While I would gladly work for NumbersUSA if they needed the help, I'm just a member posting an email. I thought you were a member.
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Posted on 07/07/2004 12:47:29 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
Victory!!! All of your phone calls and faxes have made the AgJOBS amnesty so controversial that Senate leaders a few minutes ago barred the AgJOBS amnesty from being submitted as an amendment today to the legislation on the floor.
As of last night, that amnesty definitely was coming up for a vote today. The power of constituency reaction was proven spectacularly this morning.
The open-borders Senators and lobbyists had failed to bring the AgJOBS amnesty up for a vote on the Senate floor in previous attempts to add as an amendment to Department of Defense appropriations and others. The only reason is that citizens like you have made the amnesty so controversial that Senate leaders have been fearful of putting it up for a vote.
But yesterday, Senate leaders had decided that they would allow a vote on adding AgJOBS amnesty to S. 2062 (the Class Action Reform Bill). The thought apparently was that this would help get more Democrats to eventually vote for the overall bill which is primarily supported by Republicans and opposed by Democrats.
But a few minutes ago, the leadership decided that AgJOBS would actually decrease the number of votes for the overall bill and ruled that only amendments that are related to the actual subject of the bill would be allowed. That ruled out AgJOBS.
Sen. Craig (R-ID) was furious and immediately took to the floor to make an emotional speech pledging to eventually bring this essential piece of legislation to a vote. But not today and probably not this week.
You now have an opportunity to influence at least two very important votes tonight in the House of Representatives.
Please make the phone calls requested below.
In the House of Representatives, in votes expected for this evening, two good immigration amendments will be offered to H.R. 4754, the Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005. These amendments would improve enforcement against illegal immigration. Their only chance of passage is if thousands of you call your Representative.
1. NEW ACTION TOOL-One click provides all phone numbers for your OWN 2 Senators & 1 Representative
As a NumbersUSA member, you now have a customized page reserved for you that provides all the contact information for your own three Members of Congress.
Any time we ask you to phone your own Members, you can do one click and get all the phone numbers you need.
There you will find: * Photos of your 2 Senators and 1 Representative * DC phone numbers * Phone numbers for all offices in your state * Addresses for offices in DC and state * Links to each Member's immigration Grades and Profiles
The only reason the above link won't bring up your customized page is if your computer has erased your NumbersUSA cookie or you have logged off NumbersUSA for some reason. For the small percentage of you in that situation, just go to the NumbersUSA.com home page and log in.
2. ACTION-Phone your Representative to support appropriations amendments that fight illegal immigration
These amendments are expected to come up for votes on the floor of the House TONIGHT.
Call up your Reprsentative and ask her/him to support all amendments offered to H.R. 4754 that would strengthen our fight against illegal immigration.
You may want to use this script:
"I am calling about H.R. 4754, the spending bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State.
"Please support all amendments offered to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration.
"In particular, I urge Rep. xmxmxm to vote YES on an amendment being offered by Rep. King that would provide funding for the Justice Department to more fully enforce federal laws against cities offering sanctuary to illegal aliens.
"I also ask that Rep. xmxmxmx vote YES on an amendment from Rep. Tancredo that would provide disincentives for cities to violate federal law by offering sanctuary to violators of immigration laws."
The amendment, to be offered by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), would essentially direct the Department of Justice to use $1 million of its total enforcement funding to enforce 8 U.S.C. 1373, the federal law that prohibits states and localities from enacting sanctuary policies.
This federal law was passed by Congress in 1996, as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
Thus far, the Justice Department has completely ignored blatant violations of the law by countless cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Chicago, and by the State of Maine, all of which have enacted sanctuary policies to protect illegal aliens from deportation by federal authorities.
Soon after the law was passed, New York City actually sued the federal government in an attempt to overturn the law. The court ruled in favor of the federal government, said the law was valid, and found that New York City's sanctuary policy violated it.
New York City has since repealed the policy.
The purpose of the King amendment is to force the Justice Department to challenge sanctuary cities and states in court so that they will repeal their illegal policies.
The amendment to be offered by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), is similar to the one we asked you to call about before the holiday recess. This amendment would prohibit State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) funds for states and localities that have enacted "sanctuary" policies in violation of federal law (8 U.S.C. 1373).
SCAAP was created to reimburse states for some of the costs of incarcerating illegal and criminal aliens.
The Tancredo amendment would deny such reimbursement to sanctuary cities and states on the grounds that, since they have chosen to violate existing federal law by refusing to share information on illegal and criminal aliens with federal immigration authorities, they should not be given federal funding under a program designed to increase cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
These two amendments are part of a broader strategy NumbersUSA has been working on to use the appropriations process to:
1) force a wider debate in Congress on immigration issues so that Members will begin to see it as a mainstream issue about which Americans are concerned; and
2) improve enforcement of existing immigration laws. We are working closely with Members of Congress to ensure that at least one immigration-related amendment will be offered to as many appropriations bills as possible.
This means we will be coming to you for help many times over the next few months. We can persuade a single Member to offer a particular amendment, but we have no chance of getting other Members to vote for the amendments without your help.
In the few instances of votes on these amendments over the last year, we have barely succeeded in getting 100 of the 218 votes required. But we are building up a fine voting record on which to hold Members accountable. And we have been gaining votes every time.
It is far preferable to lose votes than to not have any votes at all. By constantly putting up amendments like this, we create more and more of a record on which to embarrass and "out" the open-borders Members.
Eventually, of course, the goal is to actually pass one of these amendments.
Will today be "eventually?"
You demonstrated remarkable power over the last day in fighting AGAINST the AgJOBS amnesty in the Senate. What can yuou accomplish in SUPPORT of good legislation today?
3. ACTION-Send the rest of your faxes to oppose amnesty and to fight illegal immigration
Thousands of you have many fax messages in your customized fax page that have never been sent.
Please go to that page now, and click to send those messages. We need every office of Senator and Representative to have fax machines running all day with these messages. Don't worry about sending several faxes to the same recipient. Our computer automatically spaces out your messages to the same recipient by several hours to increase the effectiveness of them. The computer also prioritizes the faxes you send according to the priorities that we set for each day in what Congress most needs to hear.
Send more faxes at:
After I sent my 4th of July message to you late Sunday night, NumbersUSA faxers:
sent 11,149 faxes on Monday
sent 6,544 faxes on Tuesday
sent thousands of faxes between midnight last night and 8:00 this morning, and many more since
You can't imagine what a constant drumbeat of faxes like this does to an office. Keep up the good work.
4. VICTORY-AgJOBS threat averted again in Senate
The open-borders Senators and lobbyists had failed to bring the AgJOBS amnesty up for a vote on the Senate floor in previous attempts to add as an amendment to Department of Defense appropriations and others. The only reason is that citizens like you have made the amnesty so controversial that Senate leaders have been fearful of putting it up for a vote.
But yesterday, Senate leaders had decided that they would allow a vote on adding AgJOBS amnesty to S. 2062 (the Class Action Reform Bill). The thought apparently was that this would help get more Democrats to eventually vote for the overall bill which is primarily supported by Republicans and opposed by Democrats.
But a few minutes ago, the leadership decided that AgJOBS would actually decrease the number of votes for the overall bill and ruled that only amendments that are related to the actual subject of the bill would be allowed. That ruled out AgJOBS.
Sen. Craig (R-ID) was furious and immediately took to the floor to make an emotional speech pledging to eventually bring this essential piece of legislation to a vote. But not today and probably not this week.
Craig passed the 60 mark in co-sponsorships months ago that was supposed to ensure a vote and passage. But the efforts of the tens of thousands of you citizens in your faxes and phone calls has made the difference in holding off the votes thus far.
Part of the reason, the vote is not occurring is because you have persuaded a number of co-sponsors of the amnesty that they don't want to be saddled with a pro-amnesty vote. So they are asking leadership to keep the amnesty from the floor.
Our Capitol Hill team has discovered that the following AgJOBS co-sponsors privately now realize that they OPPOSE AgJOBS even though they remain on the bill.te the way they believe:
Senators McConnell, Thomas, Burns, and Coleman. Congratulations to all of you in their states for helping them apparently see the light.
And here are AgJOBS co-sponsors whom our Capitol Hill Team has found to have become very nervous about this bill because of incredible constituency opposition:
Dole, Lott, Voinovich, Roberts, and Gregg
Those of you who are constituents of those 9 Senators, please keep the pressure on.
Now, please make your phone calls to your Representative.
If you feel energetic, consider making a phone call to the Representatives in nearby Districts.
-- Roy Beck, NumbersUSA
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Please ping everyone you know who is concerned about illegal immigration and Congress's attempts to facilitate it. Thank you.
Thanks for this post.
FAIR, where Mr. Krikorian once worked, is run by Dan Stein and shares advisers and personnel with CIS and other members of the Tanton nexus. As our Jason Riley noted in a March op-ed, "By Dr. Tanton's own reckoning, FAIR has received more than $1.5 million from the Pioneer Fund, a white-supremacist outfit devoted to racial purity through eugenics."
Representative Cannon says, "Tanton set up groups like CIS and FAIR to take an analytical approach to immigration from a Republican point of view so that they can give cover to Republicans who oppose immigration for other reasons."
Bumping for a later read.
What the heck happened to Larry Craig?? I thought he had a bit of common sense left.
I clicked on your link and didn't see this article. Was this an email to you or do you work in the offices of NumbersUSA?
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
On the plus side, Bayou, your post will count for another point in the Friends of Vicente' Propaganda Program. You should have saved enough by now to choose between the "I Love Mexico" set of beach towels or the nifty cerveza cooler.
This is good news for those Americans who oppose amnesty for illegals. Chris Cannon and FatTeddy Kennedy are very sad to day.
Are you going to respond mo my question about the source of this "article" in post #6 ?
You opened the door with that question. I attended segregated schools in Louisiana in the 60s.
The segregationists used the exact same argument as y'all are using today against the Mexicans. Ie;.."I'm not prejudiced against Negroes, I just don't think they should attend white schools. I have nothing against the ones who know how to behave and practice good hygiene, it's just the ones that are trouble makers and smell."
Not you, but other anti-"illegal" immigrants say "I'm not prejudiced against Mexicans, just the ones who initially entered the U.S. without a visa. You know, the ones who rape our white women and sell drugs to our children and litter and trespass and have babies...."
The segregationists of the 60s were just as self righteous as the xenophobes today. But at least they had enough self respect to wear hoods when they loaded their guns and went out at night looking for illegal border crossers trouble making Negroes.
While I would gladly work for NumbersUSA if they needed the help, I'm just a member posting an email. I thought you were a member.
Beavis:"Él dijo a miembro, Heh heh."
Butthead:"Bayourod nos dará trabajos."
""Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
I'm sure they have ALL fooled us more than once. Even the ones we like. So shame on us all.....
BTTT
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