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Today I am beginning posts of specific contacts. You decide if the Reps are Sellouts or Patriots! I was surprise when compling this list that the sellout outnumbered the good by 2-1. So if concentrate on the contacts daily, it is more manageable.See if your critter has made the list?

Bill: H.R. 2702 Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
3rd distProposes: Limit the number of L-1 visas to 35,000 per year; eliminate blanket petitions; must be paid prevailing wage; cannot be hired during a strike or lockout; no displacement of U.S. workers 180 days before or after being hired and employee must have been employed for two years instead of the current six months.2.

Connecticut State Report Card:
Conn. Report Card

Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) 8th dist and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) 6th dist and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced their companion guestworker amnesty bills, H.R. 2899 and S. 1461, the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act.

Congressman Jim Kolbe - 8TH DISTRICT ARIZONA - Jim Kolbe's Border Initiatives

Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) has been working in Washington, D.C. to solve the immigration and border problems affecting our community.

Helping Border Hospitals
The FY02 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill provides $1.56 million for three border hospitals that are facing considerable strain on their budgets due to the uncompensated, everyday care they provide to illegal immigrants. In addition, $750,000 was included for the four border counties to assist in this matter.

Mitigating Environmental Damage from Illegal Immigrants Three appropriations bills that fund the Department of Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service included legislative language telling these federal agencies to coordinate their efforts to stop the increasing flow of illegal immigrations through our lands and to mitigate the environmental damage caused by the massive flow of illegal immigration.

Forward Deploying Helicopters to the Border The FYO2 Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary appropriations bill directs the Border Patrol to move helicopters closer to the border. In FY01, Congress directed the Border Patrol to complete negotiations to relocate Tucson sector helicopters closer to the border and therefore forward deploy resources.

Replacing Permanent Checkpoints with Roving Checkpoints The FYO2 Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary appropriations bill continues to prohibit the Border Patrol from spending money on permanent checkpoints in the Tucson sector. A permanent checkpoint strategy is not the most effective use of resources -- if it's permanent, then everyone knows where the checkpoint is and they just go around it. Similar language was included in the last three fiscal year appropriations Acts and has been strengthened this year to ensure that the Border Patrol does not try to circumvent the intent of the law.

Assisting State and Local Law Enforcement
$50 million is provided for assistance to state and local prosecutors located along the Southwest Border. This funding will provide Arizona financial assistance for costs associated with handling and processing illegal immigration and drug smuggling cases.

$565 million is provided for state and localities to pay for prison costs of undocumented aliens that cannot be held in federal detention centers due to over capacity. The federal government must assist local law enforcement absorb the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants.

Border Truck Safety and Improvements
$56.3 million is provided for border infrastructure improvements.
$18 million is provided for Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to hire border truck safety inspectors.

Federal Funding
Fiscal Year 2002 ($1.74 Billion)
$1.56 million for three border hospitals that are facing considerable strain on their budgets due to the uncompensated, everyday care they provide to illegal immigrants.
$750,000 for the four border counties to assist in uncompensated, everyday care hospitals provide to illegal immigrants.
$50 million for assistance to state and local prosecutors located along the Southwest Border, including the integration and automation of court management systems. $565 million is provided for state and localities to pay for prison costs of undocumented aliens that cannot be held in federal detention centers due to over capacity. The federal government must assist local law enforcement absorb the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants. $56.3 million is provided for border infrastructure improvements.

$18 million is provided for Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to hire border truck safety inspectors. $399.7 million for the Customs Service for increased border inspections and other counter-terror activities, which includes not less than $10 million for the Southwest border.

$33.151 million for Customs border inspection technology. $549.4 million for the Immigration and Naturalization Service for an increased border presence at the Northern and Southwestern borders and counter-terrorism initiatives.

Ariz Report Card

Rep. Flake - Immigration and Claims Subcommittee
H.R.655 : To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related purpose a State-issued driver's license, or other comparable identification document, unless the State requires a license or comparable document issued to a nonimmigrant alien to expire upon the expiration of the alien's authorized period of stay in the United States, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] (introduced 2/7/2003)
Cosponsors: 25
Committees: House Government Reform; House Judiciary Latest Major Action: 5/5/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

H.R.3218 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify that willful failure to depart from the United States by an alien against whom a final order of removal is outstanding is a continuing criminal offense, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] (introduced 10/1/2003)
Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 10/1/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

H.AMDT.375 to H.R.2989 Amendment prohibits any funds in the bill from being used to enforce regulations that restrict United States citizens from traveling to Cuba. Sponsor: Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] (introduced 9/9/2003)

Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 9/9/2003 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Flake amendment (A022) Agreed to by recorded vote: 227 - 188 (Roll no. 483).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Thursday, July 24, 2003 - Contact: Maura Saavedra, (602) 252-2653
Flake sponsored this:
WHO:
Organized by U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., with support from Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) and more than 50 community volunteers.

NOTE: CONGRESSMAN PASTOR IS NOT EXPECTED TO ATTEND BECAUSE CONGRESS MAY REMAIN IN SESSION OVER THE WEEKEND.
WHAT:
As part of National Citizenship Day, a national effort launched in June by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a naturalization workshop will be held by the office of Congressman Ed Pastor. Volunteers will assist 200 eligible permanent residents in completing their U.S. citizenship applications. Photography services also will be provided. When participants leave, they will have their applications for citizenship ready to submit to the BCIS.

WHEN/WHERE:
Saturday, July 26, 2003, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Laborers' Local Union No. 383 Auditorium, 512 W. Adams St., Phoenix. (Use east entrance on 5th Avenue).

WHY:
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are holding naturalization workshops throughout the country in their respective districts to encourage eligible permanent residents to apply for their U.S. citizenship and embrace the benefits that come along with U.S. citizenship. Many permanent residents have not applied for U.S. citizenship because they are intimidated or overwhelmed by the application process, and this workshop will help ease the process by providing trained volunteers who will help participants complete the application and answer their questions.

So please contact:
Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Rep Jim Kolbe
Rep Flake

Tell them how YOU feel about illegal immigration and rights!

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