Posted on 05/08/2002 11:29:15 PM PDT by Helix
FROM: Roy Beck, executive director, NumbersUSA Action
DATE: 9:30 p.m. Wednesday 7may02
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Take action now against the latest Bush amnesty attempt.
============== THE ACTIONS ==============
1. The Members of the House Appropriations Committee from your state need to hear from you immediately.
Please go to:
http://www.NumbersUSA.com/fax
(If you are on the HOME page, click on FAX CONGRESS FREE.) You will find on the Fax Center page Fax No. 999. (If nobody from your state is on the committee, you will not see the fax.)
Please read Fax No. 999 and, if you agree with it, send it.
2. Send Fax 9991 to the White House. Pres. Bush needs to be told by aides that this new sneak attack of his is being noticed an generating among the top 10 of contacts by Thursday noon.
3. Send this Action Alert to everybody you know who opposes amnesties for illegal aliens and who opposes the federal government forcing still more massive U.S. population growth. Include a personal note of introduction that urges people to register to send faxes and to do it immediately.
================== WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW (Thurs) ==================
The White House knows these amnesties are incredibly unpopular. Hence this latest attempt to attach the Section 245(i) amnesty to something that almost never gets voted down on the floor -- a supplemental spending bill.
About the only way to defeat something like this is in committee.
Our chief person on Capitol Hill was just this evening tipped off to the latest White House sneak attack to force an amnesty. A supplemental spending bill is ready to be "marked up" in the House Appropriations Committee as early as Thursday morning. The White House has managed to get the amnesty added to that.
We believe one of our allies on the committee will move to strip the amnesty and demand a roll call vote. You want to make sure that any member from your state knows how you want him/her to vote and that citizens are watching.
We have some hope that other business will delay the supplemental markup until Thursday afternoon or even later. We'll keep you informed. If you find the fax on the Fax Center, that means the issue is still live.
================== WHAT WE NEED TO HAPPEN ==================
We will plan that enough of you will see this Action Alert tonight so that the fax machines will be full of anti-245i faxes when the staff arrives Thursday morning -- and that the machine will just keep printing fax after fax all day.
================= WHAT IS AT STAKE =================
Re-instating Section 245(i) for four months -- as the White House has attempted repeatedly for 17 months -- would allow approximately a half-million illegal aliens to apply for a green card and (because of current INS policies) remain in the United States for the years until they are eligible to receive the green card.
Not only would this add 500,000 people to the permanent U.S. population, but history shows that it would entice millions more illegal aliens to move to the U.S. The ramifications are clear for urban sprawl, congestion, overcrowded schools, loss of environmental resources and wage depression for America's poorest workers.
===========================MORE BACKGROUND===========================
Although the President has had some success in getting this amnesty through the House in the past, it has always been in a special form or by a narrow margin that has made it difficult to pass in the Senate.
The White House pulled such a sneaky in March by attaching the amnesty to the very good visa-tracking bill. It passed by one vote after a furious effort on the part of all of you in opposing it. That close call emboldened some new allies in the Senate to threaten a filibuster if the same stunt were tried in the Senate. That worked; the visa tracking bill passed without an amnesty. Just today the visa-tracking bill went to the President for his signature -- without any amnesty!
-- ROY
What other country has it's leader taking the position that his citizens must leave and be taken in by another country? Fox is making Mexico look like a joke. He lacks real solutions, making your people leave isn't much of one.
Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY) is expected to offer two amendments at today's 5:00 P.M. House Appropriations markup. The first, as you know would permanently extend the Section 245(i) provision. The second amendment would effectively ban state and local law enforcement from helping the INS in any cases other than criminal law enforcement. In April, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that he wanted to enlist the aid of state and local police around the country to help with interior enforcement of immigration laws. However, Serrano is vehemently opposed to this idea and has said that he will do everything in his power to stop local police from apprehending illegal aliens.
Serrano recently said, "If immigrants, whatever their status, fear that any contact with the police can lead to probing questions and demands for proof of status, crimes will not be investigated and criminals will not be caught." Serrano is pushing this when federal authorities cannot locate over 300,000 illegal aliens with pending deportation orders and when between 9-11 million illegal aliens are residing in the U.S.
The committee will reconvene at 5 p.m. to continue debate on the Supplemental Appropriations bill. If you have not already done so, please call the House Appropriations Committee members and tell them you are opposed to both of Serrano's amendments. Please visit our Press Release for further information on state and local law enforcement. And visit our previous Action Alert for further information.
If Bush sneaks this through, he's through; recent polls be damned.
"[Proposition]187 is the last gasp of white America in California. And people say to me on the Senate floor when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs? And I tell my white colleagues, you're going to need them." -- Art Torres, Chair, California Democratic Party
This may be Bush's last gasp, too.
It could get interesting around here in a little while!!
I called 3 Congressman at noon, but missed the vote if it was on CSPAN?
HalleluYAH!! Thank God!
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