Posted on 08/14/2009 9:59:07 AM PDT by FAIRcomm
Radio Talk Hosts Prepare for Historic Two-Day Broadcast Blitz Live from Washington
50 Talk Hosts Gathering to Support Secure Borders and Continued Immigration Enforcement
(Washington DC) The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) announces September 15th and 16th as the dates for its annual Hold Their Feet to the Fire radio rally in Washington, D.C. 50 radio hosts, led by Roger Hedgecock of KOGO-AM in San Diego and Lou Dobbs of United Stations Radio Network and CNN, are scheduled to broadcast live from “Radio Row” on Capitol Hill.
As in previous events, talk show hosts from around the nation will press the issue of real immigration reform with Congressional guests, activists, high profile media personalities, and experts. In addition to two days of continuous broadcasting, Hold Their Feet to the Fire features a press conference on the West Lawn of the Capitol and an evening We The People reception honoring those who have made significant contributions to meaningful immigration reform. “This administration is affirmatively dismantling immigration enforcement and laying the groundwork for a massive amnesty,” said Dan Stein, President of FAIR. “Powerful special interests are now in full force pushing for amnesty and more foreign guest workers with no regard to the plight of the American worker, wages, a deteriorating economy or our national security. Radio talk hosts representing millions of Americans will speak on their behalf, and their collective voice is a voice that roars.”
About FAIR and Hold Their Feet to the Fire: Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country’s largest immigration reform group. With over 250,000 members nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. Hold Their Feet to the Fire is an annual immigration media event and is a joint production of FAIR and participating radio and television stations.
Activists/General Public should contact Susan Tully at 608-675-3400
Media and Congressional Members and Staff should contact Dustin Carnevale at 202-328-7004.
2. NO ...... AMNESTY!
I like Roger Hedgecock at KOGO in San Diego but congress is not in session so there is not many people they can meet with.
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September 15th and 16th
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We need to address legal immigration as well. We don’t need 1.2 million legal immigrants annually, most of whom are poor and undeducated. And we are bringing now 138,000 legal foreign workers A MONTH NOW.
Don’t have your Fair folks miss the opportunity to come to the Free Republic National Convention on 9/12!
See link above!
B U M P
GOP politicians ignore this subject, including Sarah Palin and NEWT. They better start listening to the people!
FYI
Most Voters Say Immigration Reform Not Likely to Pass
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Voter preferences are clear, however. By a 70% to 22% margin, voters say that gaining control of the borders is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already in the country.
Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. Roughly the same number want cops to check the immigration status of all offenders during traffic stops. Sixty-seven percent (67%) also say that if law enforcement officers know of places where immigrants gather to find work, they should sometimes conduct surprise raids to identify and deport those who are here illegally. On another hot button topic, 77% of voters nationwide oppose drivers’ licenses for undocumented immigrants.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters nationwide say that those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be punished. By a 48% to 36% margin, voters say the same about landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.
This will be the “Next Waterloo”
If they think Obamacare has pissed people off . . . just wait until they try this amnesty crap again.
Whoa Nellie
Yes. These poor people need to be humanely and gently all removed to their country of origin. They have violated our immigration laws and should be DEPORTED. There are no jobs here if we put employers of illegals in prison.
All good guys and gals at this meeting. We need to keep the pressure on beating DeathCare because it is a trojan horse for illegal immigration.
Also if we stop DeathCare then they will not try amnesty or cap and trade.
I drove past two bar/restaurants last night on the way home. It was past midnight and I had been working late.
The restaurant/bar catering to illegal alien Brazilians was packed with probably 200 people in a place that can hold 125. This is like this every work night.
The American bar/restaurant had a few car in the parking lot.
The Americans were home sleeping to get up the next morning to go to work to pay taxes for the endless freebies the illegals get including: free healthcare, free perscrip drugs, food stamps, welfare, soc security, medicaid, housing vouchers, free $10,000 a year education per child plus breakfast lunch and afternoon “snack’ aka dinner plus othere benefits.
I am sick of this BS. Resist!
I’m fine with this if we discuss the fact that we have huge numbers of Chinese, African, Arab and Eastern European illegals. They are all health and crime problems: the Eastern Europeans and Chinese go for organized crime and prostitution, while the Africans and Arabs go mostly for welfare fraud and terrorism.
We have to move this away from Latin Americans, because they’re only a part of the problem and by no means the worst part of it. If people keep on attacking Latin Americans (who generally work and very often actually just want to stay here long enough to earn money to go back home), this problem is not going to be solved because it makes anti-illegal immigration people look like a bunch of bigots and not people who are concerned about a serious problem.
Obama’s aunt isn’t Latin American, and I can assure you that she’s just one of unknown thousands of illegal African immigrants in this country. There are illegal Chinese immigrants living in the kitchens of who knows how many Chinese restaurant in the US (literally - sleeping in the kitchens and going to the bathroom in the sink), and there are probably Albanian and Somali illegals selling drugs in your own town.
Uh oh! Sounds like more demogoguery!
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52527
Speaking in Mexico, Obama Calls American Opponents of Immigration Amnesty ‘Demagogues’
(CNSNews.com) - At a joint press conference with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister in Mexico on Monday, President Barack Obama referred to American opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens as “demagogues.” Obama, who wants a “pathway to citizenship,” admitted it would require bipartisan cooperation: “There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable,” he said.
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