Immigration Supporters to Blitz Hill

The New York Times ^ | June 11, 2007 | By Michael Sandler and Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff

[BornInASmallTown]

Interest groups will blitz Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to revive a nearly dead immigration overhaul, with a mission of bringing it back for one more try on the Senate floor. President Bush also will personally make his pitch in a rare Capitol Hill trip Tuesday. But whether they have the influence to push a bipartisan compromise past a political stalemate could determine whether Bush gets an immigration bill this year — or the issue fades until after he leaves office.

Frank Sharry, executive director for the National Immigration Forum — a coalition of Hispanic Advocacy groups, business leaders, labor unions and clergy — called the impasse a temporary setback and said the coalition is “optimistic about getting it back to the Senate Floor.”

Eliseo Medina, executive vice president for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said his organization will continue to press for action this year. “We are looking to just try to get it out with Republicans not doing any more damage than they have done,” Medina said. “We are going to be mobilizing a lot more activity in the field to make sure it does happen.”

Lending perhaps the most influential policy voice will be the president. Bush is expected to make a rare appearance at the GOP senators’ policy lunch Tuesday to implore his caucus to get behind a bill that the administration and some of the Senate’s most conservative members helped draft. The Republicans he will likely be targeting include Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, both of Georgia, who were closely involved in drafting the deal but have yet to fully commit, and perhaps John Ensign of Nevada and John Cornyn of Texas, who are undecided.

[RKV]

Time to man the phones again folks.

[BMC1]

I guess we will find out who our Senators in the Senate whore house are loyal to.

Will they side with Americans or with the illegals.

We will soon find out who is willing to sell out this country to illegals.

[WashingtonSource]

These people are always blitzing the Hill. They never go home. How will this be different?

[RegulatorCountry]

Frank Sharry, executive director for the National Immigration Forum — a coalition of Hispanic Advocacy groups, business leaders, labor unions and clergy

Not exactly an unbiased party. Likely racist, too, unless you buy into the whole notion that only white people can even be racist in this country.

Eliseo Medina, executive vice president for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said his organization will continue to press for action this year.

Oh, and here we have a union shill and a racist, hoping to expand his number. What sort of delusion is our president operating under? Where does his allegiance lie?

[Diogenesis]

Reasons to support the Chappaquidesque 'Infectious Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Morgellons disease, Typhoid, Measles,
Mumps, Leprosy, Dengue fever, Cholera, Plague, Polio and Felon Importation Act of 2007.'

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[capt. norm]

This is actually good because all the usual jerks will show up with their Mexican flags and anti-American posters, etc. They will make a disgraceful display of themselves and will hurt their cause even further....like they have done every time before.

[Cacique]

This is not over yet. Bush refuses to give up this easily. It's his stuborn character. He will try to resurect it and call it something else. We have to keep our guard up. We need to keep the pressure up.

STAGE TWO is to go after the people who hire illegals. Start giving them fines and arresting them. Just catch ten or 100 of them on the nightly news. The magnet will dry up and most of the 12 million will go home by themselves.

As an adendum, we should anonymously call the IRS, people working "off the books" means taxes ain't being paid. Make anonymous fliers and hang them around the neighborhood, name names. It's time to embarras these bustards, whether they give to the GOP or Rats, we don't need them.

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!

WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!

Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.

[Sunshine Sister]

Hey Eliseo and Frank...........the American people don’t want this. When will you get that through your think skulls?

[TomGuy]

Bush...will huddle with Republicans on Tuesday at a luncheon in the Capitol [from another article]

I get two images: John Kerry sitting alone at a table in Iraq after he made his infamous joke, and Cindy Sheehan sitting alone at a table for a book signing.

Bush may find himself sitting alone at the table during his arm-twisting visit.

[Penny]

One "blitzer" of the Hill will be Nash Produce (some of you may recall the thread Saturday detailing the owner, Mr. Joyner, complaining that his crops were rotting).

Well, today's e-mail brought the following rather caustic reply to my message castigating Mr. Nash for greed and unlawfulness and a lack of patriotism for his hiring of illegal aliens. It convinced me NOT!

(Ms. Marie, I wonder if you sent the email after dinner on Saturday night. If you did and enjoyed a salad, most of the ingredients were harvested by immigrants. Unfortunately, local help is not available to harvest crops regardless of the wages. It is seasonal in nature and crews move from area to area harvesting crops. I am confident most workers make more money than the average paid to workers at the Dell Mfg plant in the western part of the state. The average rate of pay at that plant was under $9.00 per hour and the state paid money to bring in the factory. Workers harvesting crops usually work piece rate. The H2a program which is the current guest worker program for agriculture in NC, guarantees workers $9.02 per hour plus housing plus transportation. I wonder if I could get some of the Dell workers to come harvest crops for a few weeks.
Enjoy lunch!!
Regards,
G Thomas Joyner
richardjoyner@nashproduce.com
Nash Produce
O 252-443-6011
C 252-904-5328

I plan on writing Mr. Nash again (not that it will change his mind, of course) to let him know that his whining and lying about a shortage falls on this gal's educated ears and that this gal is willing to pay another 25 cents for a head of lettuce for American pickers instead of trillions of dollars the American people will have to pay eventually if Bush/Kennedy?McCain/Kyle/Graham et al. prove that many deep pockets pull their strings.

Regards . . . Penny

[Obie Wan]

Well we’ll have have to make more noise and yell even louder then Bush the Bushbots and the D’craps who won’t quit trying to ram this unGodly legislation (Kennedy,McCain,Bush banana bill) down our throats !!!

[AuntB]

I’ve been faxing today and am getting through on every number the first time, which means we are not busy enough!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[ExTexasRedhead]

I was on the telephone this morning. I suggest calling the RNC in DC and informing the leadership that there will be no $$ and no campaign workers for any POS that vote in favor of this garbage. Let the leadership whisper in the deaf ears of these out-of-control out-of-touch traitors in the GOP. They’re toast! They can start packing early.

RNC-DC 202-863-8500

Call each Senator and deliver the same message.

[isrul]

This time they have a stooge in the WH obsessed with changing America into something ugly and inferior to what it once was.

[RegulatorCountry]

G Thomas Joyner

My, my, and what an illustrious surname in the state of North Carolina, that this man is willing to sully for a buck or two.

[sirchtruth]

Ya know this should royaly piss any red-blooded America straight off. Who do these Illegal Immigration, Amnesty pushers think they are? If any Republican senator meets with any of these groups we should make it a mission to vote their sorry asses out next election!

Pro legal immigration forces need to really start fighting, I mean the whole 9 yards!

Americans should be up their ourselves opening up an industrial size can of whoop-ass!

[goldfinch]

You are right. I have been able to get through easily today.

Call, write, email.

[RKV]

Dear Penny, you might add this to your note.

Dear Mr. Joyner,
Speaking as a native American whose first job was hoeing weeds in a vineyard, 55 hours a week all summer, I can say this without hesitation ... raise the wages and you will get pickers. Oh yeah, and you’ll have to start obeying health and safety laws too, Americans won’t put up with that cr@p. And if I pay another nickel a head for lettuce, it’ll be worth it.
Regards,
RKV