Ask your Senator to oppose any effort to attach the AgJOBS amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill
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THIS IS AN URGENT FAX REQUEST TO OPPOSE THE EFFORT TO ATTACH THE AGJOBS AMNESTY TO THE IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING BILL.
Our Capitol Hill team has learned that Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), the sponsor of the AgJOBS amnesty, is going to attempt to attach the massive illegal alien amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill when the Senate returns from recess in early April.
This, of course, is an outrageous effort to attach an amnesty for illegal aliens to counterterorrism legislation. However, it is a significant threat because if Sen. Craig is successful in attaching the amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill, it will very likely pass since most Senators will have a hard time voting against the Iraq supplemental spending bill.
Send this fax to your Senator asking them to oppose any effort to attach the AgJOBS amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.
BACKGROUND:
The AgJOBS agricultural guestworker-amnesty bill, S. 359, was introduced on February 10, 2005. This bill will reward thousands of illegal aliens with amnesty. Of the 1.2 million illegal aliens currently working in agriculture, an estimated 860,000, plus their spouses and children could have qualified for this amnesty, so the total could have reached three million or more.
A January 23rd Copley News Service article detailing the decreased need for agricultural workers in the raisin industry shows that S. 359, the AgJOBS amnesty bill introduced once again in the 109th congress by Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) is attempting to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist.
The article reports that, due to increased mechanization in the raisin industry, fewer workers are needed to harvest raisins. Where 50 workers were once needed, now only five are needed. The article goes on to report that, "[California] State officials believe two or three migrants are currently competing for each of California's 400,000 to 500,000 seasonal farm jobs. If machines pick the raisins, agricultural experts say, labor demand will drop to a tenth of the 40,000 to 50,000 workers typically hired today." You can read the full article here: http://www.numbersusa.com/actionbuffet/?action=showtext&ID=2672.
A similar situation has occurred in Florida where orange growers are increasingly relying on mechanization to help harvest oranges. The article provides further evidence that America does NOT have an agricultural worker shortage. Legal farmworkers can't find enough work to do and mechanization is eliminating a lot of jobs.
Sent to DiFi and Barbara Boxer...(alot of good it will do)
If you support the effort to attach the AgJOBS amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill, you will go on public record as supporting amnesty for illegal aliens. Not only that, but you will be watering-down a counterterrorism bill to improve national security by creating a massive loophole for illegal aliens and terrorists.
This will not go unnoticed. Please avoid pitting yourself against almost 75 percent of Americans and oppose every effort to attach the AgJOBS amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.
This past week, the President left Terri's fate up to the courts and our laws. And so she will die. Supposedly because we are "a nation of laws."
But this same President tacitly endorses millions of illegal immigrants breaking our existing immigration laws -- like them or not, Mr. President -- and proposes changing our reasonable and time-honored laws to accommodate this one special group of people.
Which advocacy appears more dear to him?
You can't make me more bitter than I am, so go ahead and flame.