Posted on 05/17/2007 3:56:32 AM PDT by Old_Mil
...The amnesty compromise has been reached (at least 95% of it, anyway). Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Sen. Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Pres. Bush have negotiated a grand compromise between those who wanted a massive increase in foreign workers and those who wanted a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and virtually unlimited family chain migration. Nobody involved represented the American people's interest in immigration reductions. The first key vote will be next Monday night.
Senators are admitting privately that the bill will increase the number of greencards (for permanent settlement) by 20 million over the next 13 years. Added to the number that will be given out based on current law, that means 30-35 million greencards in just the next 13 years!
To give you an idea of how radically these Senators want to change our nation and communities, consider that there are around 25 million foreign-born now living in this country who have been given green cards over the last 75 years. That number already has overwhelmed and changed thousands of communities.
But the Senate negotiators and Pres. Bush want to raise that number of greencard holders in our communities from 25 million to 60 million in just the next 13 years!
Many Senators are telling staffers and other Senators that they are inclined to vote for the giant Kennedy/Bush amnesty bill (S. 1348) next week...
These are Senators who have voted against amnesty in the past. This makes me heart-sick. While we have given you a number of opportunities to make phone calls to express concern about the amnesty negotiations, we haven't pushed you hard until this week because the Republican negotiators assured us at every step of the way that they would not agree to anything that gives permanent legalization to illegal aliens.
Now that the "deal" has been revealed as a nearly total blanket amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens, it is obvious that the Republican negotiators and their staffs misled us, and misled you when you called. At this time, only 15 Senators are thought to be likely to vote against the amnesty next week.
Everybody on the Hill says constituent pressure the rest of this week and next week is the only thing that can add more NO votes. But they feel a lot of Senators' support for the amnesty bill is shallow and can change once they realize how politically risky it is to vote YES -- and to learn more details of the really horrible and costly parts of the bill. I should tell you that Rosemary Jenks (our director of government relations) remains optimistic that our grassroots mobilization can eke out 41 NO votes next week in a cloture vote -- that would kill the amnesty in the Senate. But that will happen only if tens of thousands more of you than normal pick up a phone and make a call.
KEY COMPONENTS OF THE KBK AMNESTY
Although we don't have the legislative language yet, here are the key components:
WE LOSE -- by getting an immediate amnesty for nearly all 12-20 million illegal aliens who will get legal status for residence and jobs (with assurance of green cards no later than 13 years).
IN EXHANGE FOR -- we get mandatory workplace verification and a lot of extra enforcement (with a lot of typical Kennedy loopholes) to try to slow the flow of the next 12 million illegal aliens enticed by the amnesty;
WE LOSE -- by getting a tripling of the rate of chain migration of extended family from around 250,000 a year to around 750,000 a year for about a decade;
IN EXCHANGE FOR -- after about a decade, there should be no more chain migration (assuming that Kennedy doesn't add it back in by then);
WE LOSE -- by getting new flows of 400,000 temporary foreign workers each year, bringing their families and having anchor babies who will be given U.S. citizenship;
IN EXCHANGE FOR -- at least the temporary workers are supposed to leave and not be able to apply for greencards and permanent residency.
WHY THE REPUBLICANS ARE STAMPEDING TO BACK THIS AMNESTY The majority of Republican Senators last year voted against the S. 2611 amnesty that passed.
But at a noon meeting today with nearly all GOP Senators, Sen. Kyl outlined the amnesty agreement he had negotiated with Sen. Kennedy. Our sources say only about three Senators raised concerns. Most of the rest were saying things like, "If you think this is a good idea, John, I guess that should be good enough for us."
Pres. Bush and staff have been brilliant in moving Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Martinez (R-Fla.) into a more secondary role and persuading conservative leader Kyl to lead the negotiations. Kyl is able to lead many Senators to follow him who would otherwise not support an amnesty of any kind.
At the moment, the only Senators whom we feel relatively certain are opposing this new amnesty are Sen. DeMint (R-SC), Enzi (R-Wyo.), Crapo (R-Idaho), Vitter (R-La.), Allard (R-Colo.), Sessions (R-Ala.), Chambliss (R-Ga.), Grassley (R-Iowa).
Between now and Monday those phones should NOT STOP ringing at Senate offices.
Agreed. We have a unique opportunity to turn thought into action here and act on a national level instead of as local chapters.
Oh my gosh, I just sent Saxby Chambliss a blistering letter regarding this. I did not however see Johnny Isakson on the list, he got one too. I will be calling today as well.
Sen. Chambliss has a poll on his webpage, vote which is your biggest concern.
Of the following issues, which do you think is most urgent in Georgia?
Crime/Methamphetamine:
7%
Illegal Immigration:
58%
Education:
14%
Health Care:
19%
Economic Development:
4%
4807 total votes
I hope he stands firm, his constituents are certainly clear.
I went and added my vote:)
My senators are part of the problem here- Martinez and Nelson. I call their offices constantly.
I will do the same. Thanks for the number all.
Que? No puedo hablar Englise.
They sell this country out for that ever lasting VOTE!
You’re right Gulfcoast...and what’s worse, if we cast votes for people like Rudy McRomney, we’re helping them do it.
The better deal would be to just annex mexico, break it into territories and exploit , YES, EXPLOIT its natural resources and bring its people UP to our standards.
Move the border to mexico's current southern border and wall it off. Hell they already control that border more effectively than we do ours.
It's not politcally correct but it is whats happening, it is the annexation of mexico. Do it right be upfront about it....by doing it in the manner we are doing it it will lower our way of living. Instead turn it into a project, a frontier, allow Good Ole AMERICAN ingenuity to develope mexico instead of hooking it to us and our kids like a boat anchor.
If any of you are receiving GOP donations requests..send the envelopes back empty..with a note on the outside..no amnesty.
I am also using Fedex to my two senators and Rep...that way they will definitely notice it...
When our troops were on the outskirts of Bagdad during GW1 and on the outskirts of Mexico City during the Mex/Am war. Instead of retreating..............finish the job!
Moving 60 million socialists into this country will completely destroy America and its tradition of individual freedom. We’re about to be swamped by socialism and its attendant collectivism. Wait until the newcomers decide that all your property is part of the commons and belongs to everyone.
About one in 20 adults in the U.S is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a study shows.
The adults deemed illiterate in English include people who may be fluent in Spanish or another language but cannot comprehend English at its most simple level. Russ Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences, said: "Eleven million people is an awful large number of folks who are not literate in English."
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/stats/developednations.html
Our Senators and Congressmen and President will do no less than back up to those that line their election money coffers that they get to keep once they leave office.
I’ll wait for a more objective source. I am very suspicious of those who call everything amnesty.
This may be the biggest act of treason that I have witnessed in my lifetime. I can not believe how some allegedly conservative senators have sold America out. What a travesty!
Some stiff legislation right now would correct the problem provided the government has the Kaunas to enforce their own laws which they selectively enforce now.
Simple, give a 90-day grace period to leave the country if one is here illegally. If caught after the date, you are deported then. If caught a second time entering illegally, that person is deported immediately again with no means to ever enter again legally. If caught a third time, then corporate America (prison farms and factories)get free labor for 5 years. If the illegal chooses not to work, then he gets no food; water only. After 5 years of labor, he is deported again. If he doesn't want to tell where he came from, then back to the farm. There's lots of aging baby boomers that could benefit from free labor in the form of government subsidized goods and services.
If every single criminal alien is not removed from this country and is given even a shred of acceptance in any way shape or form, IT IS AMNESTY!!!!
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