Bush set for immigration speech

WRIC News ^ | 5-14-06 | AP

[JustPiper]

BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's "passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[JustPiper]

From Numbers USA

Senate finished votes for this week.....Next votes Monday night

A TOUGH WEEK IN THE SENATE ... BUT THERE IS STILL REASON FOR HOPE TO STOP THE RADICAL AMNESTY AND MASS IMMIGRATION INCREASE

Immigration sanity is on the losing side most of the time in the U.S. Senate this week.

But we are winning a few significant amendments.

All in all, more Senators are voting on our side than our allies on the Senate staffs had expected. They are somewhat buoyed by the results thus far (because they started with an extremely negative view of the Members of the Senate).
View all the actions and proposals at:

http://www.NumbersUSA.com

[La Enchiladita]

Is it you and me instant messaging now?

Where's .... Tiger?

[La Enchiladita]

[JustPiper]

They all left us,Hey tiger!

[JustPiper]

Don't be too discouraged by the failure of the good amendments this week. I have to remind you that the purpose of the amendments, in our view, is not to try to make the Senate bill something we could live with. That bill is corrupted in every detail and could not be amended into a decent bill unless 90% of it were deleted and replaced.

The reason the amendments matter to us at NumbersUSA is that:

1. They give us a lot of ways to get each Senator on record on individual issues so that voters can hold them accountable.

2. They force Senators to think about the individual components and how they would like to be identified with them. That's why more are voting with us than were expected.

3. They provide a few good provisions that can be used in Conference Committee to help our friends in the House note that they are something that both chambers agree on.

4. They help establish before the final vote which Senators need to be bolstered and which ones can be switched to our side. Over the weekend, I will be bringing you an analysis of all the votes this week to help you with that.

This evening on Capitol Hill, I heard Rosemary Jenks (our Director of Government Relations) tell a group of immigration-reduction leaders that she still believes that we can stop the amnesty bill from going through the Senate next week ...

... but only with gigantic constituent pressure.

[JustPiper]

A. If you can swing it at all, please physically go to the offices of your Senators that are in your area.

Take a copy of their Grade Cards. Take a list of the votes this week that you want to emphasize.

Look through the amendments handled thus far and pick out the ones that matter most to you. Click on the vote tally link to see what your two Senators did. Then, when you go to their offices, talk to their staff about those votes.

Your main point, though, has to be that the Senators must vote against S. 2611, primarily because it would:

1. Grant a citizenship amnesty to most of the 12 million illegal aliens in the country.

2. Double annual legal immigration from 1 million to 2 million, overwhelming our community infrastructures and most of our occupations.

3. Create a massive new "guest" worker program in which the guest never have to go home.

4. All in all, give around 66 million permanent-residency green cards to foreign workers and dependents over the next 20 years.

B. Continue your phone calls to DC and home state offices.

Use the same information, I just described for office visits.

If they are one of the 35 Senators who are voting right on almost every amendment, just praise them and tell them that their failure on most of the amendments makes it even more urgent that they vote against the final bill.

If they are voting badly on some or most amendments, tell them why you are upset at them and urge them to not saddle their career with the albatross of having voted to crowd 66 million more foreign workers and dependents into the communities, schools, highways, housing and job markets of this country.

Use the word "amnesty" a lot. If you saw Sen. Hagel (R-NE) flip out on C-SPAN this week when he heard the word, you understand just how scared many of the open-borders Senators are of our side successfully attaching "amnesty" to their name and record.

THE MAJORITY OF SENATORS ARE IN A DEFIANT MOOD. THEY DON'T REALLY LIKE THEIR CONSTITUENTS WHO THEY KNOW DISAPPROVE OF THEIR OPEN-BORDERS POSITIONS. THEY ARE ANGRY THAT THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR OPINIONS.

We are getting consistent feedback from those of you who are phoning the open-borders Senators that their staffers for the most part are busy denying what their bosses did.

Finally, let me say that one of our closest allies in the U.S. House told us over dinner tonight that he feels the House Republican majority is becoming more firm in standing against any nonsense coming from the Senate. We can't take them for granted or stop fighting in the Senate, but we can have some comfort knowing that most House Republicans are totally against what Pres. Bush and Senator Kennedy (D-MA) are trying to push through the Senate.

As all of you know, NumbersUSA is fiercely non-partisan. We do not try to help one Party or the other.

But I have to tell you that one of our hopes of stopping the Senate immigration insanity is that Republicans in Congress can band together in this way: The vast majority of the House is on our side. In most of the votes that we have lost this week in the Senate, around two-thirds of the Republican Senators have been on our side. So, even if the Republican Bush and nearly all the Democratic Senators push through this disastrous S. 2611 bill, the majority of Republicans in the Senate are likely to have voted against it.

That would make it possible for the House Republicans to appeal to the majority of the Republican majority of the Senate to band together to kill S. 2611 and pass some real enforcement legislation.

In the end, the Republicans will be asking themselves if they want to risk their base sitting at home this fall because they decided to help Pres. Bush pass Sen. Kennedy's immigration dream bill.

PLEASE DON'T STOP THE PRESSURE -- FINAL AMNESTY VOTE MAY BE MID-NEXT WEEK,

-- ROY

[TheLion]

I didn't think of the time difference....smack me! It wasn't a great show but was good.

[JustPiper]

Hey some encouraging news from Numbers a few posts back

[potlatch]

Interesting story SmartA, guess all the illegals fled.

[TheLion]

Good!

[JustPiper]

A Ringtone That Caused So Much Noise

An Austin man has stirred up a national controversy with what some are calling a racist ringtone. The ringtone for a cell phone is one of the latest hot-button issues in the illegal immigration debate.

If you click upper left hand corner on:
A Ringtone That Caused So Much Noise
You can watch the interview with him, what about His 1st Amendment rights as an American Latino?!

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=4920409&nav=0s3d

Tone Deaf
From the "I can't leave you kids alone for a minute" files: While I was out of town for a few days last week, it looks like ME Television VJ Paul Saucido got himself into a dustup about a ring tone.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-05-19/screens_tveye.html

[JustPiper]

Fifty-thousand petitions in 36-hours!

That is how many new citizen signers have signed
Grassfire's "Stop the Invasion" petition--pushing
us ever closer to the 500,000 petition mark!

Next week, Grassfire will be traveling to Washington, D.C.,
to present half-a-million petitions to key members of
the Senate BEFORE they vote on the controversial
immigration reform bill.

But that's only a part of what Grassfire is doing to
give you the greatest possible impact we can on this issue.

Steve Elliott and Ron De Jong have prepared a special
update for key members of our team that cannot be missed.
Please click here to listen:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=772&rid=10943839

++Critical Phase in the Senate

The Senate is committed to passing a bill before the Memorial Day recess. That is why it is critical that we use the power of petitions to target those Senators who are "surrendering" to the demands of the illegals.

We have less than a week to rally 150,000 citizen
signers, and we are depending on team members to make the
difference.

In addition to the standard way of rallying friends and
family by forwarding this message, and urging friends to
click on the link below:

http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=10943839

[JustPiper]

NO BILL is better than a bad bill

BTTT!

[potlatch]

Thanks Piper! I just got this in an email, you have probably already seen it but just in case;

http://www.wehategringos.com/index2.shtml

[JustPiper]

Senate Sends Mixed Signals on English

The Senate voted Thursday to make English the national language of the United States. Sort of.

Moments after the 63-34 vote, it decided to call the mother tongue a "common and unifying language."

"You can't have it both ways," warned Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., a fan of "national" but not "common and unifying." Two dozen senators disagreed and voted for both as the Senate lumbered toward an expected vote next week on a controversial immigration bill.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/18/D8HMGLG81.html

[JustPiper]

~Disgusting isn't it?

[JustPiper]

Your fav thing

[JustPiper]

Lack of prosecutions demoralizing Border Patrol

SAN DIEGO – The vast majority of people caught smuggling immigrants across the border near San Diego are never prosecuted for the offense, demoralizing the Border Patrol agents making the arrests, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press.

“It is very difficult to keep agents' morale up when the laws they were told to uphold are being watered-down or not prosecuted,” the report says.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060518-1416-wst-immigration-prosecutions.html

[TheLion]

The illegals are bringing all kinds of goodies with them....

A Ticking Time Bomb: Diseases that Cross American Borders
by John W. Whitehead
12/13/2004

Illegal aliens, by avoiding health screenings at U.S. borders, carry TB, the most serious being MDR, a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis with a higher death rate than cancer. According to the New York Academy of Sciences, Update, January 2002, “TB bacteria readily fly through the air, as when an afflicted person coughs. It’s estimated that each victim will infect 10, 20 or more people—in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential ‘time bomb’ effect.”

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes, “illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.”

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically, the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. “Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected,” writes Donald G. McNeil, Jr. in the New York Times (November 18, 2003), “and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode.” Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases ever reported in the United States. Two of those three died. Moreover, “Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.”

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not merely confined to the border states. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17% increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188% increase over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. And in Queens, N.Y., the health department found that “immigrants” made up 81% of new TB cases in 2001.

What does this mean for American citizens? As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes: “It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.”

While we are engaged in far-away wars costing billions of dollars, America is simultaneously engaged in an ominous battle at our borders, which are as porous as they were at 9/11. Even the recently passed intelligence bill offers little hope for a solution. Will it take an epidemic to force our President and Congress to act? Or will it take another terrorist attack on American shores to get the attention of the federal bureaucrats who have been charged with protecting American citizens?

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http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=313