves stranded upon a sinking island, with another island nearby.
The scorpion asked the turtle to take them both over to the other island, but the turtle said "No, If I take you you'll just sting me."
The scorpion assured him he wouldn't... but, alas: on the journey he promptly did precisely that. Just before they drowned, the turtle asked "Why?"
"I'm a scorpion," his attacker replied. "It's my nature; it's what I do."
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