Help Defeat Illegal Alien Farm Worker Amnesty Legislation

Federation For American Immigration Reform ^ | 9/30/03 | F.A.I.R.

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Help Defeat Illegal Alien Farm Worker Amnesty Legislation -- Take Action Now!

Urge Your Elected Officials to Oppose S.1645 and H.R. 3142

On September 23, Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representatives Chris Cannon (R-UT) and Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced companion farm worker amnesty bills, S.1645 and H.R. 3142. "The Agricultural Job, Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003" (AgJOBS bill) provides a "one-time" amnesty for illegal aliens engaged in farm work and their spouses and children. The bill also expands the H-2A agricultural guestworker program.

A broad coalition consisting of labor unions, agribusiness, the hospitality industry, the immigration law bar, and the usual supporters among open borders and illegal alien advocacy groups have aligned themselves in support of the legislation.

FAIR opposes this legislation and all other attempts to reward illegal aliens with amnesty. Please help us defeat the AgJOBS bill by urging your representative and senators and to oppose S.1645 and H.R. 3142.

Here's how it would work:

Illegal alien farm workers would be granted temporary residence if they worked the lesser of 575 hours or 100 work days during any 12 consecutive months between March 1, 2001 and August 31, 2003.

After working the lesser of 2,060 hours or 360 work days in agriculture in the six year period between September 1, 2003 and August 31, 2009, they could adjust their status to legal permanent resident.

Spouses and relatives gain legal permanent residency along with applicants.

Illegal aliens detained prior to enactment, if otherwise eligible for the amnesty, would not be deported.

Here's How You Can Help:

Type your zip code into the "take action now" box to send a free faxed message to your legislators opposing this legislation.

Follow up your faxed message with a phone call. Visit the elected officials

section of our web site for help contacting your legislators.

Forward this alert to your likeminded friends and family members and ask them to contact their elected officials.

Talking Points:

~ Any guestworker program that involves "earned legalization" is an amnesty, a reward for law-breaking that is vociferously opposed by the American public.

~ This is not only an amnesty for illegal aliens, it is also an amnesty for employers who have consistently violated federal employment laws.

~ Nothing in this bill will prevent employers from continuing to employ illegal aliens once the amnesty is in place.

~ Nothing in this bill will empower federal immigration enforcement authorities to properly enforce employer sanctions.

~ Nothing in this bill requires mandatory worker eligibility verification to prevent further illegal immigration.

For more information on why guestworker programs and amnesty are a bad idea, read the following FAIR issue briefs:

Permanent Guests: How Guestworker Programs Harm America

Why Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is a Bad Idea

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Guys, Please "freep" this bill. Peace and love, George.

[VU4G10]

"President Bush, your veto of this measure could reverse your slide in the polls"

LOL! When Hell Freezes Over!

[Modernman]

This might be a good idea if it was accompanied by a closing of the borders combined with massive efforts to assimilate those who were already here.

By itself, an amnesty is not good for America.

[IYAS9YAS]

Um, yeah. Okay. Most of the money they earn does not stay here. It goes back to Mexico. How does that help the economy?

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Bump and done.

[F.J. Mitchell]

If these people are as hard working as you claim, they should back home, working hard to bring their own country into the present.

[Arpege92]

You know the funny thing about MECHA is the fact that if they were to ever have California handed over to them permantely, the illegals would still be crossing over to the US.

[supercat]

What is your alternative? Throwing out all farmworkers? Some kind of guest worker program is the only way to keep the agricultural industry in the Southwest from going belly-up.

There may be a need for guest-worker legislation that would allow farmworkers to enter from Mexico on temporary visas. That does not, however, justify allowing line-jumpers more freedoms than those who attempt to go through this country's long and arduous legal immigration process.

Personally, I'd support an amnesty for illegal aliens iff it was modeled after the RIAA's "amnesty" program: if an illegal alien goes to a government office before Dec 31, 2003, gives a photograph and fingerprints, and signs a form acknowledging their nationality and agreeing that if they are caught in this country illegally after Jan 1, 2004, they'll go to prison for five years; then after they've signed that form they'll be allowed to go home (i.e. their country of origin).

[ZDaphne]

BTT

[Revolting cat!]

President Bush, your veto of this measure could reverse your slide in the polls.

Yep, as soon as the price of a pound of your favourite veggies doubles!

[JustPiper]

We are having a Counter Call-In Day TOMORROW, 10-2...the illegals will be flooding the WH and Congress tollfree numbers! Here is our chance to CALL IN and tell them what we think also!

Daily Thread: Illegal Alien Freedom Ride Counter Protest

Freeper's let's keep the lines busy with 'our' comments, please!?

[AuntB]

There's an interesting poll at www.cnn.com/lou. It asks: Should illegal aliens get the same rights as US Citizens? So far NO has 87%. Isn't it amazing how the politicians are only interested in the 13%??

[ETERNAL WARMING]

BTTT

[ETERNAL WARMING]

BTTT I love this site! It takes all of the work out of faxing your homeboys on the issues. You only enter your zip code, it pulls up your Senators and Reps for you! It also has prewritten items that you can cut and paste into the window. Then it's just your address and presto...they are faxed for you! If you havn't checked it out, click on the URL and try it out.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Action alerts are usually Breaking News.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Come on, don't you know we U.S. citizens should be forced to provide welfare, healthcare, education, etc. to every citizen around the planet? (sarcasm alert)

LOL Yeah, and if we don't, we're racists.

[Elliott Jackalope]

Yet another amnesty for illegals. What the heck.

Would someone please explain to me why I should have any regard for the law at this point in time? Anyone? Because I'm just about to lose it. If I said what I really wanted to say I would be banned, and that's after about four edits to tone this down!

Again, why should I give one flying fling at a rolling donut about the law? It's obvious that our "representatives" don't care about it, so why should the rest of us care? Why should we obey the law and go to work and pay taxes when we are betrayed every single day?

[Be active]

Done!

[NewRomeTacitus]

Ted Kennedy, like the Energizer Rabbit, never stops attempting to undermine American sovereignty. He is evil incarnate.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

You've been misinformed. Less than 2% of illegals actually pick your lettuce.

Less than 6% pay any taxes.

25% are on public assistance. Why should we taxpayers subsidize someone's cheap labor?

28% of the prison population are illegal aliens who have committed crimes against American Citizens.

They cost us taxpayers $20,000,000,000 a year.

They displace 730,000 US workers a year.