202-224-3121

CAPITOL SWITCH BOARD. CALL NOW. CALL OFTEN.
TODAY IS CRUCIAL
HERE’S A COPY OF THE BILL SO FAR.

Debate on cloture begins. Here’s a money quote about you from Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, R.,
“I’ll tell you one thing: the American public care about this issue. They know more about this issue oftentimes than politicians themselves know. And the American people for the last 40 years have had the right instincts. They want a lawful and fair immigration system, they do not want to end all immigration, they know we are a nation of immigrants, they believe in immigration; they want a system that works, that does not pull down the wages of working Americans, that furthers our economy, does not enhance the welfare state, and is lawful… They want the law enforced. It’s the politicians who have failed them consistently. And the politicians just like last year seem to be on the move. And their move is ‘we don’t want this bill on our floor long. The longer it stays here the more the people will get upset, the more they’re going to find out about it, the angrier they’ll get with us, and so we really don’t want them to know what’s in it. We’ll bring this new bill up, we’ll plop it down, vote it out this week and get it off our plate.'”

Sessions again on America’s immigration system:
“It is comprehensively broken, it is a lawless system. We arrest at the borders of the United States every year–hold your hat–1.1 million people. That’s because the word is out all over that we don’t enforce our laws, that you can come into our country unlawfully and get away with it.
…Now I have said in the last couple of years that when we make a proposal, someone comes up with an idea that will actually work to enforce our laws and end the lawlessness, that’s what gets objected to. If you come up with an idea that won’t work or will only have an incremental benefit, people are glad to pass it and say they did something on immigration.
…We’ve been passing bills that have loophole after loophole, gimmick after gimmick, impossibility after impossibility that have never worked. And I think that at the base in the Congress and the presidents they’ve not really wanted it to work.”
202 224 3121
This bill essentially says if you get here by hook or by crook you’re legal.
HERE’S HOW YOU GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR SENATOR. WHILE YOU’RE AT IT CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS. CALL THE CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD AND ASK FOR SENATORS WYDEN, SMITH, CANTWELL AND MURRAY. TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THE CLOTURE VOTE (TO ALLOW QUICK DEBATE AND VOTE ON THE AMNESTY BILL).

• An immediate amnesty for nearly all 12-20 million illegal aliens who will get legal status for residence and jobs (with the assurance of getting green cards no later than 13 years);
• Mandatory workplace verification and some extra enforcement to try to slow the flow of the next 12 million illegal aliens enticed by the amnesty;
• Tripling of the rate of chain migration of extended family from around 250,000 a year to around 750,000 a year for about a decade; and
• New flows of 400,000 temporary foreign workers each year, bringing their families and having anchor babies who will be given U.S. citizenship.

GET FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS AWFUL BILL FROM NUMBERS USA HERE, FROM F.A.I.R. HERE, FROM CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES HERE, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION STUDY WHICH SHOWS THE COST OF THIS KIND OF IMMIGRATION BILL WILL BE $2.5 TRILLION.

Also call your Congressman about the anchor baby bill. The following is from Numbers USA:
On April 19, Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) introduced H.R. 1940, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007, which would end the process of granting automatic birthright citizenship to the babies born in the United States to illegal aliens. Referred to as “anchor babies,” these children born in the United States are one of the most prominent causes of illegal immigration and, subsequently, excessive population expansion.

In its spring 2005 edition, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons cited that “[b]etween 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens… In 2003 in Stockton, California, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General Hospital’s maternity ward were anchor babies.”

These staggering figures only tell part of the story. Birthright citizenship incentivizes illegal immigration by making anchor babies eligible to sponsor their illegal alien mothers and other relatives once they turn 21. In addition, at present there is no formal policy that forbids DHS from deporting the illegal alien parents of a child born in the U.S. Yet in most cases, immigration officials habitually choose not to initiate removal proceedings, allowing the parents to remain in the U.S. illegally.

Perhaps more starkly, anchor babies draw benefits and services from taxpayer dollars. As the Journal article notes, “Anchor babies are citizens, and instantly qualify for public welfare aid…In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in California hospital maternity units cost $215 million and constituted 36 percent of all Medi-Cal births. Now they account for substantially more than half.” This is just one more incentive for illegal immigration. Not only can the baby serve as an “anchor” to pull a large number of extended family members into the country, but he/she also can rely on the public services and benefits of the United States. Fourteen Members of Congress are co-sponsors of H.R. 1940 and more are signing up every day.

Click here to send a fax to your U.S. Representative asking him/her to cosponsor H.R. 1940.