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Liberals Sneak Amnesty for Illegals Into Iraq Funding Bill
Compiled from various emal sources | Today! | TBP

Posted on 05/19/2008 8:32:19 AM PDT by TBP

Last Thursday, a Gigantic Illegal Alien Amnesty was attached to the War funding bill in the Senate. . .

Sellout Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) have successfully inserted the "Ag Jobs" amnesty components into the Iraq War funding bill.

Because this amnesty is attached to a so-called "must-pass" funding bill, it will now prove very difficult to defeat.

If it passes, this bill will GIVE AN AMNESTY to about 3 MILLION Illegal Aliens agricultural workers and their families for five years (at least!)

They could vote on the spending bill today or tomorrow. If the bill passes with this language included it will grant a form of AMNESTY to millions of illegal aliens working on farms.

It would:

Grant a three-year work visa followed by a permanent greencard to all illegal aliens who have been working as shepherds, goat herders and dairy herders.

Grant a five-year work visa to the estimated 1.3 million illegal aliens working in other agricultural jobs -- plus all of their families. There is no instruction on what happens after the five years.

Grant a tripling of the maximum number of H-2B visas for lower skill, non-agricultural seasonal workers.

Grant industries an extra 218,000 additional permanent green cards for skilled foreign workers.

Friends, perhaps you are thinking what I'm thinking: Don't these Senators know that we are in an economic recession, or close to it? Don't they know that unemployment rates have been going up and that industries across the country are shedding both skilled and unskilled jobs?

You only have to meet ONE of the following three criteria to get the amnesty:

Earned $7,000 working in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.

Or worked 863 hours in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.

Or worked at least a little bit in agriculture on 150 different days during the 2004-2007 period.

That amounts to an average of $1,750 per year ...

... or 216 hours per year (the equivalent of 4 hours per week) ...

... or parts of 37 days per year.

DO THEY THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY ACCEPT THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS WORKING THAT LITTLE IN AGRICULTURE ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF AGRI-BUSINESS IN AMERICA!!!!!!

The answer is that they really hope we are that stupid or just incredibly unfocused.

We must take immediate action.

1. Call Dianne Feinstein and Larry Craig and give their staff an earful within reason. Follow-up your call with an e-mail or fax.

2. Call both of your US Senators immediately. If you get a voicemail, leave a message. Tell your Senators NO AG JOBS AMNESTY! NO DEFENSE SPENDING BILL WITH AG JOBS IN IT! Make sure you call, and immediately send a written complaint after calling.

3. Then proceed to call as many other members of the US Senate as possible with the same message. Call them all if you can.

4. Email them.

5. Call the radio talk shows in your area and talk about this bill.

We need a strong and immediate reaction from across the nation to this move by Feinstein and Craig!

Diane Feinstein pulled her fast one, and the battle we didn't want is now upon is. We must respond.

We can beat this amnesty ONLY if all of you send faxes, make phone calls, send emails, and otherwise make your views known to your members.

This amendment is just another attempt by the amnesty crowd to do away with our borders. We must be strong and active to short-circuit this latest underhanded attempt to impose amnesty on us.

We beat them last year because the American people FOCUSED for a few weeks and told the U.S. Senators who is their boss. We must beat them again this year. Do not let these corrupt officials get away with this underhanded legislative trick.


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KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; congress; immigrantlist; iraq; liberals; third
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To: Ben Ficklin

No real difference. Amnesty is amnesty.


21 posted on 05/19/2008 10:01:19 AM PDT by TBP
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To: savedbygrace

Capitol switchboard toll free number is 800-965-4701.


22 posted on 05/19/2008 10:04:15 AM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP
“Grant a tripling of the maximum number of H-2B visas for lower skill, non-agricultural seasonal workers.....”

Vail Resorts, which runs Vail, Beaver Creek, Heavenly, Breckenridge and Keystone resorts Is directly behind this part. They hire almost 60% of their seasonal work force under H-2B and J-1J visas. It is about time that they were forced to pay REAL WAGES to Americans.

23 posted on 05/19/2008 10:15:53 AM PDT by WellyP (How much does Huma know?)
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To: wastedyears; JoJo Gunn; Marcella; Shermy; Gaffer; org.whodat; Cicero; cripplecreek; Ron H.; ...
Liberals Sneak Amnesty for Illegals Into Iraq Funding Bill

We beat the McCain-Kennedy bill twice last year because Americans told the Senate who their boss is. Time to beat them again. Do not let these corrupt officials get away with this underhanded legislative trick.

ACTION Call your US Senators, Senate Minority Leader McConnell, candidate McCain, bill sponsors Sens Larry Craig, Finestein,

Capitol switchboard toll free: 800-965-4701.

24 posted on 05/19/2008 10:27:59 AM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Liz

I already called. I was told that it is NOT an amnesty it is a pathway to citizenship.....then she hung up on me.


25 posted on 05/19/2008 10:37:44 AM PDT by sheana
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To: TBP

This proves that we have lost control of this country. Government of, by and for the people is just an empty statement now. We need to take it back and we can still do it but it will take hard work and dedication to turn this around. Our votes alone won’t do it. Our senate and house do what they want and could care less about the people of this country if they can gain power by their actions. Let me tell you, if we had real conservatives in the republican party, more of them that is, this wouldn’t have been allowed to be attached to any bill, let alone a military funding bill.


26 posted on 05/19/2008 10:44:28 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Ben Ficklin; TBP

There is a difference, but in this case it is truly amnesty to the path, because the 5-year clause makes them eligible for citizenship.

If it was three years, and included a provision that excluded them from citizenship, then it would be the “guest-worker” provision, rather than an amnesty-citizenship provision.


27 posted on 05/19/2008 10:49:20 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT (Green, but not gullible)
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To: sheana
I already called. I was told that it is NOT an amnesty it is a pathway to citizenship.....then she hung up on me.

Call back. Ask what a "pathway to citizenship" has to do with Iraq funding.

28 posted on 05/19/2008 11:02:30 AM PDT by Petruchio (Democrats are like Slinkies... Not good for anything, but it's fun pushing them down the stairs.)
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To: Petruchio

My first question to her was... What does an amnesty for illegals have to do with supplemental funding for Iraq?


29 posted on 05/19/2008 11:09:21 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

Call back.

Tell them your message is for the Senator exclusively.

Tell them at this time, you are NOT engaging in a debate with them-—you are AGAINST a pathway to citizenship.


30 posted on 05/19/2008 11:30:52 AM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: TBP

Do you have a bill number for this?

Is it pretty much the same as what Feinstein/Craig introduced in 2007 (S.237/S.340)?

That bill also made aliens qualifying for their new “blue card status” exempt from prosecution for identity theft and other fraudulent acts.


31 posted on 05/19/2008 11:33:39 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Liz

I called the local office and the gal was very nice.
The first call was to the D.C. office.
And, of course I will call back. They don’t scare me :)


32 posted on 05/19/2008 11:36:26 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana
.....of course I will call back. They don’t scare me....

Damn----you're tough (grin).

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Keep in mind that constituent messages for lawmakers are protected by several laws.

So if this person flips you around, she may be breaking laws.

33 posted on 05/19/2008 11:43:52 AM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Liz

Phoning working before and it will again. Let’s get going!


34 posted on 05/19/2008 11:53:09 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Liz; All

See 24. We must take action again.


35 posted on 05/19/2008 11:56:59 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: CharlesWayneCT
You are correct about the 5 year clause, but.......

If Feinstein is sincere, and the GOP were to respond sincerely, they would find a compromise as they did in 2006 with Hagel-Martinez and 2007 with touch-back.

Myself, I think it merely campaign strategy.

36 posted on 05/19/2008 12:17:41 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: TBP

Remember no vote for McCain is a vote for Obama, and thus for even worse amnesty.


37 posted on 05/19/2008 12:18:45 PM PDT by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support for Obama.)
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To: SolidWood
no vote for McCain is a vote for Obama

No, it's not, adn your GOP scaremongering tactics aren't working.

38 posted on 05/19/2008 12:31:30 PM PDT by TBP
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To: apocalypto; All
Liberals Sneak Amnesty for Illegals Into Iraq Funding Bill

We beat the McCain-Kennedy bill twice last year because Americans told the Senate who their boss is. Time to beat them again. Do not let these corrupt officials get away with this underhanded legislative trick.

ACTION Call your US Senators, Senate Minority Leader McConnell, candidate McCain, bill sponsors Sens Larry Craig, Finestein,

Capitol switchboard toll free: 800-965-4701.

39 posted on 05/19/2008 12:32:06 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Liz

Jeff Sessions is addressing the Senate on this right now.


40 posted on 05/19/2008 1:36:21 PM PDT by NoAmnesty (I don't have a tagline, but if I did, it would be here!)
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