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245i Amnesty to be Attached to Supplemental Spending Bill?
email from NumbersUsa.com ^ | 5/7/02 | Roy Beck

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


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To: Brownie74
bump
61 posted on 05/09/2002 2:41:09 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: TomGuy
I agree. Rush is not focusing on any of the major issues facing the future of this country.
63 posted on 05/09/2002 3:07:36 PM PDT by blueriver
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To: TomGuy
I keep wondering why Rush Limbaugh hasn't been all over this issue

I have wondered the same thing. He never says a word about it, yet he is supposed to be a big voice for conservatism. Hmmmmm. Maybe we should all e-mail him and fax him and tell him that we think he has chickened out on this very important issue.

Dashole also needs to be freeped big time.

64 posted on 05/09/2002 3:07:53 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: Helix
Brilliant way to get this amnesty thing wrapped up. They all like voting for spending bills. LOL Gotta love Bush, good policy and he knows how to impliment it.
65 posted on 05/09/2002 3:09:42 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: janetgreen
Some families of illegals who died because of their stupidity and criminal acts are now suing us. Another reason why illegals should be kept out of the country and immediately deported.
67 posted on 05/09/2002 3:12:01 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Dante3
Some families of illegals who died because of their stupidity and criminal acts are now suing us.

I read about that, and I hope it's thrown out of the courts. Once something like this is allowed, there would be an avalanche of claims from lawbreakers trying to cash in. I am so disgusted with Jorge Bush for kissing up to Vicente Fox. I think it's Bush who is encouraging this kind of thing by his buddy-buddy routine with Mexico.

69 posted on 05/09/2002 3:17:31 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: janetgreen
I hate to say this, but I'm hoping the ole Byrd will come through again, find this sneaky provision, and refuse to allow it....for the second time. He came through before.

Sad when we have to rely on a Democrat to do the right thing when the "RINO?" President won't.
70 posted on 05/09/2002 3:20:10 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: FreedomSurge
Indeed. Another example is Loretta Sanchez. She beat Bob Dornan with the help of illegal votes.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

71 posted on 05/09/2002 3:22:50 PM PDT by wku man
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To: Helix
Dear W.; Don't even think of it!!!!
72 posted on 05/09/2002 3:24:42 PM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: Stoner
This may sound small, but to me this incident demonstrates how out of hand things are, in kind of an anecdotal way....

Today, I took the commuter train into Boston. In Brockton, a group of high school students got on the train. Some spoke English, some what sounded like a variety of other languages....but, no problem. They were nice, well behaved kids, enjoying a field trip.

Then, the teacher in charge started helping some of the students learn some phrases in a language they were unfamiliar with. (You know where this is going, don't you?) Yup, she was helping the English-speaking students learn Spanish phrases!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!! I mean, who could make this stuff up?

73 posted on 05/09/2002 3:30:13 PM PDT by grania
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To: SerpentDove
I am pinging you because I just read you say on another thread that Bush continues to disappoint you ... well, here's another one.

g

74 posted on 05/09/2002 3:38:22 PM PDT by Geezerette
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To: conserve-it
[WHATCHA GONNA DO?

WHEN HE PEES ON YOU!!!!]

They'll just swear it's raining. ahaha

75 posted on 05/09/2002 3:40:35 PM PDT by Twodees
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To: Twodees
I've posted this a couple times before:

If President Bush were to strip to the buff, paint himself orange, and publicly urinate on the Washington Monument, there would be no shortage of Freepers standing by to explain how well that works as a part of his 'deep strategy'

Thanks to you I will amend to:

If President Bush were to strip to the buff, paint himself orange, and publicly urinate on the Washington Monument, there would be no shortage of Freepers standing between him and the monument, rejoicing at the drought's end.

76 posted on 05/09/2002 3:55:10 PM PDT by Charlotte Corday
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To: Charlotte Corday
Funny, very funny!
77 posted on 05/09/2002 3:59:33 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: madfly; PRND21;ALL
My goodness! Thank you, madfly. : )

And (((Thank YOU)) to all who've cared enough to call and fax and BUMP.

Maybe I am naive, but I still believe we have a civic responsibility to ensure our legislators are aware of our positions. So I'd like to thank all who've responded, written or phoned. No matter what position you take on this issue.

Ignorance kills. Apathy consumes.

78 posted on 05/09/2002 4:33:01 PM PDT by Helix
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Call your congressman BUMP!
79 posted on 05/09/2002 4:47:53 PM PDT by bocephus
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To: Charlotte Corday
SERIOUS ROTFLMAO
80 posted on 05/09/2002 4:49:05 PM PDT by conserve-it
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