Just Say No To Amnesty Campaign - Fax to Ask Sen. Feinstein to take heart

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Just Say No To Amnesty Campaign: Ask Sen. Feinstein to take heart

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On April 18, Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chair of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, issued a press release calling on California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a "swing" Senator to "oppose any amnesty plan when the Senate comes back into session, next week."

Just prior to Congress' Easter recess, the Senate failed to pass its immigration reform bill containing a massive amnesty-guestworker bill. Under consideration were two proposals. One was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and crafted by its chair, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). The Specter proposal would reward illegal aliens with amnesty and add 30 million foreign workers and their dependents over the next decade. The other proposal, S. 2454, was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. S. 2454 would add 20 million foreign workers and their dependents over the next year. It would double the annual allotment of greencards. At this point it is unclear whether or not one of these immigration bills will be brought to the Senate floor again, but Sen. Feinstein has been targeted as one of the "swing" Senators who could vote either way on this issue. That is why it is especially important that Sen. Feinstein hear from her constituents who oppose amnesty-guestworker and increases in overall immigration.

Send this fax to Sen. Feinstein commenting on her immigration voting record and asking her to heed Rep. Tancredo's warning to "Say NO To Amnesty."

Rep. Tancredo's press release follows.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Will Adams
April 18, 2006
202.226.6997

Tancredo Calls on Sen. Feinstein to Oppose Amnesty

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the 96-member House Immigration Reform Caucus, called on Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to oppose any amnesty plan when the Senate comes back into session, next week.

Tancredo wrote to Feinstein: "You are one of the swing Senators who could tip the balance towards either enforcement-first or amnesty. I ask that you make the following pledge to the people of California: You will only support an enforcement bill that secures our borders and enforces the law. You will not support a bill that includes amnesty for illegal aliens or a new foreign worker plan."

The letter is reprinted below:

Dear Senator Feinstein:

As you are well aware, the Senate is considering fixing our broken borders and bringing back order to our dysfunctional immigration system. It is hard to think of a more pressing issue facing our country-massive illegal immigration affects our national and economic security, and it goes to the heart of who we are as Americans. As a Senator from a border state, you know firsthand the hardship illegal immigration brings to border communities and to those being smuggled into the U.S.

A bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives passed a get-tough border security bill a few months ago. Among other things, the bill calls for the construction of a security fence along our southern border, requires federal and local law enforcement to cooperate on immigration matters, and mandates that employers use an instant check system to verify their employees' legal status. It offers no amnesty and no new foreign worker plan.

One of the Senate's leading proposals, the Hagel-Martinez bill, takes a much different approach from the House. It offers nearly universal amnesty to the 12 million or more illegal aliens living in the U.S., doubles legal immigration overnight, and offers miniscule border security. Hagel-Martinez is dead on arrival in the House and, if it passes the Senate, would mean that no border security measure would get to the President's desk this year. A competing plan proposed by Senator Frist - while in need of significant improvement - does not offer amnesty, and might provide a way forward.

Senator Feinstein, your views on border security are difficult to decipher. Just a couple of months ago, you told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I do not believe you can have a guest worker come for three years, renew it for another three years, bring their family, settle in, put children in schools, and then they're going to turn around and go back at the end of six years? It doesn't happen." You continued, "There are plenty of American workers who want to work in hotels or construction or anywhere else. And I don't think they should be replaced with foreign guest workers."

Yet you reversed course and supported an agricultural foreign worker plan in the Senate Judiciary Committee's bill, and you joined with many of your Democrat colleagues to block an up-or-down vote on Frist's enforcement bill. Californians know that rewarding law breakers only encourages more law breaking. They know that it makes more sense to go after employers who hire illegal aliens than to reward rogue employers with yet another foreign worker plan.

You are one of the swing Senators who could tip the balance towards either enforcement-first or amnesty. I ask that you make the following pledge to the people of California: You will only support an enforcement bill that secures our borders and enforces the law. You will not support a bill that includes amnesty for illegal aliens or a new foreign worker plan.

I have dedicated much of my career to securing America's borders and stopping the massive flow of illegal aliens. I look forward to hearing whether you will join me in standing up for America's security and our workers.

Respectfully,

Tom Tancredo
Chairman
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus

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