Dear.......
Thank you for contacting my office to express your views regarding illegal immigration. I appreciate your providing me with the benefit of your thinking on this matter.
I, too, am opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens. I have successfully blocked attempts to grant amnesty in recent years, and voted against others. I will continue to speak, and vote, in opposition to amnesty, which rewards immigrants for breaking the law by entering the country illegally.
I agree completely that more needs to be done to defend our borders. That is why I have supported building a fence along the southern border with Mexico, and have secured funds to accomplish the task as quickly as possible. I have also worked to provide funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to hire additional border patrol agents, immigration enforcement officers, and criminal investigators, as well as to expand detention facilities for illegal immigrants arrested in the United States.
You may be dure that I share your views on tightening our border security, and that I will continue to do all I can to defend our nation's borders.
With kind regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Robert C. Byrd
We shall see. I just sent him another fax telling him to vote NO on the cloture coming up.
The following GOP senators are reportedly learning “against” the bill but leaning FOR cloture.
In other words, they’re trying to fool us.
Bond
Burr
Cochran
Ensign
Gregg
Hatch
Here are e-mail addresses for their chiefs of staff or other top aides. Be brief, direct, and polite:
brian_klippenstein@bond.senate.gov
natasha_hickman@burr.senate.gov
jenny_manley@cochran.senate.gov
patricia_knight@hatch.senate.gov