Senate Uses Iraq War Spending Bill to Advance Illegal Alien Amnesty...

BIG BIG ISSUE…

You’re not going to believe this… but I hope you hear this and I hope you get really pissed off when I tell you.





Keep in mind… we still have a little bit of time here… but it’s only because the House of Representatives unexpectedly delayed the Iraq supplemental spending Bill Thursday, the full Senate won't be allowed to vote on the amnesty bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee unexpectedly took up and approved Thursday and attached to it.





If you didn’t catch that… I’ll spell it out. There is an AMNESTY Bill attached to an IRAQ spending bill. So in order to fund our troops and their safety… Feinstein wants to trade that for Criminal Amnesty.





It now looks like the full Senate won't be allowed to vote on the amnesty for around 1.3 million illegal alien ag workers (plus their families) until next Wednesday.





That gives us some time to beat this atrocity.





This bill is sick and really does about four things.





- Grant a three-year work visa followed by a permanent green-card 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.





And the worst part about the whole thing is that we’ve told Congress that WE DON’T WANT CRIMINAL AMNESTY IN ANY FASHION.





Here’s what it takes to qualify.





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.





Call the offices of both of your state's U.S. Senators and tell them:



• The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon committed an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by attaching an illegal-alien amnesty to the Iraq spending bill.





• Urge the Senator to vote and work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq spending bill on the floor.





• You - or the Senator - may already oppose this spending bill. But if the Senator is inclined to vote YES on the Iraq bill, ask the Senator to definitely vote NO and send it back to committee if the amnesty is NOT stripped.





• There is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There already is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just trying to protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that farm-workers labor under.





We don’t want AMNESTY… We don’t want the NAU…





This makes me sick.



SEE STORY BELOW...



Senate Uses Iraq War Spending Bill to Advance Illegal Alien Amnesty and Cheap Labor for Employers



WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/



A supplemental appropriations bill intended to provide funding for the war effort in Iraq is being used to promote amnesty for illegal aliens and more low-wage guest workers for powerful business interests. The addition of two amendments to the Iraq War Supplemental Appropriations bill will mean that in order to provide emergency funding for our troops in Iraq, senators will be forced to approve an illegal alien amnesty and expand guest worker programs that harm American workers.





The Senate Appropriations Committee today included an amendment offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would grant a five-year amnesty to 1.35 million illegal aliens working in agriculture, plus their spouses and children, and allow agribusiness to freeze wages for new guest workers at 2007 levels for the next three years. The five-year amnesty would likely be a prelude to permanent legalization for these illegal aliens.





A second amendment adopted by the committee, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), would vastly increase the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers permitted to work in this country. The Mikulski amendment would reinstate the exemption for returning H-2B workers from numerical caps on the program.





"What we witnessed today in the Senate Appropriations Committee is a cynical attempt to use Americans' support for our men and women in Iraq to advance blatant special interest legislation that benefits powerful business lobbies," charged Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "Tying amnesty for illegal aliens and still more cheap labor for powerful business interests to support for our troops in Iraq is an unconscionable abuse of the appropriations process."





The American public has repeatedly rejected the idea of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and has adamantly opposed increases in guest worker programs that undermine American workers - especially in difficult economic times.





"It is always inappropriate for Congress to sneak unrelated and unpopular legislation past the American public by attaching it to other bills, especially appropriations measures," said Stein. "But to choose this particular bill - the one that pays to maintain our military personnel who are fighting overseas - demonstrates the lengths that this Congress will go to satisfy the demands of big money interests."





FAIR is calling upon the full Senate to strip these two amendments from the bill before putting it to a vote. "The U.S. economy has been shedding jobs at an alarming rate over the past several months. There is no justification whatsoever for this sort of massive amnesty and increase in foreign guest workers," concluded Stein.



We need phone calls into the offices of members of the Senate Appropriations Committee — massively and immediately!

202-224-3121



If you live in the state of one of these Senators, please make a phone call immediately.



If you don’t have a Senator on the Committee, you may want to call a Senator in another state with which you have some attachment. We particularly need extra phone calls to Senators from small-population states.



Here are the Appropriations Senators who need your call:



Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Allard (R-Colo.)
Byrd (D-West Va.)
Bennett (R-Utah)
Bond (R-Mo.)
Brownback (R-Kan.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Craig (R-Idaho)
Domenici (R-N.M.)
Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Durbin (D-Ill.)
Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Harkin (D-Iowa)
Hutchison (R-Texas)
Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Johnson (D-S.D.)
Kohl (D-Wis.)
Landrieu (D-La.)
Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Leahy (D-Vt.)
McConnell (R-Ky.)
Mikulski (D-Md.)
Murray (D-Wash)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Reed (D-R.I.)
Shelby (R-Ala.)
Specter (R-Pa.)
Stevens (R-Alaska)





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